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A Cold Christmas: A Mystery Featuring Susan Wren | Charlene Weir

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I love deep thoughts of contemporary lit, and I love interesting themes given wit and care. Make me laugh, make me cry, be silly, #FoundFamily #ExquisiteWriting, daring and considerate treatment of the human condition.

Suet624 Great list!! 2d

BarbaraBB Many five ⭐️ reads and so many great ones. Thanks for sharing and the inspiration for my tbr! I have to get my hands on

I Make Envy on Your Disco

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Readerann I loved the ones on your list I‘ve read. 👍 1d

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Texreader

A Quilt for Christmas | Sandra Dallas

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Eliza and Will have made a lovely home for themselves and their two children in Kansas but when Will goes to fight for the Union against the “seceshes” (secessionists), Eliza must run the farm mostly alone and face life as “just a woman,” in a very man‘s world. She must decide whether to help an escaped slave, how to deal with brutal thugs who would as soon kill her and her kids as look at her, and whether she should let a secesh help her when ⬇️

Texreader stops at her farm on his way west. Meanwhile, her secesh-hating son, not quite grown, is a help but a hindrance. Eliza has her quilting group and her beautiful Christmas quilt, a gift to her husband on the battlefield, is the thread that partly holds the tale together. It‘s a beautiful story with important lessons for recovering from that traumatic war even today. There‘s still so much hate, and this story shows that it doesn‘t have to be ⬇️ 4d

Texreader that way. I‘m a southern girl with multiple ancestors who fought for the confederacy. They didn‘t own and never owned slaves. Why did they fight? Were they conscripted? Or went to war because their buddies did? Or were there other reasons? I‘ll never know that much, sadly, but I cannot hate them. My gggrandfather walked home from Raleigh after the south surrendered. His tale is miraculous. I‘d like to think he‘s like the “secesh” in this story. ⬇️ 4d

Texreader I really appreciated reading how this one family found peace. It really made me think a lot about my genealogical research as well as the fact that there‘s still so much pain today. I don‘t know how we ever find peace but I wish it were so, so much. #letterQ #Christmasatoz #xmaschacha #wintergames @StayCurious (edited) 4d

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Texreader

A Quilt for Christmas | Sandra Dallas

Audiocrafting gets quite messy!

#letterQ #Christmasatoz #xmaschacha #wintergames @StayCurious #littenlisten @aperfectmjk

ShelleyBooksie Beautiful paper! 6d

Texreader @ShelleyBooksie I agree!! It‘s very fun to use to make the cards 6d

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 6d

AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 6d

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Texreader

A Quilt for Christmas | Sandra Dallas

My next audiobook #letterQ #Christmasatoz #xmaschacha #wintergames @StayCurious #littenlisten @aperfectmjk

sblbooks I read this a few years back, and really enjoyed it. I hope you like it. 6d

Texreader @sblbooks I really did. A complete surprise 21h

sblbooks @Texreader that's good. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. 10h

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DrasticallyJill

The Roanoke Girls: A Novel | Amy Engel

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I read this a while ago. It left me feeling that the author tackled a twisted theme using expert storytelling. Building up characters, a family history, and the readers abject horror with a mounting unease. Excellent book. Dissecting a family and generations of trauma that impacted each woman, all inflicted by one man.

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In Cold Blood | Truman Capote

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A reconstructed telling of the murder and investigation of an esteemed Kansas family, and the psychological profile of their killers

True Crime ✨ Violence ✨ Motive

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CloakNQuill

Red Rabbit | Alex Grecian

@ImperfectCJ tysm!!!! obsessed with this book sleeve 😍💀 then to top it off with the perfect books. I can not wait to devour Red Rabbit. The feather bookmark is already in my current read 💕

Happy opening day everyone!! @MaleficentBookDragon #ahrs24 #allhallowsreadswap

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