Book club

For April bookclub

Showing 101 - 120 of 398  There are a total of 594 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "The guilt trip"
Star rating for The guilt trip
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
"In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones's explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page. Six friends. Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack's brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group...
Book cover for "Hamnet"
Star rating for Hamnet
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
Book cover for "A happier life"
Star rating for A happier life
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
"A young woman discovers the love and family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer at her grandparents' old house in North Carolina"--
Book cover for "Happiness for beginners"
Star rating for Happiness for beginners
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved...
Book cover for "Happy Again"
Star rating for Happy Again
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Ellie O'Neill and Graham Larkin fell hard for each other when a misspelled email address unexpectedly brought them together. Now, over a year has passed since they said goodbye with the promise to stay in touch, and their daily emails have dwindled to nothing. Ellie is a freshman in college and has told herself to move on, and Graham has kept himself busy starring in more movies, as well as a few tabloid columns. But fate brought these two together...
Book cover for "Happy Land"
Star rating for Happy Land
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"Inspired by distant memories of African kingdoms, a community of formerly enslaved men and women grasped freedom and started lives on mountain land that they owned. They worked hard, lived well, and loved there. For a time the kingdom thrived...and then it disappeared. Present Day. Nikki hasn't seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request...
Book cover for "Happy place"
Star rating for Happy place
Author:
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
Book cover for "Happy wife"
Star rating for Happy wife
Description:
"A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this ... novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill."--Provided by publisher. "A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this ... novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Heart and soul"
Star rating for Heart and soul
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. • "Good-hearted [and] entertaining." —The Washington Post

Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two...
Book cover for "Heart bones"
Star rating for Heart bones
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
Book cover for "Heartwood"
Star rating for Heartwood
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie,...
Book cover for "Hello, goodbye, and everything in between"
Star rating for Hello, goodbye, and everything in between
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
High school sweethearts Clare and Aidan spend the night before they leave for college reminiscing about their relationship and deciding whether they should stay together or break up.
Book cover for "Her mother's shadow"
Star rating for Her mother's shadow
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Lacey O'Neill, while trying to care for the rebellious daughter of her late best friend, finally learns the truth about her own mother's murder when a stranger arrives in the town of Kiss River, exposing the mysteries of the past.
Book cover for "Here one moment"
Star rating for Here one moment
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future--age 103!--and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away...
Book cover for "Hiding in the Light"
Star rating for Hiding in the Light
Author:
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Leaving Islam for Christianity cost her more than she imagined, but gave more than she could have dreamed.
Rifqa Bary grew up in a devout Muslim home, obediently following her parents’ orders to practice the rituals of Islam. But God was calling her to freedom and love. He was calling her to true faith. He was calling her to give up everything.
 
Hiding in the Light is the story of Rifqa’s remarkable spiritual...
Book cover for "His only wife"
Star rating for His only wife
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world"--
Book cover for "The honey-don't list"
Star rating for The honey-don't list
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
"Carey Duncan has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, Carey started in their first store at sixteen, and--more than anyone would suspect--has helped them build an empire. With a new show and a book about to launch, the Tripps are on the verge of superstardom. There's only one problem: America's favorite couple can't stand each other. James McCann, MIT graduate and engineering...
Book cover for "The horsewoman"
Star rating for The horsewoman
Average Rating:
2.9 stars
Description:
"Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe--mother and daughter, both champion riders--vowed to never, ever, go up against one another, until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics."--Dust jacket flap.
Book cover for "The house of mirth"
Star rating for The house of mirth
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:

The House of Mirth is an uncompromising depiction of 19th-century New York society. Lily Bart is a society lady who is unwilling to marry for love, but equally unwilling to marry as society dictates. She sabotages every advantageous opportunity she receives, until her society friends begin to hasten her downfall for their own ends.

Book cover for "How to keep house while drowning"
Star rating for How to keep house while drowning
Author:
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
"For anyone tired of staring at the same mess every day but struggling to find the time and willpower to fix it, popular therapist and Tiktok star KC Davis presents a revolutionary method of cleaning to end the stress-mess cycle"--