September 11: Spells for Forget ting by Adrienne Young
\nEmery Blackwood&rsquo\;s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life\, August Salt\, was accused of murdering her. Years later\, s he is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet ex istence on the misty\, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the fam ily&rsquo\;s business\, Blackwood&rsquo\;s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics &\; Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island\, rooted in folklore and magic\, b egins to show signs of strange happenings\, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse ha s turned color in a single night\, August returns for the first time in fo urteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.
\nAugust knows he is not welcome on Saiorse\, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard\, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods\, shaking the bedrock of thei r tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother&rsquo\;s ashes\, he must confront the people who turned th eir backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never heale d&mdash\;Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone\ , and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generat ions threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily&rsquo\;s mysterious death on ce and for all.
\nCounts for Jax Stacks Category: Book Read by a Lib rary Book Club\, Book from a Library Display
\nOctober 9 : T o Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
\nHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South &mdash\;and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred . \; \; A gripping\, heart-wrenching\, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice\, it views a wo rld of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl \, as her father&mdash\;a crusading local lawyer&mdash\;risks everything t o defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
\nCounts for Jax Stacks Categories: A Book Written Before 2000\, First Book in a Se ries\, Book Read by a Library Book Club\, Book from a Library Display
\ nNovember 13: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
\nThis time\, set at sea. In this tightly wound\, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works\, Lo Blacklock\, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine\, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The s ky is clear\, the waters calm\, and the veneered\, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship\, the Aurora\, begins her voyage in the picture sque North Sea. At first\, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins a re plush\, the dinner parties are sparkling\, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on\, frigid winds whip the deck\, gray skies fall\, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying night mare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain a ccounted for--and so\, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened\, desp ite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly\, terribly wrong.
\nCounts for Jax Stacks Category: First Book in a Series\, A Mystery Set Outside the U.S.\, A Book Read by a Libra ry Book Club\, A Book from a Library Display
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