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In this episode we are getting Comfy and Cozy with Mysteries. Tis the season, right?  As we record today it's snowing outside and we have a fire going...on the TV, but still!  We will also share a Book in Hand that is being published in January 2026 and do a shameless pitch for our Patreon Channel.  Wink, wink!

Featured Books:

• The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully (LH)
• A Rather Peculiar Poisoning by Chrystal Schleyer (LH)
• The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (LP)
• The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend (LP)

Book in Hand:

• The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Maid by Nita Prose
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne 
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman
• The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
• The Harry Potter Series J. K. Rowling 
• The Lost Queen Series by Signe Pike
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P Manansala
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant
• A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

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In today's episode we are sharing our 2025 Faves...and good news...this is Part 2!  Today we disclose the rest of our list!  It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Featured Books:

• The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols (LH)
• The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo (LH) 
• Run by Blake Crouch (LH)
• All My Mothers by Joanna Glen (LH)
• The Red House by Mary Morris (LH)
• The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian (LP)
• Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (LP)
• Lark Ascending by Silas House (LP)
• The Names by Florence Knapp (LP)
• The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Murder on Charity Lane by Jo Nichols
• Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding by Lian Dolan

Featured Runner Up Books:

• Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven (LH)
• Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (LP)

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In today's episode we are sharing our 2025 Faves...and good news...this is Part 1!  Listen in next week for Part 2.  It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Featured Books:

• The Courting of Bristol Keats and The Last Wish of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson (LH)
• This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Greg (LH) 
• The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper LH)
• This Motherless Land by Nikki May (LH)
• The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa (LH)
• Buckeye by Patrick Ryan (LP)
• Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins (LP)
• Candle Island by Lauren Wolk (LP)
• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (LP)
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros

Featured Runner Up Books:

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (LP)
• The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros (LH)

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being selections based on the NYT’s Summer Bucket List Reading Challenge.  This is Part 2!

Featured Books:

•  Read a Book in a Genre You Don’t Usually Read
  • A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna (LH)
• Read One of the NYT Best Books of the 21st Century
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (LH)
• Read a Book by an Author You’ve Never Read Before
  • Buckeye by Patrick Ryan (LP)
•  Read a Book in a Genre You Don’t Typically Read
  • Devotions by Mary Oliver (LP)
• Listen to an Audio Book
  • The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

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In today's episode we are featuring some Unexpected Books for the Holiday Season.  We have Christmas capers, ghost stories, and lots more...jingle, jingle!

Featured Books:

• The Usual Santas: A Collection of SOHO Crime Christmas Capers by 18 SOHO crime authors (LH)
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (LH)
• The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume 3 (LH)
• Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien (LH)
•  A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg (LP)
• The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman (LP)
• The Santa Trial by Tess Thompson (LP)
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (LP)
• The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Fried Green Tomatoes by Fanny Flagg
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• My Friends by Fredrik Backman
• Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Let It Glow by Marissa Meyer and Joanne Levy

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Anyone else love to cook and bake?  Well, What's Cookin?  We have a variety of cook and bake books on the table!

Featured Books:

• The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book by Alice B. Toklas (LH)
• The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis (LH)
• How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson (LH)
• Sally’s Baking Addiction by Sally McKenney (LP)
• Sally’s Cookie Addiction by Sally McKenney (LP)
• Half Baked Harvest Every Day by Tieghan Gerard (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Sally’s Baking 101 by Sally McKenney
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• Half Baked Harvest Quick and Cozy by Tieghan Gerard
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The Essential Recipes by Ree Drummond
• Keep It Simple Y’all by Matthew Bounds

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In today's episode we are featuring a few Authors We Love...automatic reads if you will.  And, Yes...We will!

Featured Books:

• Travis Baldree -  Brigands and Breadknives (LH)
• Lian Dolan - Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding (LH)
• Michiko Aoyama - The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park (LH)
• Kelly Rimmer - The Story Keeper (LP)
• Martha Hall Kelly - The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer
• Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
• The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
•  Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
•  Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
• Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
• Lost and Found in Paris by Lian Dolan
• Helen of Pasadena: A Novel by Lian Dolan
• What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• Sara Goodman Confino - Don’t Forget to Write, Good Grief, She’s Up to No Good
• Peter Heller - The River, The Dog Stars, The Orchard, The Guide, Burn, The Last Ranger, Celine

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being Homework we assigned to one another.  One of us turned our assignment in late...will it affect the final grade?? Let's see how we did with this short stack! 

Featured Books:

• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (LP to LH)
• Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell (LH to LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• LP Wants LH to Read A Death on Corfu by Emily Sullivan
• LH Wants LP to Read The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols.

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being part of the NYT’s Summer Bucket List Reading Challenge.  We don't normally do formal challenges but we couldn't resist!

Featured Books:

• Reread A Book You Loved as a Kid (LH):
  • Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
  • The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
• A Book Set Somewhere You Have Never Been (LH):
  • The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
  • Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
• A Book Published in the Last Year (LP)
  • A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy
• A Book in a Genre You Don’t Normally Read (LP)
  • The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb
• A Book in Translation (LP)
  • The Letter Carrier by Francesca Giannone

Author Mentioned in this Episode:

• Kate Morton

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• A Book in a Genre You Don’t Normally Read 
  • Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Marmie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age Partied Her Way to Power by Jennifer Wright
  • The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
  • The Vanishing by Wendy Webb
• A Book Published in the Last Year 
  • Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

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Welcome to Season 4! Today's episode features a celebratory stack of books tied together with the common theme of being our Real Time Reading Books aka the books in our hands right now.  We have a little bit of everything...so onward!

Featured Books:

• Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan (LH)
• The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell (LH)
• Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins (LP)
• The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes (LP)
• A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
• The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde
• The Letter Carrier by Francesca Giannone
• The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
• The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
• The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
• Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

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