the setup… Kerry Tolliver is a graphic artist who recently lost her job after her company was acquired. She returned to her family home in Tarburton, North Carolina to try and figure out what was next, especially after her relationship also fizzled out. Her family runs a Fraser fir Christmas tree farm and it’s now… Continue reading Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews @mkayandrews #KathleenMcInerney @MacmillanAudio
the setup… Hattie Coleman and her husband Brent took the plunge a few years ago and became the owners and managers of the Maple Sugar Inn in Vermont, a dream he had hoped to become a reality. But two years ago, he died in a freak accident and now Hattie is left to manage things… Continue reading The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan @SarahMorgan @dararosenberg27 @HarlequinBooks @librofm
the setup… Talulah Barclay returns to Coyote Canyon, Montana fourteen years after having left her fiancé at the altar. She’s there to settle her recently deceased great Aunt Phoebe’s estate and is anticipating a less than warm reception. She’s right about that but her ex’s best friend Brant Elway extends her some kindness at the… Continue reading Talulah’s Back in Town by Brenda Novak @Brenda_Novak @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Harold Fry recently retired and is living with his wife Maureen in Kingsbridge, England. He’s lived an unremarkable life and the distance between him and Maureen continues to broaden now that he’s home full time. Then an indistinctive letter arrives addressed to him from Queenie Hennessy, a former co-worker he hasn’t seen in… Continue reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce #RachelJoyce #JimBroadbent @PRHAudio
the setup… Imogen Finch is an artist but she hasn’t drawn anything in a long time since she returned home to Pitt’s Corner, Oregon to look out for her mother who is considered to be/possibly clairvoyant. Long ago she declared that Imogen would never come first with anyone or in anything and that prediction seems… Continue reading The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch by Jacqueline Firkins @JFkillsdarlings @StMartinsPress
the setup… Welcome to the Stockton family, an old-money member of the one-percenters, living in a coveted Brooklyn community with fruit named streets. Chip and Tilda own a large home on Pineapple Street and have three children. Darley is their oldest, married to Malcolm and they are parents of Poppy and Hatcher. Cord is the… Continue reading Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson @JennyeJackson @MarinIreland @PRHAudio
the setup… Sadie Montgomery is a struggling portrait artist who could use a break. She’s pretty much estranged from her father, her career hasn’t set the world on fire despite her talent and she lives in her studio, which was never meant to be used that way. But her luck might be changing after she… Continue reading Hello Stranger by Katherine Center @katherinecenter @PattiMurin @MacmillanAudio
the setup… College besties Marielle Holland, Naomi Ito, Craig Scheffler, Jordan Vargas and Jordan Tusic were on the brink of graduating from UC at Berkeley when Alec, the sixth person in their group died from an overdose. They’d been one unit since their first days at school and were now devastated. The idea of a… Continue reading The Celebrants by Steven Rowley @mrstevenrowley @PRHAudio #ReadWithJenna
the setup… Sally Milz is living what she believes is her best life. She’s a sketch writer on The Night Owls (TNO), a Saturday night television comedy show (yes, think SNL). It’s the job she’s held for almost ten years and the one she dreamed of for years. She's content with her occasional hook-ups, having… Continue reading Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld @csittenfeld #KristenSieh @ReesesBookClub @PRHAudio
the setup… Harlow Smith runs a bookstore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts with her grandfather. She lives a quiet life, hanging out mostly with family and her trivia night group. That is until the boy she secretly gave birth to while in college and put up for adoption walks in and says hello! How does she respond?… Continue reading A Little Ray of Sunshine by Kristan Higgins @Kristan_Higgins @xesands #LauralMerlington @JeannieSheneman @recordedbooks
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