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The Consequences of Freedom Author: Susan Wiggs Jessie Ryder has lived a life free of repercussions until now. She has followed her dreams, her career as a photojournalist, leaving family and friends and lovers behind, living for the moment, un-tethered. All that is coming to a necessary end now, her own body rebelling against her. Now she is thinking, regretting, looking back over her life, and crashing into the settled lives of those around her. Sixteen years ago, Jessie gave up a child and her devoted sister, Luz, gave up her own dreams in order to adopt and raise that child. [...]

2022-07-26T09:29:35-07:00July 3rd, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Christmas Shopaholic

Becky Hosts Christmas Author: Sophie Kinsella Christmas is the season of tradition – carols and cozy events with friends and family. And Christmas is also Becky’s mom’s specialty. However, when Becky’s parents decide it’s time to get hip, leave the area, and discover avocado toast and the high life in trendy Shoreditch, the yearly hosting of the festive season falls to Becky, and she’s not ready. From accidentally ordering over thirty pounds of salmon to finding the perfect gift for her husband, to making her environmentally staunch sister happy with both a vegan turkey and a lack of polluting gifts, the [...]

2022-07-26T09:30:59-07:00June 28th, 2022|Tags: , , |

Come With Me

Grief, Ghosts, and The Trail of a Killer Author: Ronald Malfi Do you ever really know anyone? The question has subsumed Aaron Decker’s life. After his wife’s murder, Aaron begins to uncover a darkness about her, a secretiveness. In Come with Me it starts with a leftover receipt from a motel they never went to and culminates in the hidden files (and the gun) she kept in their closet. Who was Allison, really, and what did she know? What was she ultimately capable of doing? Beset by a haunting grief and the actual ghost of his wife, Aaron stumbles onto something [...]

2022-07-26T09:32:40-07:00June 24th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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