A clever, unique and thought-provoking memoir by actor and ad man Mathew McConaughey. SUMMARY Greenlights, according to actor and author Matthew McConaughey is his love letter to life. He has been keeping diaries for over thirty-five years. He says the diaries contained “notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How

A entertaining and enlightening historical fiction novel full of tragedy and hopefulness. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel are abandoned by their family at a young age. Nuns at the orphanage are preparing them to lead simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. But the sisters are not content with what the nuns tell them they will be. They wanted something more ...something better. When they are finally old enough, the Chanel sisters set out

Nicholas Sparks A delightful fast read and essential reading for Nicholas Sparks fans. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast sent him home from Afghanistan, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Trevor is not looking for love, but he fall head over heels with a local deputy sheriff. Natalie Masterson seems to reciprocate his feelings, but she

By Hazel Gaynor An evocative historical fiction novel of courage, resourcefulness and friendships during the most traumatic of times. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Elsbeth Kent is a teacher at the Chefoo School, a missionary school in northern China and but is anxious to return home to England. But as she prepares to turn in her resignation, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those children in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer, is a British student

Dublin Murders Squad #3 Brilliantly Plotted and Full of Atmosphere ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY What happened to Rosie Daly? Teenagers, Frank and Rosie have been planning to run away together to London for months. The haven’t told anyone of their elopement plans. On the magically night of their planned departure, Frank is left waiting on a neighborhood street corner for hours with his rucksack at the top of Faithful Place. Rosie never showed up. He finds a note inside a nearby old cond

An amazing psychological thriller with descriptive writing and well-developed characters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Rob Ryan is a detective with the murder-squad in Dublin, Ireland. Only a handful of people know that Ryan himself was at the center of one of the most perplexing unsolved cases in recent Irish history. At the age of 12 then known as Adam Ryan, he and two playmates wandered into the woods near his home in the town of Knocknaree to play. Hours after being reported missing

A compelling journey though the life-choices of racial identity and the consequences paid. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Desiree and Stella Vignes will always be identical twins, no matter what. They grew up inseparable in the fiction town of Mallard, Louisiana, a small, southern community exclusively founded for light-skinned blacks. At sixteen, the girls ran away from home together to New Orleans, and not long after they separated. Ten years later, one sister lives with her very-black d

Women’s Murder Club #20 By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro Hold on tight it’s a breathless roller coaster ride of a book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Sergeant Lindsey Boxer catches the lead in the case of a lifetime. Mysterious murders are piling up in a San Francisco, L.A. and Chicago. All victims executed with uncanny precision and all seemingly linked to drug dealing. It’s can’t possible be one person responsible for all the murders at the same time so what is happening here? San F

By Wendy Walker A chilling but spellbinding story of a mother-daughter relationship ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY A storm is coming and Molly Clarke is stuck between two places, her tragic past and her future. She has run out of gas in the middle of nowhere and has no where to turn. She is depressed and racked with guilt over the death of Annie, her nine year-old blue-eyed blond hair daughter. Molly contemplates taking this opportunity to walk away from her family and her old life. It wou

Each character is powerfully drawn and the story they tell us is poignant. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented eighteen-year-old biracial son, Xavier, in the established and gentrified neighborhood of Oak Knoll in North Carolina. Valerie is a professor of Forestry and ecology, and her she loves and cares for her yard almost as much as her son, particularly her eighty foot historic oak tree in the backyard. Brad Whitman, a beloved local busi

Ryan DeMarco Mystery #4 An absolute must read for lover’s of the Ryan DeMaro series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Former State Trooper Jayme Matson and Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco are spending some quiet time recovering from some recent cases and the loss of their unborn child. But the door bell rings and once again the two are dragged into another case. Two bodies are discovered in a smoldering car in the Pennsylvania woods, and another body is found brutally impaled to a tree nearby.

A timely and dynamic story full of twists and turns. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Pharminex, is a pharmaceutical company owned by the powerful and wealthy Vanderwald family. The company president Winton Trevor Vanderwald, Jr, is soon to be awarded the Massachusetts Medical Science Association’s Humanitarian of the Year award for his continuing and generous contributions to science and medicine. A huge gala will also be held to raise money for a scholarship in honor of the Vanderwald’s dece

A tight and twisty domestic drama that will leave you speechless. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Piper Reynard is new in the town of Westport, Connecticut. She just moved from the West coast. She has opened a rehab and wellness space and joined a local yacht club. Now she is looking for a relationship and has set her sights on Leo Drakos, a handsome, successful lawyer, with a wedding ring. But that doesn’t stop Piper. She’s been down that road before. At home, Joanna has been waiting pati

A story as suspenseful, beautiful and breathtaking as those first remarkable flights into the sky. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Janey Everett is a photographer and war correspondent in 1947. She is on a mission to write a biography of the forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Janey is in Hawaii to track down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might really be the le

A captivating historical fiction story full of bravery and resilience. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Eva Traube was forced to flee Paris in 1942 with her mother after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. She finds a refuge in a church in a small mountain town in the Free Zone. There she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to Switzerland. In erasing these children’s identity Eva knows she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are perh

A dark and haunting novel of a woman on the edge of reality. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body” A seventy-two year old widow finds this sinister note on her morning walk through the birch trees near her cabin. It was written in blue ink on a page of lined paper from a spiral notebook and was weighted down by black rocks. There is no body, but our narrator, Vesta is shaken and determined to create a pe

A Riveting Race to Find a Seasonal Serial Killer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Another spring, and another dead girl is pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills. She is the latest victim in a series of murders with very few leads. But Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, finally land a break when they receive a tip about a previously unknown survivor of the so-called Spring Strangler. The survivor is fearful and very reluctant to help with the case. Geena uncover

A clever and consuming story of Crosby Lake and the many secrets it holds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY When Charlotte, who grew up in a trailer park, married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small North Carolina lakeside town. Despite the whispers their life is good, and with some recent news, maybe even great. Everything starts to unravel when Charlotte discovers a young woman’s body floating in the exact same spot where Paul’s first wife, an avid s

An emotional and timely story of choosing love and joy. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family. She has a passion and joy for living. Duncan Carpenter is the new school principal who lives by the rules and is guided by the knowledge that bad things can happen. Sam knew Duncan before—at another school, in a different life. Back then, she had a huge crush on him. But she was invisible to him then, he never noticed

Immensely Satisfying with a Atmosphere Full of Tension and Angst. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY It’s Livia’s 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Everyone she loves will be there, except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But Livia is secretly glad Marnie won’t be there. She is very mad at her. Livia has recently uncovered a secret about their daughter which, if revealed, will shake the foundation o