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Snuggle up Book Club
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items Snuggle up Reading From some fiction greats. Come read with me.
A totally wild read, two sisters in their late twenties care for their ailing mother on a Pacific Northwest island they were raised on. Sam and Elena are desperate for change, their jobs catering to wealthy vacationers barely pays the bills. Then an ...
Bear: A Novel
This outsider's redemption takes place during the summer of 1987. 16 year old Diamond Newberry is an outcast in her small New England town, and the only other Black person living there since her dad disappeared seven years earlier. She begins receivi...
Swift River: a novel
A different kind of war story. It's 1945, and Japan has invaded British-colonized Malaya(modern day Malaysia). Cecily is distraught over the fate of her three children, partially because her own actions may have put them in danger. Ten years prior, b...
The Storm We Made: A Novel
A relatable family drama, Julia Ames is an almost empty-nester living a perfectly nice life married to a perfectly nice guy. While grocery shopping for her husband's birthday party, she runs into an old friend who supported her during the difficult d...
Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
A thought provoking thriller features Jasmyn Williams, who just moved with her young family to Liberty California. Yet this isn't your typical community, it's a Black utopia. Jasmyn is excited until she discovers that Liberty is hiding a terrifying s...
One of Our Kind: A Novel
An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Long Island Compromise: A Novel
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers.
The Cliffs: A Novel
Heartfelt and witty, this follows Michael, 42, and Marnie, 38. A mutual friend pushes them together for a multi day group hike, the last thing either of them wanted to do. Their journey, and what they learn walking side by side, leads to a ridiculous...
You Are Here
A novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence.
Burn: A Novel
Named Most Anticipated by Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot, this “tense dystopian thriller” (TIME) captures an urgent and unflinching portrayal of a woman’s fight for her family’s security in a world shaped by global warming and rapid technological p...
Hum
A riveting escape that is part murder mystery, part historical fiction. In New England in 1789, Martha, a midwife and healer, examines the body of a local man after it's found frozen in ice. She knows he is one of two men accused of rape and certain ...
The Frozen River: Bestselling Author
Jasmine Yang has just arrived in New York City from China, where she fled her abusive husband to track down the daughter she was forced to give up at birth. Uptown, Rebecca Whitney is a wealthy publishing executive juggling a major career hurdle whil...
The Leftover Woman
A dazzling collection of short stories set in Ireland, where in each story, a woman faces an unimaginable challenge.
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
Tash feels like an outcast in her posh London neighborhood, where she and her husband barely make rent on their dingy basement apartment. With her son in a new play group, she has time for her freelance journalism career, and she thinks she has a loc...
The Other Mothers
In this un-Hallmark movie, Rachel is an environmental journalist in D.C. middle-aged, divorced and childless. She has no desire to go back to Maine to be reminded her family doesn't know how to handle her independence. But when her mother passes away...
Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel
This family drama features 30-something Flores and her Peruvian immigrant mother, Paula, who are mourning the recent death of their father and husband, Martín. Without him as mediator, the two argue about how each thinks the other should live. Then t...
Flores and Miss Paula
A feel good fiction, Eugene “Geno” Miles is an elderly resident of an assisted living facility. His new nursing assistant, Angel, wouldn't call him an average patient: he's moody AND insists his life began on medieval Spain, where he lost the only lo...
Again and Again: A Novel
This novel pays tribute to the overlooked wives of American men whose work(ex. government, military or private firms) stationed them near the center of the Vietnam War. Set (mostly) in Saigon in 1963, the story focuses on timid newlywed Tricia and th...
Absolution
The latest by literary legend Julia Alvarez, centers on Alma, a writer living in Vermont who inherits a small plot in her family's homeland of the Dominican Republic. She turns it into a graveyard for her unfinished manuscripts, but her characters ar...
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Aida Rodriguez has a backstory you truly need to read to believe. In this memoir, she reveals how she was kidnapped-twice!-by family members, survived abuse and homelessness. Also revealing how she ultimately found her way to success(including a Max ...
Legitimate Kid: A Memoir
Two young men, Cam and TJ, are former best friends whose lives have taken different paths. After the death of his lover, Cam returns to their hometown of Houston, where he overindulges in everything(sex, food and drugs), and TJ wonders if there is an...
Family Meal: A Novel
The NEW required reading for moms looking to have a happy, healthy pregnancy and bounce back better than ever! Jillian Michaels along with her team of top-notch experts, will change everything you think you know about pregnancy. Arming you with the m...
Yeah Baby! The Modern Mama's Pregnancy Guide
In Tim O'Brien's first novel in over twenty years, he's focusing on the absurdity of modern times. It's 2019, and Boyd Halverson, s journalist turned online troll, has just robbed a bank and taken Angie Bing, the teller, hostage. Their journey from s...
America Fantastica: A Novel
Four sisters all in their thirties, unmarried and with PhDs, live unique lives in various corners of the world. That is, until the eldest, a geologist who's distraught over the state of the planet, disappears into the Irish countryside, and the remai...
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Set in a seen-better-days beach town in Massachusetts, all the locals know one another and not much goes unnoticed. When a teenage girl mysteriously dies at a house party, the ripples are felt by everyone. The girl's story is told in vignettes throug...
Women and Children First: A Novel