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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 25 2023, 10:01 pm
What are some very good books you’ve read lately? Looking to create new list for library check out.
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amother
Aqua


 

Post Wed, Apr 26 2023, 2:33 am
"The Matchmaker's Gift" - Lynda Cohen Loigman
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amother
Aqua


 

Post Wed, Apr 26 2023, 2:33 am
amother Aqua wrote:
"The Matchmaker's Gift" - Lynda Cohen Loigman


And her other 2 books!
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amother
Denim


 

Post Wed, Apr 26 2023, 8:04 am
The fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony beevor
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PinkFridge




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Apr 26 2023, 8:11 am
What are some books you've read and liked?
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Post Wed, Apr 26 2023, 9:39 am
I admit I am a sucker for animals. As a child my favorite book was Wind In The Willows Smile

This warmed the cockles of my sometimes cynical heart - it has been on the best seller list for awhile but don't let that dissuade you as it is not typical trash or thriller

Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

N INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today

“Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender.” — Washington Post

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.

Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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scruffy




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Apr 26 2023, 10:00 am
Amarante wrote:
I admit I am a sucker for animals. As a child my favorite book was Wind In The Willows Smile

This warmed the cockles of my sometimes cynical heart - it has been on the best seller list for awhile but don't let that dissuade you as it is not typical trash or thriller

Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

N INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today

“Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender.” — Washington Post

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.

Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.


I actually read this book recently. It was a nice light read.
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amother
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Post Thu, Apr 27 2023, 8:22 pm
Couldn’t find the matchmaker one but got her other two books. Hope I like!
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amother
Orange


 

