Serenity, Reagan and Lorelei are meeting for the first time in Lake Tahoe. They have come together because they have discovered that they are all half sisters, and this trip will give them a chance to get to know each other and hopefully figure out how they are related.

Brenda Novak

Brenda Novak Facebook Group

Brenda Novak's Traveling Bookshop/Coffeshop

Shelly's Tea: Zen-Cha Watermelon Oolong

Candy's Tea: Tazo Passion Tea

Copycat Pink Drink recipe

Choosing a DNA Testing Kit?

Cora Seaborne, recently widowed, decides to leave London to pursue her interest in the mythical Essex Serpent. The book explores friendship, love, and the ways those relationships grow and change.

Sarah Perry

Shelly's Tea: The Teaspot's Clouds & Mist

Candy's Tea: Adagio Tea's Monster Mash

Essex Folk Tales

A secret section of the British government has gathered "expats" from different times of history to study their assimiliation and ability to survive.

Shelly's Tea: New English Teas British Breakfast Tea

Candy's Tea: David's Tea (a blue matcha) Organic Blue Moon Tea

The Mystery Daguerreotypes

Kaliane Bradley Fell in Love With a Dead Man

Arvon Foundation

Article from The Guardian

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this debut crime novel.

Shelly's Tea: Misty Mountain Tea Shop Campfire Chai

Candy's Tea: Lipton Iced Tea

New Orleans Tea Company

PFlag

***SPOILER ALERTS***

So much happens in this book that we give some of it away- not enough to share it all, but enough to keep you interested.

Someone is going to murder Evelyn Hardcastle. Every. Single. Night. Someone exists in an eternal loop of the same day until the murder is solved. There are 8 days to do this or it starts all over again....

Shelly's Tea: Plum Deluxe Calm Chamomile Bloom

Candy's Tea: Valhalla Tea Santa Muerta

Plague Doctor

Clay Jannon finds a job working the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore. But all is not as it seems. There are mysterious books, mysterious people and Clay is about to get involved in a quest he never saw coming.

Shelly's tea: Plum Deluxe Bookshop Blend

Candy's tea: Numi Rooibos

Robin Sloan

Links:

Instructables DIY Hi-Speed Book Scanner From Trash and Cheap Cameras

If the Dragonsong books intrigue you, you may want to try:

The Chronicles of Prydain

The Lord of the Rings

Hayley Powell visits the newest restaurant in town to write an article for her food column in the local Island Times paper.

Chef Romeo has just opened his new restaurant Romeo's, and as good as the food is, the drama is even better. A health scare send Chef Romeo to the hospital and his roommate is Hayley's brother Randy.

It looks like it was a heart attack that killed Romeo, but Randy (under heavy sedation) swears that someone else pulled the plug. Hayley works to find out who.

Shelly's tea: Bigelow Tea Blueberry Citrus Basil

Candy's tea: Traditional Medicinals Dandelion Flower and Root Tea

Lee Hollis Mysteries

Book Riot Punny Quiz

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Shelly and Candy are wrapping up their May reads with two fantasy novels. Magic, mystery and possibly vampires????

Shelly's book: A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

Shelly's tea: Forever Yours from Tea Bloom

Candy's book: Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan

Candy's tea: Butterscotch Chai from DavidsTea

(check back during the holidays/fall for this delicious tea!)

Links:

Original Tale of Beauty and the Beast

The Scottish Tale of Tam Lin

Strigoi

Strigoi Mort

Shelly and Candy are still at it- this is episode four of two different books and the teas paired with them.

Shelly's book: The Labrador Pact by Matt Haig

Shelly's tea: The Climbers High Chai by The Teaspot

Candy"s book: PIglet by Lottie Hazell

Candy's tea: Silent Night by David's Tea

(check their site this holiday season!)

May is the month for two books and teas a piece from Shelly and Candy!

Shelly's book: Recursion by Blake Crouch

Shelly's tea: Plum Deluxe Chamomile Bloom

Candy's book: The Secret of Chimneys (Word Cloud book)

Candy's tea: English Breakfast Black Tea (Adagio Tea)