Not Just Another Book on Our Shelf
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The Faraway World is a collection of ten rich, engaging, compelling short stories about the immigrant’s experience. It explores the connections/separation in a disconnected world from one’s emotions and identity with their homeland and culture. Universal themes of relationships, love, friendship, trust/betrayal, regret, belonging/acceptance, fear/hopes, grief, trauma, and class, are woven in. “Sometimes love hits…
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Now that is my kind of romance story, and I loved everything about it. Romance is really dead here. Ashley Poston shows us a different side to romance, the more practical side, the kind that isn’t all about being charming, sweet, enduring, and perfect, making this the ideal romance for this non-romantic. What is going…
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I wasn’t expecting to love the story as much as I did. Em is a little gem of a book packed will so much emotion. After only a few pages, my heart stopped for a minute as I took in the beauty of the words I was reading. Then I felt a rush of excitement,…
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Want to meet characters you’ll never forget? Read this book. Want to open your mind and heart and challenge your thoughts and preconceived judgements? Read this book. Want to explore current, relevant, important worldly topics to educate yourself and challenge bias? Read this book. Want to feel something and be forever changed? Read this book~Lindsay…
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Well, Hot Diggity Dang!! It’s been a while since I read a thriller that had me shouting that after reading it and wanting to share my excitement about it. I read only two thrillers in 2022 that evoked that reaction in me. I finished the year with one and read the other a bit back.…
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The Beartown series is perfect to start or catch up on those long winter days and nights. Fredrik Backman wraps up his big-hearted emotional Beartown series in The Winners. So much has happened to the people of Beartown, from the first book to the last. Tragedy after tragedy is a recurring theme with humor and…
Witch Words 