Post Thu, Apr 27 2023, 9:18 pm
List of great Books!!!
Weight of ink
Before the rain falls- Lucinda riley
The Yiddish policemen's union Michael chabon
Stillhouse lake
Ready player one
Truly madly guilty by Liane Moriarty
Before the fall
Before we were yours
Ugly love -Colleen Hoover
Still me (book 3 of me before you)
Let me go
November 9
Game of queens
Confess
Irena’s children
👍🏻The midnight rose- Lucinda Riley
Beneath the scarlet sky
The Prague sonata
Love warrior- glennon Doyle Melton
The journal of best practices - memoir
The crooked little road to semi ever happiness- heather harpham- memoir
Before the rain falls
The lost letter
the trust- Ronald Balson
The only girl in the world
the secret book of kings by Yochi brandes
Happiness- heather harpham
the identical- Elin hildebrands
The last punisher - Kevin lace
Woman of god- James Paterson
Beartown- Frederick Backman (better than man called ove)
The good girl
Garden of burning sand
The operator- James O'Neil (the man who shot bin laden)
The English German girl
The rent collector
A piece of the world
My own dear brother
Dreaming in color
Queenmaker
Call the midwife now
The break down
👍🏻The olive tree- Lucinda Riley
The bakers secret
The bronze horseman
Say goodbye for now in 1960 (very good not amazing) racial slavery theme
Yellow crocus 1840 (also very good and not hard core slavery but more love bet white girl and wet nurse)
the tears of dark water by Corban Addison
Behind closed doors
👍🏻It ends with us- Colleen Hoover
By fire by water
This house is mine - dorte Hansen (quirky novel)
👌🏻Emunah with love and chicken soup - reb machlis story
Small great things
Secrets of a charmed life
German girl (mixed to bad reviews )
Dovekeepers
Small great things - Jodi picoult
Claiming Noah
Fortune hunter
Girl from the garden
A pigeon and a boy
"Your mouth is lovely" and " the imposter bride" by Nancy Richler. Pretty good reads!
A house without windows (was reallly veryyy goood)
brain on fire
invisible bridge
and after the fire
After the time
Pearl that broke its shell
Moon is low
Gentleman in Moscow- wall streeter
Prime ministers- Yehuda avner
Nazi officers wife (interesting story- not so well written)
The winter guest- Pam jenoff
Jewish pirates of the Caribbean - Edward kritzler
Winter garden - Kristin Hannah
Red notice - bill browder
Robert Carey mysteries - PF Chisholm (detective novels in England)
A 1000 islands of mirrors (indian good)
The two family house
Behind closed doors
Lavender garden
👍🏻The angle tree- Lucinda Riley
Breath becomes air
Read two of Diane Chamberlain's novels the midwife's confession
Blackbird - memoir
the secret life of Cc Wilkes
- Nouri .. Story of Isidore Dayan
Secret daughter
The time between
Man called ove
Suite Française by Irene nemirovsky. really good
Before the rain falls- Camille di maio (Seriously amazing)
👍🏻Karolina's twins- Ronald h balson
The trap by Melanie raabe
Harems midwife
The color of our sky- amita trasi
13 hours- Benghazi
The one man- Andrew gross
The luminous heart of Jonah s.
Sweet bitter -Stephanie danler (sjp
recommendation )
Jerusalem maiden
Game of queens
The drowning girls -couldn't put it down
The fallout
The space between sisters-not bad
Finding Rebecca - very good
The tea girl of hummingbird lane
The horse dancer
The stars are fire- pretty good
Brain on fire- crazy story
Confessions of a young Nero
The girl u left behind
The Bridal chair (some pple didn't love)
Harem midwife (sequel to midwife of Venice)
What was mine - Helen Klein
Cavendon- Barbra Taylor Bradford
Midwife of Venice- Roberta Rich
House of dolls- holocaust book
What she knew- gummy Macmillan
Harem midwife
Claiming Noah
Glory over everything
What lies between us- (disturbing book)
I am malala
The girl from the garden
The hired girl
She's coming undone- Wally lamb
Titans - Leila Menachem
Orphan #8
This is not a love story - Judy brown
Missing pieces- heather gudenkauf
😜Seven sisters and storm sister Lucinda riely
The remains of the day
The red chamber
The golden son (good Indian story)
Impostors bride
My father's paradise
Namesake
Bakers daughter
Garden of letters
Thread of grace
👍🏻Paris architect
City of woman
Invisible bridge
A Paris apartment
Those who saved us
the story hour by thrity umrigar.
Angela's ashes
Japanese lover
A bollywood affair which is indian love story todays days
Hush little baby (domestic violence story)
Finishing orheans inheritance today and old turkey armenian saga
zetoiun
3 daughters- Consuelo Saah Baehr
House in the sky
The dove keeper (Masada novel)
the Martian
The Aleppo codex - matti Friedman
👌🏻Molokai
Waters edge- Sara Gruen
Read Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
A house in the sky
The Rosie project ?
the distance between us by reyna grande
Tea time for fireflies
Breaking night
The thorn bird
Bounty hunter 4/3- Jason Delgado - marine combat
We are not ourselves (read reviews)
Ghost boy
The girl from foreign
