“ THE UNLIKELY TALE OF CHASE AND FINNEGAN” BY JASMINE WARGA
FICTION“ Hollow bones” by Jodi Picoult
“ THIS DARK NIGHT: EMILY BRONTE, A LIFE” BY DEBORAH LUTZ
ROMANCE“ JUST FRIENDS” BY HALEY PHAM
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“ THE UNLIKELY TALE OF CHASE AND FINNEGAN” BY JASMINE WARGA
Finnegan is a rescue dog with a broken heart.
Chase is an anxious cheetah cub, newly orphaned.
The two animals couldn’ t be more different. But one day, they are brought together for the unlikeliest of Finnegan must help Chase gain the confidence she needs to perform as part of an educational program for children at a zoo.
Finnegan and Chase have each suffered losses and have trouble trusting. Yet somehow, they are just what the other needs. But if Finnegan isn’ t able to help Chase overcome her fears, he won’ t just be letting Chase down – he could be risking his new home as well.
FICTION“ Hollow bones” by Jodi Picoult
On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’ t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters. Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse— a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis— have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.
Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
This book publishes in September.
ROMANCE
“ THIS DARK NIGHT: EMILY BRONTE, A LIFE” BY DEBORAH LUTZ
Emily Brontë( 1818 – 1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’ s masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë— an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss( and likely destruction) of almost all her personal papers.
Drawing on formerly inaccessible notebooks and manuscripts, This Dark Night constructs a portrait of Brontë, her famous writing sisters Charlotte and Anne, and the effect of their sisters’ and mother’ s tragic deaths.
ROMANCE“ JUST FRIENDS” BY HALEY PHAM
Blair and Declan were inseparable growing up— best friends who knew each other better than anyone else. But when an impulsive kiss took them from friends to something more, everything changed. Just as quickly as their romance started, one moment shattered it all, leaving them with nothing but heartbreak and silence. Now, four years later, Blair is back in their coastal hometown of Seabrook to support her mom and care for her great-aunt Lottie as her health declines. To make ends meet, Blair applies to work at a coffee shop— only to discover it’ s managed by none other than Declan. As Blair’ s path keeps crossing with Declan’ s, old wounds resurface, secrets are revealed, and sparks reignite. But could their future ever be free of their past?
Told in dual timelines that unravel the magic and pain of first love.
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