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BEYOND THE PALE
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Love Finds You in Sunset Beach, Hawaii by Robin Jones Gunn - Review
Book Synopsis: Sierra came to Sunset Beach for relaxation—not for world-class surfing and certainly not for romance! When a wealthy...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 27, 20242 min read
The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki - Review
Book Synopsis: Everyone knows Benedict Arnold--the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British--as history's...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 11, 20243 min read
(SPOILERS) Swing by Kwame Alexander - Review
Book Synopsis: Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 29, 20243 min read
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau - Review
Book Synopsis: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 5, 20243 min read
(SPOILERS) On Little Wings by Regina Sirois - Review
Book Synopsis: Jennifer is an only child, and so were her parents—at least that's what she thinks, until she finds an old photo in the...
Lyra Thompson
Jul 30, 20243 min read
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - Review
Book Synopsis: 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures the desperation sweeping the...
Lyra Thompson
Jun 4, 20243 min read
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais - Review
About the Book: Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if that wasn’t hard...
Lyra Thompson
May 27, 20243 min read
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith - Review
Book Synopsis: Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of...
Lyra Thompson
May 18, 20242 min read
(SPOILERS) Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer - Review
Book Synopsis: Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in...
Lyra Thompson
Apr 10, 20243 min read
Always Emily by Michaela MacColl - Review
Book Synopsis: Emily and Charlotte Brontë are about as opposite as two sisters can be. Charlotte is practical and cautious; Emily is...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 13, 20243 min read
(SPOILERS) Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - Review
Book Synopsis: While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the...
Lyra Thompson
Feb 22, 20243 min read
Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve - Review
Book Synopsis: MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the creators of the...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 21, 20243 min read
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen - Review
Book Synopsis: Sydney has always felt invisible. She's grown accustomed to her brother, Peyton, being the focus of the family’s attention...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 3, 20244 min read
The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews - Review
Book Synopsis: When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life....
Lyra Thompson
Dec 26, 20234 min read
(SPOILERS) Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith - Review
Book Synopsis: Let luck find you. Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 30, 20233 min read
(SPOILERS) The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord - Review
Book Synopsis: When it all falls apart, who can you believe in? Everything is going right for Lucy Hansson, until her mom’s cancer...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 7, 20235 min read
Emma by Jane Austen - Review
Synopsis: Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma...
Lyra Thompson
Oct 1, 20233 min read
(SPOILERS) Sunset Lullaby (Christy and Todd: The Baby Years #3) by Robing Jones Gunn - Review
Book Synopsis: Christy’s life with Todd and their two little ones in their cozy Newport Beach cottage is everything she ever hoped for....
Lyra Thompson
Sep 26, 20233 min read
(SPOILERS) Salty Kisses (Christy and Todd: The Baby Years #2) by Robin Jones Gunn - Review
Book Synopsis: Christy is elated when her best friend arrives in Newport Beach. Although the reason for Katie’s journey from Kenya is...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 3, 20232 min read
The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck
Book Synopsis: An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewrite their own stories....
Lyra Thompson
Aug 24, 20233 min read
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