Dancing on broken glass
We are not ourselves
The calligraphers daughter
My father's paradise
All the light we can not see- read reviews
Mamas bank account
Saving amilie - read reviews
Ashley's war-( girl navy seal story)
Cut me loose leah Vincent (memoir of ex chasid)
The golem of Hollywood by johnathan kellerman
Missoula- Jon krakauer. Look at reviews
Gd help the child- Toni Morrison
The language of flowers
The vintners daughter
A couple from London
Refugee from Nigeria
sparrow in terezin
All I love and know
Little bee
1185 park ave
Hush hush (read reviews first )- Laura Lippmann
Daniel Silvia- house of spies
The Orchid House
Alice Hoffman- the marriage of opposites (read reviews )
Amherst - William Nicholson (read reviews first )
Read the Martian.
a Thread of Grace
Jeffery archer Kane and able and as the crow flies
Henna house
The secret history
the Husbands Secret
Mightier than the sword (whole series)
A thread of grace
5 days that shocked the world
Immortal life of Henrietta lacks (think I read)
Lowland
Broken glasses (? Correct name?)
Sea creatures
The vacationers
The color of our sky- amita trasi (human trafficking )
The pearl
Alice
Tears of the dark waters
The zookeepers wife
Fire by water
Garden of Burning sand (good not amazing)
THe kommendants girl ??
Street sweeper (Miriam s has it)
House girl
👍🏻Once We were brothers- Ronald balson
Love you more-Lisa Gardner
👍🏻Orphan train
Darling ladies of Lowell & the dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Little bee
Ready player one
Man in the sharkskin suit
Girl you left behind
The address
The weight of ink- long and heavy
Ken follet
Brooklyn
Pigeons and a boy
All I Iove and know - Judith frank
Lisa scottoline's come home
Breaking night
The space between us
Tea time for fireflies
The interestings
The garden of burning sand
Scull caps and switchblades
Struck by genius- Jason Padgett
little mercies by heather gudenkauf
What she left behind
The orchid house
The midwife confession
The secret life of Ceecee wilkes
Saving Amelie
Those who save us
An American bride in Kabul -Phyllis chessler
The wonder
The wedding tree
the stolen marriage by Diane chamberlain
, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State.
Two kinds of truth - Michael Connelly
The long way home
The promise of stardust
The room on rue amelie was excellent
Common story but addictive and sad
Must read
Before we were yours
The sweetness of forgetting. Emilie rue
Gateway to the moon. Historical fiction
Everything here is beautiful- mental illness
The monk of mokha- Dave eggers
Mossad exodus- Gad Shimron
The secrets she keeps
The last watchman of Cairo
little fires everywhere
the last mrs parish.
Leaving time-Jodi picoult
The silent wife- harisson
The house of unwanted girls - Joanna Goodman
We were the lucky ones
I heard you paint houses (a mob book)
The story sisters
Silent corner, the whisper room (series book 1 & 2)
Love warrior
Next year in Havana
Lonely hearts hotel
The husband hour
A mirrer in Manila
Three floors up by eshkol nevo
The Way of Beauty- Camille De Maio book
“a long was home” - Sierra Leone
The lioness of morocco- Julia drosten
A long way gone - Ishmael beah
Spilled milk - abuse memoir
dreams of falling by karen white
My notorious life- Kate manning
City of women- David R G(?)
The girl from the train was amazing!!! Ww2 girl saved from train Auschwitz bound...(Not to be confused with girl on the train)
“Ill be your blue sky” was great fast read
“cottage by the sea” was typical good beach read
Emily griffin’s new book- “all we ever wanted”- it was very good
Educated - Tara westover- amazing memoir
the lost vintage
Saving beck was excellent if u can handle it
It was teen overdose story
without merit and all your perfects by Colleen Hoover
Home for unwanted girls
without merit
Bad blood
Devil’s punch bowl- Greg Iles (thriller)
The Romanov princess-a novel by tsarina Maria fedoronova written by C W gortner
Eleanor oliphant
The girl from the train - Irma jouben
The summer before the war- Helen simonson
The fortune teller- Gwendolyn Womack
The way of beauty- Camille di maio
Rise- Bridget Gabriel
I found you
Ship of brides- jojo moyes
Educated- Tara westover
Promised land
Queen maker
Maiden in Jerusalem
Button man
The secrets between us
Spark of light- Jodi picult
Killing the SS - bill o’reilly (heard interview on it)
5 people you meet in heaven- Mitch albom (heard interview about it)
Next year in Havana -
All the ugly and wonderful things
Bad blood
👍🏻Dancing on broken glass
Home front- Kristin Hannah
The two family house
The confessions of max tivoli- Andrew Sean greer
inside the O’Brien’s
Beneath a scarlet sky
Walking shadows - Faye kellerman
Where the crawdads sing
The girl from Berlin
Then she was gone
carneige’s maid
The Kennedy’s debutante
The lost letter
A house in the sky - Amanda lindhout
THe fortune teller - Gwendolyn Womack
The book of essie - Meghan Maclean weir
