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Posted by JGranatino on Wed, May 27
Mickey is a patrol cop in a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis. Her usual run-ins consist of drug dealers and sex workers. Also on the streets she patrols is her younger sister, Kacey, whose addiction to drugs tore the sisters apart years ago. They no longer speak but keep tabs on each other as their paths repeatedly cross. But when Kacey goes missing, at the same time a dangerous serial killer is on the loose, Mickey can’t help but get involved and becomes obsessed with...
Posted by BHanley on Fri, May 22
Mystery & Thriller Book Discussion Group met virtually via Zoom on Wednesday, May 20. There were 10 titles recommended by readers. Visit eZone to find a copy of available titles.
The Better Liar by Tanen Jones
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3) by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Eight Perfect Murders...
Posted by JGranatino on Fri, May 22
Emira Tucker is 25 and juggling two jobs as she struggles to pay rent, keep her healthcare, and figure out what she wants to do with her life. Alix Chamberlain is a wealthy white blogger and minor social media celebrity who battles doubts and insecurities, all while on the surface maintaining a facade that she has everything she ever wanted. When Alix hires Emira to babysit her eldest daughter, Briar, neither woman thought anything about their employer-employee relationship.
But when Emira is...
Posted by BHanley on Mon, May 18
Tea & Book Chat: Virtual Book Discussion was held on Monday, May 18. There were 10 titles recommended by readers. Visit eZone to find a copy of available titles.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam...
Posted by JGranatino on Thu, May 14
Set in the 1970s in Odessa, Texas, a small town on the cusp of the next big oil boom, Valentine explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime perpetrated against a young girl.
On the morning of February 15, 1976, Mary Rose Whitehead hears a knock on her front door. She opens it to discover a badly beaten young girl named Gloria "Glory" Ramírez. Before Mary Rose can figure out what to do, the man who attacked Glory comes driving down the road to her house. What follows is a tension...
Posted by BHanley on Wed, May 06
Tea & Book Chat: Virtual Book Discussion was held on Monday, May 4. There were 13 titles recommended by readers. Visit eZone to find a copy of available titles.
Bloom by Kevin Panetta and illustrated by Savanna Ganucheau
Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson*
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Last Seen by J. L. Doucette
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Miss...
Posted by JGranatino on Tue, May 05
On a day too much like all the other days, Margery Benson snapped when a cartoon depicting her as a frumpy matron hit too close to home. Unable to get any support from her fellow teachers, she quit and stormed out, taking the PE teacher’s boots on the way. Facing humiliation and possible legal action for her petty theft, she decided the time was right to pursue her dream – discovering the elusive gold beetle of New Caledonia, a legend her father told her about when she was a little girl. She...
Posted by JGranatino on Tue, Apr 28
Ten years ago, Maya Seale found herself in the middle of the controversial trial of Bobby Nock, an African American high school teacher accused of killing one of his students, fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune. Maya believed he was innocent and, one by one, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty, a decision that will change all their lives forever.
Now, a true-crime docuseries reassembles the jurors with particular...
Posted by BHanley on Thu, Apr 23
Tea & Book Chat: Virtual Book Discussion was held on Monday, April 20. There were 12 titles recommended by readers. Visit eZone to find a copy of available titles.
The Absolutist by John Boyne*
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Hamlet’s Mill by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
Mrs. by Caitlin Macy
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
Thirteen by Steve...
Posted by JGranatino on Wed, Apr 22
Alexis, an ER doctor, is on a vacation trip with her cycling enthusiast boyfriend Austin in Vietnam. While she lounges beside the pool, he sets off on an extended solo ride, presumably to pay homage to his uncle, killed in the Vietnam War, and his father, who was seriously wounded during the conflict. Hours pass, and Alexis has had no word from Austin although she has texted him several times. Soon the Vietnamese police, the FBI and the State Department are combing the hills for any sign of him...
