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Penitence

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Are we exposed by, defined by, the worst thing we’ve ever done? Do our actions teach the world how to label us, hate us, mistrust us β€” or are we better than that, all of us, people who are struggling, who mess up (often royally), who often mean well,…

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American Dirt

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• Finally getting to this incredibly well-received book, it’s clear what all the praise was about. This is an incredible read β€” a saga really, about love and loss and what a human can bear. When the absolute worst is your new reality, how does one envision hope, then reach…

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Needle Lake

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second book I have read from this author, each of which I have loved. β€œNeedle Lake” is surprisingly tender, intensely atmospheric, and utterly compelling β€” with a main protagonist as heart-tuggingly authentic as an imagined character can possibly be. Based in a small town north of Seattle, Washington,…

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Finding Grace

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A really interesting premise that comes out of nowhere, messes with a readers brain, and leaves one more than a little awed at the creative mind that inspired it. With a writing style that reminds this reader of Joanne Trollope, this story is a blend of family and relationship…

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Life, and Death, and Giants

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A heart-tugging and thoughtful look at love, loneliness, and searching β€” for answers to the secrets that all humans yearn to untangle β€” What makes a life β€œgood”, and what, in the end, is it all β€œfor”? Told in the voices of multiple characters, between these pages we will…

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The Day I Left You

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A terrific all-around read β€” combining a mystery, a love story and a whole lot of historical intrigue β€” all wrapped up in a multiple-POV, multiple-timeframe narrative that makes for a unique and mesmerizing experience. Greta Schneider and her family are native East Germans, living in Berlin in 1982,…

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One Grand Summer

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Achingly beautiful, a book that builds from a gentle start, pooling silently like sunlight as the story takes hold, gradually revealing a radiating luminosity that made this reader, upon reaching the final page, long to begin the story all over again. Drenched with nostalgia that sets a tone that…

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What Strange Paradise

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A read for my library book club, I found myself reading this gorgeous novel pretty much straight through. A story that sharply, without apology or sugar-coating, cuts through it all β€” our global predilection for NIMBY-ism, hate, and hypocrisy, underscored by generations of war and conquest β€” to lay…

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Three Days in June

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Like a giant ball of fluffy wool, this absolutely delightful read will tangle you up completely, so sweetly snug you will want to stay more than a while. Written to take place over a three-day period, this book is narrated in the first-person voice of Gail Baines, a sixty-one…

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What happened to the McCrays?

🌟🌟🌟🌟 An emotionally gripping story, highlighting the debilitating trail cut by grief, loss, fear and self-shaming. Narrated in turn by Kyle McCray, a fortyish mechanic, now living in Spokane, Washington and his ex-wife, Casey, who remained behind two-and-a-half years ago in their home and hometown of Potsdam NY, Kyle’s losses…

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