This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6569392?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXdoZXJlJTJCdGhlJTJCcmVkJTJCZmVybiUyQmdyb3dz   The annotation from BARD is below:   Where the red fern grows: the story of two dogs and a boy DB32449 Author: Rawls, Wilson Reading Time: 7 hours, 11 minutes Read by: David Palmer Subject: Animals and Wildlife   Ten-year-old Billy, a country boy in the Ozarks, wants a pair of coonhounds so badly that he works hard for two years to pay for them. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1961.   Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1987, c1961.   Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6577346?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPW91ciUyQmxpdHRsZSUyQnNlY3JldA   The annotation from BARD is below:   Our little secret DB126128 Author: Jackson, Lisa Reading Time: 15 hours, 4 minutes Read by: Cavallero, Gabriella Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Psychological Fiction   “Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand. He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go. Little more than a year later, Brooke wants to believe it’s all behind her. Her family has survived intact. Gideon has vanished. But the fear hasn’t disappeared. Brooke can’t tell how much of it is paranoia, and how much is justified, but she’s worried. And maybe she’s right to be. Because Gideon is a man who keeps his promises…” — Amazon.com Violence, strong language and some descriptions of sex.   New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2024.   Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com

This book is not available on Bookshare.   The annotation from BARD is below:   When the day comes DB125107 Series: Timeless Order in Series: 01 Author: Meyer, Gabrielle Reading Time: 12 hours, 29 minutes Read by: Rachel Botchan Subjects: Historical Fiction, Religious Fiction, Romance, Human Relations   “Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other without any time passing. She has one conscious mind but two very different lives and bodies. In colonial Williamsburg, Libby is a public printer for the House of Burgesses and the Royal Governor, trying to provide for her family and support the Patriot cause. The man she loves, Henry Montgomery, has his own secrets. As the revolution draws near, both their lives – and any hope of love – are put in jeopardy. Libby’s life in 1914 New York is filled with wealth, drawing room conversations, and bachelors. But the only work she cares about – women’s suffrage – is discouraged, and her mother is intent on marrying her off to an undesirable English marquess. The growing talk of war in Europe further complicates matters and forces her to make sacrifices she never imagined. On her twenty-first birthday, Libby must choose one path and forfeit the other forever – but how can she possibly choose when she has so much to lose in each life?”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   [United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2022.   Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com   We hope you’ll join us to discuss this great book.

Novel Ideas with Hostess Randi Shelton. The Last Year of the War by Susan Meisner DB94293.

This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6186195?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPWNvdW50aW5nJTJCbWlyYWNsZXM The synopsis from BARD is below: Counting miracles: a novel DB124452 Author: Sparks, Nicholas Reading Time: 10 hours, 49 minutes Read by: Holter Graham, Nicholas Sparks Subjects: Human Relations, Romance “From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change-or even make our peace with–the path we’ve taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew-and where to find him. Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He’s been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, exciting–and possibly leaving in just a few weeks. Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forest-a creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfather-he becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers. As these characters’ fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle … but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. New York : Penguin Random House, 2024. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com We hope you’ll join us to discuss this great book.  

Novel Ideas meets 3/21/25 at 8pm Eastern and will be discussing the book The Kennedy Debutante DB108271by Kerri Maher. Due to confusion locating this book by title on the BARD website, we incorrectly identified the March book to be discussed as Kathleen Kennedy, her life and times DB20590 at the 2/21/25 meeting. We will be discussing The Kennedy Debutante instead which is Randi’s first choice. This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/2745687?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQktlbm5lZHklMkJEZWJ1dGFudGU The synopsis from BARD is below: The Kennedy debutante DB108271 Author: Maher, Kerri Reading Time: 12 hours, 24 minutes Read by: Julia Whelan Subject: Historical Fiction London, 1938. Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy is the effervescent It girl of London society since her father was named the ambassador. Eager to escape the watchful eye of her family, Kick is ready to strike out on her own and is soon swept off her feet by Billy Hartington, the future Duke of Devonshire. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. [New York, NY] : Penguin Audio, 2018. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com   We hope you’ll join us to discuss this great book.  

