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| Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody CarlsonWith multiple narrators, including 60-something Honey, her husband CT, and their artist daughter Jewel, this moving story follows the family as they deal with CT's worsening dementia. To help out, Jewel and her 14-year-old daughter move to Oregon where they work to turn the family farmhouse into a bed-and-breakfast. Read-alikes: Katie Powner's A Flicker of Light and Pat Simmons' Lean On Me. |
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| Whispers of Fortune by Mary ConnealyIn 1874, recent Harvard Medical School graduate Brody MacKenzie has finally found his missing teen brothers after his widowed dad kicked them out. They're in California at Ellie Hart's ranch that educates and cares for orphans, but Brody's family's long obsession with hidden treasure soon finds them all on a suspenseful adventure. This romantic series starter is followed by Legends of Gold, out in June. |
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| The Filling Station by Vanessa MillerIn Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street area, high school senior Evelyn plans to study fashion in New York while her sister, new college graduate Margaret, is going to teach at a local school. But the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroys their neighborhood and their sense of safety. Finding refuge at a local filling station, they struggle with their faith and look for answers in this "novel that should be required reading" (Library Journal). |
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| An Overdue Match by Sarah MonzonAfter she develops alopecia and her fiancé breaks up with her, librarian Evangeline Kelly gives up on love for herself and plays matchmaker for library patrons instead. When leather-clad tattoo artist Tai Davis offers inside info on the locals if she'll go on a date with him, she reluctantly agrees. This charming 1st in the Checking Out Love series will please fans of Rebekah Millet's Kate Landry Has a Plan or Denise Hunter's A Novel Proposal. |
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| The Long March Home by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca LeeIn 1941, three Alabama friends (including a 16-year-old lying about his age) enlist in the military and are sent to the Philippines for basic training. The Japanese soon invade, leaving the trio fighting to survive the Bataan Death March as flashbacks depict their lives back home. Well-researched and action-packed, The Long March Home has realistic violence, mild profanity, and talk of mature subjects. "Stunning...a must-read literary triumph," raves Booklist. |
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| The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn GreenOutspoken trumpeter Maggie McCleod and beautiful violinist Catherine Duquette come from very different worlds, but both are relieved to be part of a small USO variety show for their own reasons. An unlikely friendship develops, though neither anticipates the difficult conditions and dangers they'll encounter performing so close to the front lines in 1943 North Africa. Try this next: Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin. |
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The summer of you and me
by Denise Hunter
Five years after her husband's death, Maggie returns to Seabrook to seek closure but is drawn into a mystery with her brother-in-law Josh, whose hidden love for her complicates their search for a man eerily resembling her late husband.
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| Embers in the London Sky by Sarah SundinAfter fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined. Try this next: Cathy Gohlke's The Medallion. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Oswego Public Library District
Montgomery Campus - 1111 Reading Drive, 60538Oswego Campus - 32 West Jefferson, 60543 (630) 554-3150
https://www.oswego.lib.il.us/
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