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Apples Never Fall

When Dreams Die Author: Liana Moriarty I recently discovered, and fell in love with, Liane Moriarty. She has a way of stepping into normal life situations and unraveling the yearnings and failings of the heart, peeling back the layers of pretense to reveal the raw heart of a character. In Apples Never Fall, Stan and Joy appear to have the perfect marriage, at least to those on the outside. Before retiring, they ran a successful tennis academy. Tennis – the battling on the courts, the challenges and last-minute skill-defying successes, the dreams of Wimbledon – shaped their lives and dreams and [...]

2024-12-08T15:13:49-07:00December 8th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Classic in the Barn

Classic Cars and Crazy Crimes Author: Amy Myers Jack Colby runs a forever-in-the-red car restoring business, a leftover from his father’s heyday. To make ends meet and keep his shady competitors from buying him out, Jack also does some work on cold-car cases, mostly by helping the police track car theft rings. One day, as he is going about business, he runs into a 1938 Lagonda V12, hidden in a country barn. Overwhelmed with car love, he jumps a fence, does a little trespassing, and is just inspecting the forlorn beauty with her sad headlights when the enraged owner shows up [...]

2024-12-07T15:16:08-07:00December 7th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The Scent of Young Womanhood Author: Patrick Suskind Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born into filth, unwanted. His mother was executed for attempting to kill him. Grenouille was passed from one church to another, one nurse to another, but everyone found something about him, even as a child, that was unsettling, wrong. The infant had no smell, and this was, they felt, a harbinger of something altogether inhuman. Something other and twisted. They were not wrong. While Grenouille has no scent of his own, he has a powerful gift. He can decipher and catalog odors in a way that no other can. Odors [...]

2024-12-02T14:08:48-07:00December 2nd, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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