BLOG & STAFF PICKS

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Brooke's Pick: Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

Liv Reese, waking up holding a bloodstained knife and her hands covered in scribbled messages, remembers nothing from the past two years...

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Brooke

Jul 112 min read

Brooke's Pick: Sunrise On the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

It's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, but...

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Brooke

Jun 62 min read

Brooke's Pick: Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen

Including a readers guide and exclusive vintage Barbie photos, a bold new novel shows how Ruth Handler, along with head engineer Jack...

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Brooke

Jun 42 min read

Brooke's Pick: Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee

A new mom reinvents herself and finds her happily-ever-after in this heart-filled romance about family, second chances, and growing into...

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Brooke

Jan 312 min read

Katina's Pick: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the...

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Katina

Jan 312 min read

Brooke's Pick: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

Leaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop as the Harlem Renaissance swirls...

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Brooke

Jan 152 min read

Brooke's Pick: Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up...

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Brooke

Jan 142 min read

Brooke's Pick: Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle

Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it--the exact amount of time they will...

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Brooke

Jan 132 min read

Brittany's Pick: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an...

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Brittany

Aug 30, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird

Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, where housewives and movie stars rubbed shoulders at gin-soaked casinos, The...

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Brooke

Jun 27, 20243 min read

Crystal's Pick: The Women by Kristin Hannah

In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words "Women can be heroes, too," impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and...

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Crystal

Jun 18, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover

The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping...

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Brooke

May 20, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa

A young woman with a rare neurological condition is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered. Armando Lucas Correa's new novel The...

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Brooke

Feb 1, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Good Part by Sophie Cousens

When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and...

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Brooke

Jan 25, 20242 min read

Van's Pick: Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine,...

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Van

Jan 24, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner

When her wish to redo her awful year comes true, Sadie Thatcher, with her life in shambles, navigates her second chance, seeing the red...

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Brooke

Jan 9, 20242 min read

Katina's Pick: The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

Tells the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and...

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Katina

Oct 3, 20232 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop

Thinking back on a relationship she had with an older man during a life-changing summer in the Greek isles, Rachel begins the question...

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Brooke

Aug 24, 20232 min read

Crystal's Pick: Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas

In 1916 Wallace, Wyoming, schoolteacher Ellen Webster finds purpose in her work as a rancher's wife and in her bonds with other women...

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Crystal

Jun 20, 20232 min read

Brooke's Pick: Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan

A former child star fights the conservatorship that is governing every aspect in her life and uses social media to help in the new novel...

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Brooke

May 18, 20233 min read