the setup… Madeline Martin is the owner of a successful business in upstate New York called The Next Chapter Bookshop. She leads a quiet life, caring for her father who is still recovering from a stroke and enjoying her role in the community. That is until Harley Granger walks into her bookstore a few days… Continue reading Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger @lisaunger #JenniferPickens @HighBridgeAudio
Hosted by Angel’s Book Nook & Books of My Heart, this is a favorite challenge. I love libraries and so many of the books I read are sourced by them. This will be my sixth year participating in the challenge and I’m signing up for Overdrive Junkie (36 books) since I came close to that… Continue reading 2024 Library Love Challenge! @BooksofMyHeart @angels_gp17 #2024LibraryLoveChallenge
the setup… Fact. Anthony Horowitz is a bestselling author of several successful series, one of which was adapted into an award winning television series. Fiction. He’s on the cusp of adapting a book to screen with Steven Spielberg as the director when he’s approached by former police detective Daniel Hawthorne to write a book about… Continue reading The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz @AnthonyHorowitz #RoryKinnear @HarperAudio
the setup… Ashley Smith is an American art student from Sacramento who is studying in London. It’s 1989 and a junior year where she’s facing spending the Christmas holiday alone as her mother recently died and there’s no one left behind in California. When she gets a sudden invitation from another student, Emma Chapman, she’s… Continue reading The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson @PeterSwanson3 @estherwane @HarperAudio
the setup… Iris Raven is a culinary chef from London who decides to relocate to New York after the death of her beloved mother and to escape a toxic relationship. She’s given a job at a noodle shop and a place to stay above it by the wonderful Bobby and his husband Robin. She chose… Continue reading A Winter in New York by Josie Silver @JosieSilver_ @PRHAudio
the setup… Elizabeth Zott is a chemist working for the Hastings Research Institute in California. It’s the 1960s and not only was is highly unusual for a woman to be working in this field, it was unusual for her “colleagues” who soon recognized she was brilliant. They did everything to undermine her except for one… Continue reading Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus @BonnieGarmus #MirandaRaison #PRHAudio
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… Tilly Twomley is at a crossroad and she’s only 18-years old. The trouble is, that crossroad has a lot of intersections and she has no idea what she wants to do with her life. But Tilly knows it’s not the path her mother wants her to take, going to college and becoming a… Continue reading Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings #JustisBolding @recordedbooks
the setup… Evan Smoak is recovering from the devastating attack on his penthouse six months ago and a chance encounter with a migrant worker has him considering a new Nowhere Man mission. But Aragón Urrea is no innocent, a drug kingpin in Texas who operates outside of the cartels and supports his community in the… Continue reading Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @ScottBrick @MacmillanAudio
the setup… When former US Marshal Regan Merritt’s 10-year old son Chase was gunned down in her home in Northern Virginia, it not only destroyed her but also her marriage to attorney Grant Warwick. He blamed her job for what happened to Chase and evidence seemed to support that someone related to one of her… Continue reading Don’t Open the Door by Allison Brennan @Allison_Brennan @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
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