Diana is the store manager (and Poppy's owner!) While the locals seem to think that Diana is always at Forever Books, she can also often be found biking the roads of southwest Michigan. She enjoys reading anything of substance (no chick-lit, please), cookbooks, and she has a private book collection rivaling the store. She has three daughters who have inherited her love of books.
During the pandemic we find an aging screen writer holed up and his world is spinning quickly out of control. Could be his unhealthy eating, the diet pills he was prescribed, or the silly new screen play he's working on. His loving wife, Peaches, is worried! Totally loved this book, funny!
A sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary --an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America. Crow Mary sweeps across decades and the landscape of the upper West and Canada, showcasing the beauty of the natural world, while at the same time probing the intimacies of a marriage and one woman's heart.
Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.
Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a Great Aunt she begins to suspect had a secret. A riveting debut that explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through three connected women.
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hop from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel. Stunning.
This is an adorable story with multiple characters, all with mysterious backgrounds, several interconnecting. They come together in a small Southern resort town, famous for its marshmallow candy. With the help of some protecting ghosts, and annoying little birds, they may just find their way. Loved it!
Tracy, an overachieving forty-yr-old assistant high achool principal, is overjoyed at first when the currant principal is retiring, thinking she is a shoe-in for the job. Then things slowly take a turn, leaving Tracy wondering if she will ever get her due. Perotta gives us a witty story of suburban America.
Agnes is a celebrated children's author, who also writes a series for adults under a pen name. Now in her eighties, she is writing the last in the series and has writer's block. Time is running short for her, and she and her lifelong friend are fighting to save their beloved Fellowship Point before family and friends sell it off to a corporation who wants to build condominiums. I fell in love with the beauty of this story that deals with friendship, family, and love.
A stunning novel about two sheltered Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to America to make a new life, who find themselves trapped in the sultry, heonistic world of 1920s Havana.
Depression-era painter Val Welch travels westward to rural town of Dawes, Wyoming to create a mural for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. One day Eve flees with a valuable painting and Val is hired to track her down. By the author of Cold Mountain.
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.