Finding Georgina
Before I let you go
Then she was gone - Lisa jewell
Dumplin- Julie Murphy
Story teller’s secrets
The wartime sisters
The love letter - Lucinda Riley
Behind closed doors - B A Paris
The girls at 17 swanns st- book on anorexia
Ghosted - Rosie Walsh
Someone knows my name
The secret of clouds
The wife between us
The gown- Jennifer Robson
The dream daughter - Diane chamberlain
The lost girls of Paris- Pam jenoff
Magic hour- Kristin Hannah
Before I let you go- kelly rimmer
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo -Taylor jenkin Reid
Daughter of Molokai
Rosie’s colored glasses
The dream daughter
We all love pretending to dance
The silent sister
Stolen marriage
It’s always the husband- Michelle Campbell
👎🏻Inheritance - Dani Shapiro
The story tellers secret-
We were the lucky ones
Rise out of hatred- Eli saslow
Glory over everything - sequel to kitchen house
A simple favor
The art of inventing hope
The huntress
The last girl -
A dr am called home
Beneath a marble sky
Mrs. Everything
Everyone has secrets - need to know karen Cleveland
The choice
A discovery of witches. By Deborah Harkness
My lovely wife
The paris seamstress
The aviator’s wife
The last romantics
The ragged edge of the night
American duchess
The song of Jade Lily
Ask again yes
Fly Away (sequel to firefly lane)
Polite Society (choppy according to Aviva )
The summer we lost her
Dear wife - Kimberly belle
Red notice
The paris orphan
The girl he used to know
Our new normal by colleen faulkner
A bend in the stars- historical fiction
Cilka’s journey- sequel to “the tattooist of aushwitz”
Don’t you forget about me
keeping lucy- excellent must read
how to walk away
Dragonfly by leila meachem
roses, one the best books ever wrote anazing ww2 book
Fountainhead- Any rand
The girl they left behind
How to walk away
The secret orphan
The third daughter
The terminal list and True believer- jack carr
Starless sea
The silent patient
The giver of the stars
The sun sister - lucinda Riley
This tender land
The German midwife
Storytellers secret
The ice cream queen of orchard street
The gifted school- Bruce holsinger
If only I could tell you
Breaking the silence- diane chamberlain
The Dutch wife
things you save in a fire- Katherine center
The bright unknown- Elizabeth Byler younts
House on fire
11/22/63 Stephen king (about the jfk assassination)
This tender land
The German house
Wild game - my mother, her lover and me
Regretting you
The house on endless water
Hopeless Colleen hoover
Cutting for stone - Abraham verghese
The wives- tarrryn Fischer
The impact of as long as I live- Ahron margolit
The flowers in Paris
A woman is no man
The Secret keeper
Lady In waiting- my extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown Anne glenconner
Wine girl- Victoria James
Out of the shadow - Rochelle Garfield
Call your daughter home- deb spera
A view across roof tops
Promise
The wives
The divorce papers
Have you seen Luis velez
American dirt
👍🏻Hopeless - Colleen Hoover
The last flight
The color of water
True colors
The wine makers wife
The scent keepers
When we believe in mermaids
The wife stalker
The butterfly room- Lucinda Riley
Verity
Sold on Monday
Defending Jacob
Washington black
The words I never wrote
My dark Vanessa
I know this much is true
Pillars of the earth- trilogy
relations and vanity- Kevin kwan
Daughter of the Reich
The vanishing half
You should talk to someone
A view across across the rooftops
The world that we knew - Alice Hoffman
Class mom
Born survivors

Eliyahu books:
Bad guys
Garfield
Mrs. Daisy is crazy
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amother
Poppy


 

Post Thu, Apr 27 2023, 9:31 pm
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman is such a good read!!
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amother
Snapdragon


 

Post Thu, Apr 27 2023, 11:02 pm
amother Orange wrote:
List of great Books!!!
Weight of ink
Before the rain falls- Lucinda riley
The Yiddish policemen's union Michael chabon----

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Wow what a list. Did you read all of these?
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amother
Coral


 

Post Thu, Apr 27 2023, 11:16 pm
Liane Moriarty- shes great. I liked her books "big little lie", "apples never fall", nine perfect strangers" and "what alice forgot". theyre not too heavy but still interesting and have great characters.

if you like crime mysteries jonathan kellerman's Alex delaware series is great.
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amother
Lemonchiffon


 

Post Thu, Apr 27 2023, 11:22 pm
All the broken places - John Boyne was really good.
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amother
Aqua


 

Post Fri, Apr 28 2023, 1:43 am
amother OP wrote:
Couldn’t find the matchmaker one but got her other two books. Hope I like!


So do I! But I think you will x
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