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Book Nook
Here's What Our Book Clubs Are Reading
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Into the Fall by Tamara Miller
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Secrets She Carried by Barbara Davis
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Too Old for This by Samantha Downing
The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Space Between by Sarah Ready
Into the Fall
by Tamara Miller
From debut author Tamara L. Miller comes a suspenseful psychological thriller tracking the mysteries of a seemingly mundane life as they come to light in the vast, unforgiving Canadian wilderness.
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For better or for worse, Sarah Anderson has it all: a thriving career, a nice home in Ottawa, two young kids…and a marriage coming apart at the seams.
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Then her husband, Matthew, vanishes without a trace during a family vacation up north.
Into the Fall by Tamara L. Miller is a gripping thriller that hooks readers from the very first page and doesn’t let go until the final twist.
The Berry Pickers
by Amanda Peters
The author is 44 years old from Nova Scotia Canada and is mixed race of Mi'Kang Indian and French heritage. Her family were berry pickers in Maine in the 60's and 70's. She has a Masters in Fine Arts and Creative Writing and currently is teaching Creative Writing in Toronto. The Berry Pickers is her first novel. She has won many awards for this novel including the Andrew Carnegie medal, Barnes and Noble best 10 novel, and Amazons First Book award. She has done many interviews and has added facts such as she is a descendant of accused witches, a revolutionary war sailor, a reader of books and a teller of tales.
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"I couldn’t put this book down, not only because I was eager for the mystery to be completed, but also because it is so beautifully written, with every phrase deserving of the yellow highlighting I give to especially lovely passages."
The Secrets She Carried
by Barbara Davis
Though Peak Plantation has been in her family for generations, Leslie Nichols can’t wait to rid herself of the farm left to her by her estranged grandmother Maggie—and with it the disturbing memories of her mother’s death, her father’s disgrace, and her unhappy childhood. But Leslie isn’t the only one with a claim to Peak.
Jay Davenport, Peak’s reclusive caretaker, has his own reasons for holding onto the land bequeathed to him by Leslie’s grandmother. Before she died, Maggie hinted at a terrible secret surrounding Adele Laveau, a lady’s maid who came to Peak during the 1930s and died under mysterious circumstances. Jay is haunted by Maggie’s story, yet the truth eludes him—until Leslie uncovers a cryptically marked grave on the property.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following his debut The Kite Runner, and it chronicles the intertwined lives of two Afghan women across decades of war and oppression. Mariam, a harami (illegitimate child), and Laila endure forced marriages, Taliban brutality, and personal tragedies in Kabul, forging a bond that highlights resilience and sacrifice.
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The story spans from the 1970s Soviet invasion through the Taliban's reign to post-2001 changes, weaving historical events into the women's domestic struggles against abuse and loss. Mariam's early hardships lead to a stifling marriage with Rasheed, while Laila's modern upbringing collides with similar fates, culminating in acts of profound loyalty amid violence and hope.
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love.
Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited—- her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.
Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction
Too Old for This
by Samantha Downing
Too Old for This is a 2025 thriller by Samantha Downing, featuring Lottie Jones, a 75-year-old retired serial killer living quietly in a small town after changing her identity decades ago. Her peaceful routine of bingo and church gossip shatters when journalist Plum Dixon arrives, probing Lottie's past links to unsolved murders, forcing her to kill again to protect her secret amid escalating complications.
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Lottie, acquitted but suspected in 1980s killings, faces Plum's podcast ambitions, leading to a botched murder that draws in detectives, family, and her old nemesis. Flashbacks reveal her past spree, while present-day chaos involves body disposal, blackmail, and hip surgery woes, blending dark humor with tense cat-and-mouse games.
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“Equal parts hilarious and disturbing, Too Old for This kept me glued to the pages from beginning to end!”
—#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden
Angry Housewives Eating
Bon Bons
by Lorna Lanvik
The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delicious desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial “club” that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful years.
This stalwart group of friends depicts a special slice of American life, of stay-at-home days and new careers, of children and grandchildren, of bold beginnings and second chances, in which the power of forgiveness, understanding, and the perfectly timed giggle fit is the CPR that mends broken hearts and shattered dreams.
“A lively story as delectable as a five-pound box of chocolates . . . a thoroughly engaging chronicle of friendship and the substantive place it holds in women’s lives.”
The Quiet Tenant
by Clémence Michallon
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New York town where he lives. He’s the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. But Aidan has a dark secret he’s been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. He’s a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there’s a ninth he has earmarked for death: Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed, fearing for her life.
A pulse-pounding psychologial thriller about a serial killer Narrated by those closest to him.
The People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily Henry
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
I giggled through the first third of People We Meet on Vacation. This “friends to lovers” theme is a perfect summer read that includes relationship substance and romance.
People We Meet on Vacation is a sparkling, heartfelt romance that perfectly balances laughter and emotional depth.
The Space Between
by Sarah Ready
The Space Between is a 2023 contemporary romance by Sarah Ready, spanning nearly two decades in the epic love story of wealthy Manhattan heiress Andrea Leighton-Hughes and Bronx musician Jace Morgan, whose Central Park meeting ignites a destined bond tested by family pressures, betrayal, and life's cruel separations. Despite promising "forever," external forces tear them apart, leading to a climactic wedding interruption where Jace pleads "don't," forcing Andrea to choose between true love and obligation.
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Andrea defies her manipulative elite family for Jace, whose musical ambitions clash with street-tough realities, creating a saga of longing, redemption, and found family amid fame, loss, and reunion. Flashbacks and dual perspectives reveal their passion against obstacles like class divides and broken promises, culminating in a heartfelt test of enduring love.