"PT Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus". There's just something about the circus, isn't there? I love books set in or that are about the circus. They always have an element of hard scrabble lives and magic. I think I'm not the only one. Everyone has heard of …
Benbrae, the dark family estate she left behind, calls Megan home after 5 years away when her sister lays dying. Her return brings secrets to the surface, but Megan has mental health issues and is also deaf, so she's not sure that she can trust her own thoughts and memories and hearing. Why did her …
Sunday Brennan fled her life in New York fiver years ago, but when she's in a DUI accident, her brother Denny convinces her to come home, at least for a while. No one knows why she left so suddenly, including leaving a fiance behind. A man who is now her brothers business partner. What happened …
After a Sunday drive, Eden stops off to pick up kitty litter while her husband waits in the car. But she never comes back. While he thinks she has gotten mad at him and gone to a friends place, when it reports it the police think he's killed her. But can they prosecute him without …
In a resort town on the border of North and South Korea in deep Winter, a French-Korean receptionist at a guesthouse meets a graphic novelist from France. Immediately drawn to him, she agrees to shown him around her town and hopes that he will not just see the town as she sees it, but also …
"Why I am better than you and you are better than someone who didn't buy this book." That's the tagline on the cover, and that made me laugh, so then I wanted to read it. I think this one is intentionally polarizing and decidedly trying to annoy some people with it's cover design (ok, and …
When a headless woman's body is found on a running trail in Birmingham, UK, DI Watts is on the case. When a further gruesome clue is found nearby, criminologist Will Traynor is called in to help. But can he get past his own trauma to focus on the case? Dark Truths is the first novel …
Red Bluff, Mississippi, is a dying town in the 70's, slowly being eaten up by the encroaching kudzu, and there's something rotten at the heart of the "blackwood" that lurks underneath it's leaf canopy. A family living rough end up there at the same time that Colburn returns to town, an artist looking for answers …
Strawberry I've never been a very good gardener, but this year I've started to get the hang of it and it's really blooming out there on the balcony. We live in an apartment, so it's all pots, but there's a lot you can do on a balcony or windowsill that can be really rewarding as …
The authors of this book make up a pair called The Minimalists, who started a blog together and later a successful podcast about decluttering and simplifying your life. This book is partly their memoir of growing up under difficult circumstances and not having much, to leading lives of debt and unhappiness. At this point they …
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