Home Field is about a family in crisis. Dean is the football coach in a small town and is grieving his wife’s suicide. He has two young boys at home and a stepdaughter headed off to college, and everyone is acting out in their own way. The book marketing for Home Field got to me- […]
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This humorous book is an LA story about a reclusive writer, her eccentric young son, and the outsider sent in to look after them. Be Frank With Me is Julia Claiborne Johnson’s debut and it’s an entertaining crossover book about love and relationships, with a dash of Hollywood glamour. Mimi wrote a widely acclaimed once-in-a-lifetime […]
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Quinn has been marking the days since her boyfriend Trent’s untimely death. Her family wants her to move on, though Quinn thinks connecting with the boy who received Trent’s heart could give her the closure she seeks. Jessi Kirby’s fourth book is moving, sweet, and hopeful and has a great beach setting. The book tackles […]
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Molly returns to Star Lake for 99 days of summer, the summer before college. She’s back to the place where she broke the heart of her first love, Patrick, with his brother, Gabe. Returning to this small town after this scandal is hard enough- but since her mother wrote a best-selling book based on this […]
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Finding Jake is a tense, topical little book that centers on the aftermath of a school shooting. In a parent’s worst nightmare scenario, stay-at-home dad Simon hears that there was a shooting at his kids’ high school. All the students are accounted for except for his son Jake. Could he be one of the shooters? […]
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The band Sonic Youth formed in 1981 in New York, and they first got my attention with their 1988 breakthrough album Daydream Nation. Two of the founding members of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, were a couple and were married for 27 years. Fans were shocked when the indie rock Super Couple announced […]
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