Tuesday\, July 25\, 2023: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
\nOn the eve of her fortieth birthday\, Alice's life is n't terrible. She likes her job\, even if it isn't exactly the one she exp ected. She's happy with her apartment\, her romantic status\, and her inde pendence\, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is aili ng\, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning\, she finds herself back in 1996\, reliving her sixteenth bi rthday. But it isn't just her adolescent body that shocks her\, or seeing her high school crush--it's her dad\, the vital\, charming\, forty-somethi ng version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new p erspective on her own life and his\, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
\nTuesday\, A ugust 22\, 2023: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
\n< p>"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is com pletely silent one weekday morning\, until a woman's terrified scream echo es through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct every one inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear\, four strangers who had been sitting in the readi ng room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet\, Marigold\, Whit\, and Caine each have their own reasons for being in the reading room that morning--and it just happens that one of them may turn out to be a m urderer. For readers of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore\, with shad es of The Secret History\, The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twi sty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most dangerous weapons of all."-- Provi ded by publisher.\nTuesday\, September 26\, 2023: Olive Kitteredge by Elizabeth Strout
\nAt times stern\, at other times patient\, at times perceptive\, at othe r times in sad denial\, Olive Kitteridge\, a retired schoolteacher\, deplo res the changes in her little town of Crosby\, Maine\, and in the world at large\, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance\; a former student who has lo st the will to live\; Olive's own adult child\, who feels tyrannized by he r irrational sensitivities\; and her husband\, Henry\, who finds his loyal ty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems\, mild and dire\, Olive is brought to a deeper unders tanding of herself and her life--sometimes painfully\, but always with rut hless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human co ndition--its conflicts\, its tragedies and joys\, and the endurance it req uires.
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