By Anna Quinlen AN INTRIGUING STORY OF FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIPS     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Book clubs are great!   High school English teacher Polly Goodman talks about everything with her book club, except the book. They’re her closest friends and, with her veterinarian husband, her support system. Her students, her relationship with her mother, and her IVF struggles have all been shared with her book club. When the book club gives Polly an ancestry test as a joke, the results surpr

By Libby Page A Delightful and Captivating Story ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY When Tilly Nightingale receives a call about a birthday gift from her husband at her local bookshop, it's a shock. Joe had died five months ago, and she hadn’t read for pleasure ever since he got sick. Alfie, the bookshop owner, explains the gift—one book each month with a handwritten letter from Joe for the next twelve months. Though hesitant, Tilly begins reading Joe’s letters, and she immerses herself in t

By Jennifer Moorman A DELIGHTFUL MAGICAL REALISM STORY ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY All libraries are magic, and some libraries are more magical than others.  The public library in Blue Sky Valley, North Carolina, is in the latter category.  Stella Parker is an assistant librarian who is unaware of her library’s special magic, but she soon discovers strange characters in the library after hours. One of the characters is Jack Mathis, the main character from her favorite book. Stella finds

By A.D. Bell A CAPTIVATING STORY OF DETERMINATION   ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Lily  Delaney is a bookbinder apprentice in Oxford in 1901, and feels confined by her father’s failing bookshop and her status as a woman in a man’s profession. During a visit to a collector, she finds a burned book with a hidden fifty-year-old love letter. She becomes obsessed with the mystery of the young lovers and finds more hidden pages. As she searches through London’s booksellers, private libraries,