Olive Kitteridgeby Elizabeth Strout 270 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Random HouseRelease Date: March 25, 2008My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other

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The Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins 336 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Riverhead BooksRelease Date: January 6, 2015My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people

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The Powerby Naomi Alderman 341 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Little, Brown and Company (on October 10, 2017)Release Date: October 27, 2016My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary ‘She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across

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My Sister, the Serial Killerby Oyinkan Braithwaite 226 pages, HardcoverPublisher:  Doubleday (on November 20, 2018)Release Date: July 17, 2018My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll

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“I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury… I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.” – “Where She Went” by Gayle Forman Spotlight on: ANGER The Ancient Greeks believed

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The Book of Lost Namesby Kristin Harmel 388 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Gallery BooksRelease Date: July 21, 2020My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she

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