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“It was a beautiful thing to watch your best friend be loved in the way you know she deserves.” Teddy Andersen doesn’t have a plan. She’s never needed one before. She’s always been more of a go-with-the-flow type of girl, but for some reason, the flow doesn’t seem to be going her way this time.… Continue reading Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage
“It's okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn't make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.” Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It's a simpler head down,… Continue reading Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver
If you're looking for a nonfiction book to pick up, you need to read this one. It's a haunting and powerful examination of mental illness—specifically schizophrenia—told through the devastating story of one family. The narrative alternates between the Galvin family's personal story and the scientific developments around schizophrenia that unfolded during the same time. Don… Continue reading Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
“You don’t really die when your heart stops. You die when you’re forgotten.” Three months ago, Lena Nguyen’s estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official police version. But Lena isn’t buying it. Now… Continue reading Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
Dana Schwartz’s Immortality: A Love Story is a captivating sequel that continues the journey of Hazel Sinnett, a young woman defying the conventions of 19th-century society. After the heartbreaking events of Anatomy: A Love Story, Hazel is left grieving and alone, still committed to practicing medicine in secret. When she is unexpectedly arrested, she finds… Continue reading Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
Dana Schwartz delivers a darkly gothic and captivating tale in Anatomy: A Love Story, blending historical fiction, mystery, and slow-burn romance in 1817 Edinburgh. This one may start slow, but it definitely pays off. This atmospheric novel follows Hazel Sinnett, a young woman of privilege who dreams of becoming a surgeon—an ambition unheard of for… Continue reading Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
“I’m afraid of the unpredictability of existing.” Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships, at… Continue reading Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
At first, The River We Remember took me a little while to get into, but by the time I reached the end, I was completely invested. So much happened in those final chapters that it made the slower buildup worth it! Synopsis: On Memorial Day 1958, the small town of Jewel, Minnesota, is shaken when… Continue reading The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Enemies should never get a second chance. But this one might... It’s been twelve years since June last saw Ryan Henderson—the guy who won our high school war of wits and then had the nerve to dangle an almost-kiss over her like some cruel joke. I was so over it. Or at least, she thought… Continue reading The Enemy by Sarah Adams
“You are not who you are because of where you come from; you are who you are because of where you choose to go.” Keyanna “Key” MacKay is used to secrets. Raised by a single father who never divulged his past, it’s only after his death that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d… Continue reading Under Loch & Key by Lana Ferguson