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Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of two teenagers, Frances “Frankie” Budge and Zeke Brown. The novel is concerned with the heightened feelings of adolescence and a work of art growing out of control of its creator. The plot centers around a work of art they made when they were teenagers that became a global phenomenon, both for good and bad.
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#SroryGraph: fiction historical emotional reflective sad france translated-works war-wwii
480 pages • 5 Stars
January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz. Fifteen years later, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why.
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#StoryGraph: fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad
304 pages • first pub 2023 • 4 Stars
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel.
pick#MMD ModernMrsDarcy Pick for June 2023 • 8 out of 5 Stars 🩵 FANTASTIC!
Two sisters, Hazel and Flora, are evacuated from London during World War II and sent to live in a rural village. Hazel distracts her younger sister with a fairy tale about a magical land that they can escape to. Eventually, the sisters become separated and Flora is believed to be dead … until a mysterious book arrives at the London bookseller‘s shop where Hazel works.
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#ReesesBookClub April 2023 selection
#StoryGraph: fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted chick-lit rom-com
I don‘t think it‘s coincidence that a book about a Saturday Night Live type show wasn‘t very humorous … much like the way I feel about the real SNL. Hey, y‘all, I gave it my best, but this book was just not for me.
Rating: 2 of 5 stars = It was okay
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#OUABC Once Upon a Book Club February 2023 Monthly Box: The Life That Got Away
Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly blank page.
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#StoryGraph: fiction crime mystery thriller
368 pages • first pub 2022
DESCRIPTION
It's time to solve the murder of the century...
Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it was the key to solving a puzzle.
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#StoryGraph: magical realism reflective southern supernatural
When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment on Mallow Isalnd, she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors: a girl on the run, two estranged sisters, a lonely chef, a legendary writer, and three ghosts. Each with their own story, Each with their own longings. Each whose ending isn't written yet. ~ Publisher
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#StoryGraph: fiction contemporary literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced
368 pages • first pub 2022
Please note, I am a big fan of magical realism and dark humor. If you like that kind of book this one will please you.
Publisher‘s blurb:
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after.
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Hadi and Sama are a Syrian couple deeply in love and living in Boston. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he‘d landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. In 2016, they are tragically separated when Hadi returns to Turkey for his father‘s funeral and is then denied entry back in the U.S. This little book will tug at your heartstrings in a big way.
