#Staff Picks

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the book cover for find me by alfaf burke, with an open window
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A Manhattan defense lawyer searches for her missing best friend, a person who never recovered from amnesia after an accident, with the help of a homicide detective who thinks the disappearance might be related to a cold case.
Returning with her mother to her parents’ North Fork Long Island winery, college-age Sadie discovers that her Grandma Vivian once ran a “trashy” book club and decides to reinstate it as a way to reconnect the family. The Summer I Turned Pretty Book Pdf, Beach Read Emily Henry Book Cover, Jamie Begley Books, Beach Read Emily Henry Pdf, Best Beach Reads, Jackie Collins, James Joyce Dubliners Book Pdf, Womens Fiction, Beach Reading
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Returning with her mother to her parents’ North Fork Long Island winery, college-age Sadie discovers that her Grandma Vivian once ran a “trashy” book club and decides to reinstate it as a way to reconnect the family.
a person sitting on a couch with a record in front of their face and the title mary jane
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Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for--which happens to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.
the personal librarian by marie benedict, victoria christopherie murray book review and giveaway
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Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle de Costa Greene becomes one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she keeps.
the book cover for the mystery of mrs christie by marie benedict
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Claiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war-hero husband.
the cover of martha beck's book, the way of integity finding the path to your true self
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The best-selling author and life coach draws inspiration from Dante’s classic hero’s journey as depicted in The Divine Comedy to outline a four-stage process for using integrity and purpose for emotional healing and relief from suffering.
the book cover for the scent keeper by erica bauermeisterer is shown
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Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find our way back home.
a book cover for find you first by linwood barclay
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Searching for the children he has never known, tech billionaire Miles Cookson, diagnosed with a terminal illness, discovers that, one by one, his potential heirs are vanishing – every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all.
the cover of please on love by falon ballard, featuring a woman with flowers in her hair
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When, after one drink too many, she mixes up a dating app with a roommate-finding app, Sadie ends up renting a room in Jack Thomas’s brownstone where she, while pursuing her floristry side hustle, realizes she has found a home with this man who is her polar opposite.
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits. A Man Called Ove, Pitch Perfect, Popsugar, Real Simple, Beach Reading, Penguin Books, Navy Seals, Book Release, Reading Lists
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
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the fixer upper by mary kay andrews
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After the boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow.
the cover to amari and the night brothers by b b alston, with an image of a woman holding a crystal ball
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Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
the book cover for the soul of a woman
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The author describes her lifelong commitment to feminism in a meditation on what it means to be a woman, discussing progress within the movement in her lifetime, what remains to be done, and how to move forward in the future.
the strange in the life boat by mitch albom
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After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.
the book cover for the next person you meet in heaven by mitch albom
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Fifteen years after Eddie died saving a little girl named Annie, Annie suffers a terrible accident and finds herself reunited with Eddie, one of the five people who will show her how her life mattered in ways she never considered.