🎧💛🧡🩵 ☕️ In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she‘s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life.❤️💛🤍
Forth book in May❤️💛🧡 In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town 🇨🇦settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist.
One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad.
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The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary.
I have a lot of water 💦 to drink because I‘ve been so engross with this book today! Who knew…
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie.
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When frail but formidable former literature professor Arthur fails to show up to the library as usual, librarian Sloane, who recognizes him as a kindred spirit despite his cantankerousness, correctly guesses that he‘s sick and refusing help. Sloane pushes her way into Arthur‘s home, and his neighbor Maisey, part-time nurse Mateo, and grandson Greg soon follow.
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so he‘s relieved when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his steadiness.
Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.
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pickChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it‘s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
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🥰Reading some and listening some. Loving these voices!🎧☕️📖
❤️Decided to move this one up to March reads…since everyone is reading it now #Reesebookclub
I love historical fiction and this one is my jam. Don‘t know why it took me so long to pick it up!
Eva Santos Moon, the narrator of this captivating whodunit from Givhan (Jubilee), is haunted by the drowning of her childhood best friend, Karma Marquez, when they were both 15. Years later, Eva still can‘t remember whether she tried to save Karma or pushed her under the water. Consequently, Eva suffers from PTSD, marked by severe nightmares and blackouts.
Oprah‘s Bookclub pick up next💗
🎧Loved this one! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Picked up today at library definitely starting this the weekend!!
🎧started this at work today… so far👏🏽👏🏽
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎧Oh my this was excellent!
Did the devil really make him do it? That question haunts Dumas‘s stellar debut, a complex whydunit. American Grayson Hale, a University of Edinburgh postgraduate student, has been convicted of murdering a colleague, Liam Stewart, whose strangled corpse was found in a loch months after his disappearance.
Starting February 2023 #feedyourmindbookclub on Instagram. 🚢 Endurance ❄️❄️❄️❄️#alfredlansing
🎧Really love these books by Ruta Sepetys!❤️❤️❤️❤️
🎧📖 Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone‘s surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Last January read #4
In August of 1839, what appeared to be a listless "pirate ship", unidentified by any flag, was spotted off the North Atlantic coast of the United States. On board were thirty barely clad black men, all of whom wore cutlasses, and two white men -- Spanish slave owners with an incredible story to tell.
I think I have read every book of Kimberly Lawson Roby!😂
Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it‘s a rumor that just won‘t die.
🎧Barnes & Noble 1st book club of 2023.
🎧 “There is a girl, and her name is Sam.” So begins Allegra Goodman‘s moving and wise new novel.
Sam is seven years old and living in Beverley, Massachusetts. She adores her father, though he isn‘t around much.
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First book of 2023💕 #MichelleObama
✔️Headed toward the finish line with “Kindred” starting the series this week!📺
Re-reading Octavia Butler‘s “KINDRED” forty-three years since publication. A new Hulu series!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Absolutely loved this one! 💕💕💕
When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Very intriguing!!!
🎧 This was a very inspiring read!
In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ He is the Governor-elect of Maryland
🎧Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son‘s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, cigarettes smoked in the moonlight, hazy evenings in nightclubs, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself loosening and blossoming.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others.
Barnes & Noble book club October pick! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔆Enjoying the truths this one holds. #FreedYourMind Bookclub #instagram
Started finally after a 6 month hold at library for the audiobook. Yes reading and listening.💗
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Started listening 🎧yesterday can not 🛑 I‘m 95%💗💗💗💗
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥹Achingly beautiful a masterpiece and a tribute to an extraordinary marriage.
August book club pick for #feedyourmind Instagram book club.
⭐️⭐️There‘s a lot going on here🤔 I just couldn‘t connect the dots!
After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore — until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling.
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