BOOK CLUB
Join Team Leaders Kacey and Anna in a recap and discussion of the monthly featured book. No matter how you like diving into stories - physical book, ebook, or audiobook - you’re welcome. We recommend that you check out your local library, thrifting, or even browsing apps like Libby when searching for a copy of each month's book. Anna & Kacey will cover a wide range of genres as they alternate months, creating a space that offers everyone something and maybe encourages you to try something new. If you have books you'd like to suggest, feel free to submit them
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
Author: Shelby Van Pelt
Mystery, Domestic Fiction, Humorous Fiction
January 26, 2025
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.
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The Seven Year Slip
Author: Ashley Poston
Romance, Fiction, Time Travel
February 23, 2025
So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.
And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.
Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.
Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.
After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
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Fourth Wing
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Fantasy
March 30, 2025
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die
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The Inmate
Author: Freida McFadden
Psychological Thriller
"The Inmate" by Freida McFadden is a psychological thriller about Brooke Sullivan, a nurse who starts working at a maximum-security prison only to find herself face-to-face with Shane Nelson, her dangerous ex from the past. As Brooke grapples with the manipulative world of inmates and her own traumatic history, she must uncover the truth to protect herself from the lurking dangers within the prison.
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Butcher & Blackbird
Author: Brynne Weaver
Romance
Butcher and Blackbird is a dark romantic comedy about two serial killers who kill serial killers falling in love. Rowan first meets Sloane while she's trapped in a cage with her latest victim. He's been dead for a couple days in the heat so she is READY to get out.
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The Serpent and The Wings of Night
Author: Carissa Broadbent
Fantasy, Romantasy , Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Fiction, Adult, Magic
The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.
But winning won’t be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.
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Practical Magic
Author: Alice Hoffman
FIction
In "Practical Magic" by Alice Hoffman, sisters Gillian and Sally Owens, raised by their witch aunts, struggle with a family curse that dooms the men they love. As they navigate their complex lives marked by magic and loss, the sisters uncover the strength of their bond and their own latent powers, ultimately working to break the curse that haunts their family.
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Firekeeper's Daughter
Author: Angeline Boulley
YA, mystery, thriller
As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in—both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When her family is struck by tragedy, Daunis puts her dreams on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother’s hockey team.
After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known?
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The Frozen River
Author: Ariel Lawhon
Mystery/Historical Fiction
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.