by Augusta Admin | Dec 9, 2024 | Book Chat
Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died; the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home city of Avignon, spends...
by Augusta Admin | Dec 2, 2024 | Book Chat
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of...
by Augusta Admin | Nov 26, 2024 | Book Chat
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges! A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could...
by Augusta Admin | Nov 18, 2024 | Book Chat
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead...
by Augusta Admin | Nov 14, 2024 | Book Chat
I read this book a couple years ago, as we were coming out of the pandemic. It had been a long couple years for me, when my son purchased this book and told me it was a “must read.” It did not look like my typical read and I was hesitant, but I found this book to be...
by Augusta Admin | Nov 13, 2024 | Book Chat
Summary A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An...