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In this episode our stack is so charming it will sweep you off your feet! Laura read one of her favorites of the year. Leslie continues a favorite series and hopes for a new one. We'll also share a Book in Hand...Plus there’s baking!

Featured Books:

• A Cyclist’s Guide to Crime and Croissants by Ann Claire (LH)
• A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne (LH)
• Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (LP)
• The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong (LP)

Book in Hand

• The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel by Christopher Lincoln (LH)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• You Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Ann Claire
• Legends and Lattes (#1) and Bookshops and Bonedust (#2) by Travis Baldree
• The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• Meet Me At the Museum by Anne Youngson
• Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
• Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne
• The Library of Broken Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
• The Honey Witch by Sydney J Shields
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

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In this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of murder.  Leslie calls it Murdery...Laura calls it Redrum.  Either way we have some page turning heart pounders, something more cerebral, a locked room, and one that's paranormal! We will also share a Book in Hand.  Come along for a twisty thrilling ride!

Featured Books:

• Murder Road by Simone St. James (LH)
• The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman (LH)
• What Have You Done by Shari Lapena (LP)
• If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finley (LP)
• Things Don’t Break On Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins (LH)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
• The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
• What Have We Done by Alex Finlay
• Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
• The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
• The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James 
• We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
• One by One by Ruth Ware
• Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard
• The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

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In this episode we are bringing you a Shorty…an episode with just 2 books, which we hope might be just what you need!  This short stack is a Warm Hug from our bookish hearts to yours. 

Featured Books:

• The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Linda Cohen Loigman (LP)
• A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny (LH)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• The Two-Family House by Linda Cohen Loigman
•  The Wartime Sisters by Linda Cohen Loigman
• The Matchmaker's Gift by Linda Cohen Loigman
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Chief Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
• The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
• Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley
• Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
• The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of having protagonists that are of a "certain age."  Plus, we'll share a creepy Book in Hand. Respect Your Elders...you might find they are not always as they seem (Here's looking at you, Maud)!
 
Featured Books:

• An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten (LH)
• An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helen Tursten (LH)
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston (LP)
• All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (LP)

Book in Hand

• The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• The Teacher by Freida McFadden
•  Never Lie Freida McFadden
• The Housemaid Series Freida McFadden

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
• The Highland Hens by Judy Leigh
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
• The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

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In this episode Leslie finds her niche within a genre, and Laura finds her groove with a reading goal.  We're talking about a stack of fabulous Memoirs!  Plus, we'll share a Book in Hand.  It's Memoir Mania!

Featured Books:

• This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian (LH)
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler (LH)
• From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (LP)
• The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (LP)

Book in Hand

• Hera by Jennifer Saint (LH)

Books and Podcast Mentioned in This Episode

• Everyone Loved It But Me Podcast
• Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
• Elektra by Jennifer Saint 
• Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling
• All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
• Bossypants by Tina Fey

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of our promise that each of these books has something or someone that is based in fact.  We're going full force historical fiction! Plus, we'll share a Book in Hand.

Featured Books:

• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (LH)
• The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams (LH)
• By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (LP)
• The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier (LP)

Book In Hand

• Maria by Michelle Moran

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
• Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier 
• At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier 
• The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
• Husbands and Lovers by Beatriz Williams
• A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta Bead by Evan Turk
• Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
• The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
• Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
• The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
• Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• Tiny Little Things (#2) and Along the Infinite Sea (#3) by Beatriz Williams
• All The Broken Places by John Boyne
• The Attic Child by Lola Jaye
• Starring Adele Astaire by Eliza Knight
• The Queen’s Fortune by Allison Pataki

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 It's Season 3!!!! In this episode, we assign each other a book (new to the show), and share our thoughts. It's time to do our homework!!

Featured Books:

• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (LP to LH)
• Naked in Death by J. D. Robb (LH to LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• In Death Series by J. D. Robb
• Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
•  How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard 
• Family Family by Laurie Frankel
• One, Two, Three by Laurie Frankel

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In this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of books that we enjoyed to close out the summer.  Let's celebrate summer reading together!

Featured Books:

• The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher (LP)
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (LP)
• House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen (LH)
• Gone Wolf by Amber McBride (LH)
• The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan (LP)
• My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon (LH)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• House of Glass by Susan Fletcher
• Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher
• The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Me Moth by Amber McBride
• Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
• The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkenen
• The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen
• Here by Richard McGuire

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In this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of  being Fantasies.  We have a stack that will take you out of the current world and plop you right into another...so be ready for that.  We will also share 2 Books in Hand that will bring you back.  Enjoy!
Featured Books:

• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (LP)
• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (LH)
• Powerless by Lauren Roberts - #1 of the Powerless Trilogy (LH)

Books In Hand

• Count the Ways and How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
• The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard
• Shadow and Bone series and Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Powerful by Lauren Roberts
• Reckless by Lauren Roberts
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
• The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
• Heir by Sabaa Tahir
• Toto by A. J. Hackwith

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In this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being Dystopian.  Ah... that imagined future filled with...what if the world fell apart and we had to survive with none of what we have now, except maybe each other?? Plus, we will share a Book in Hand!  Here we go...

Featured Books:

• Alone by Megan E. Freeman (LP)
• Burn by Peter Heller (LP)
• Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (LH)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (LH)

Book in Hand

• Times Undoing by Cheryl A, Head (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode

• The River by Peter Heller
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
• The Guide by Peter Heller
• Celine by Peter Heller
• Away by Megan E. Freeman (February 2025)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack

• Hum by Helen Phillips
• Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass
• Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

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