This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/619162?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUJlZm9yZSUyQnRoZSUyQnN0b3Jt The synopsis from BARD is below: Before the storm DB120402 Author: Chamberlain, Diane Reading Time: 11 hours, 37 minutes Read by: Kris Koscheski, Abby Craden Subjects: Women, Human Relations, Family “Laural Lockwood’s 15-year-old son Andy is “special”. She lost him once through neglect, but is determined to make up for her mistakes. When she allows Andy to attend a local church social she is terrified when the church is consumed by fire. Andy survives and saves other children as well. Initially Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero but when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son, and how far she’ll go to keep her promise to protect him forever.”– OCLC. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Don Mills, Ont. : Tantor Media, Inc., 2014. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

Novel Ideas will be discussing the book Truths I never told you DB102014 by Kelly Rimmer. This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5242675?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRydXRocyUyQkklMkJuZXZlciUyQnRvbGQlMkJ5b3U   The synopsis from BARD is below:   Truths I never told you DB102014 Author: Rimmer, Kelly Reading Time: 11 hours, 44 minutes Read by: Jean Ann Douglass Subject: Historical Fiction   Beth is cleaning her father’s home after settling him in a care facility and discovers loose pieces of a journal in her mother’s handwriting from the 1950s. Beth grew up believing her mother died in a car accident, but the journal hints at a darker truth. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.   [United States] : Harlequin Audio/Recorded Books, 2020.   Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6194073?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQmNocmlzdG1hcyUyQmlubg   The synopsis from BARD is below:   The Christmas inn: a novel DB124450 Author: Kelley, Pamela M. Reading Time: 8 hours, 45 minutes Read by: Stephanie Németh-Parker Subjects: Holidays, Romance, Family   Explore delightfully cozy and joyful novel of second chances at the most wonderful time of the year, from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Kelley. A feel-good as delightful and comforting as a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter’s night, The Christmas Inn is bestselling author pamela Kelley’s most heart warming magical book yet.   Riley Sanders didn’t plan on losing her job as a content marketing manager right before Christmas. When she calls her sister Amy to vent, she learns that their mother has broken her leg and could really use some help at the inn. Riley decides to head home to the inn, nestled along the shores of Cape Cod, in time for the Christmas rush. She is happy to help and needs something to distract her as mistletoe is hung and snowflakes begin to fall. When she gets there, she not only finds delicious cookies and a crackling fire to lift her spirits, but also the sense of family she’s been missing all along. There’s franny, a woman who has just lost her sister and has four unopened letters from her that she plans to use to open her up to new experiences on the cape. and there’s aidan, her high school sweetheart, now a widower, who is staying at the inn with his nine-year-old son, luke. What begins as quick stay over the holidays to help her mom turns into something that means much more-a second chance at romance, a deeper sense of found family, and all the joy and wonder that comes with Christmastime on Cape Cod.   Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

Novel Ideas will be discussing the book The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman. DBC 02517. Guest host Carla Hayes will lead us in the discussion. This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1015328?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQmxvc3QlMkJ3aWZl The synopsis from BARD is below: During the last moments of prewar Prague, two young students fall in love and marry, only to be torn apart — their dreams shattered by the Nazi Invasion. decades later and thousands of miles away, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition and and the realization that providence has given Lencha and Josef one more chance. Guest host: carla Hayes Email” Lengual@verizon.net Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com We hope you’ll join us to discuss this great book.

This book is available on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6026156?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPW1pbmQlMkJnYW1lcw   The synopsis from BARD is below:   “As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother’s. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie’s handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they’re about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken from the same nightmare. And though the two have never discussed the special kind of sight they share, they know as soon as their tearful eyes meet that something terrible has happened. The kids will be staying with Grammie now in Redbud Hollow, and thanks to Thea’s vision, their parents’ killer will spend his life in supermax. Over time, Thea will make friends, build a career, find love. But that ability to see into minds and souls still lurks within her, and though Grammie calls it a gift, it feels more like a curse–because the inmate who shattered her childhood has the same ability. Thea can hear his twisted thoughts and witness his evil acts from miles away. He knows it, and hungers for vengeance. A long, silent battle will be waged between them–and eventually bring them face to face, and head to head”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Date: Friday October 18 2024   Time: 5:00 PM Pacific, 6:00 PM Mountain, 7:00 PM Central, 8:00 PM Eastern and elsewhere in the world Saturday 00:00 GMT.   We hope you’ll join us to discuss this great book.  

As we’ve done the last few years, Novel Ideas will be taking the months of July and August off. Whether you’re going to the summer conferences, enjoying a vacation with family or friends, or just staying home, have a wonderful summer! When we meet in September, we will be discussing A Little Ray Of Sunshine by Kristan Higgins. DB 115175. This book is available on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5982941?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUElMkJMaXR0bGUlMkJSYXklMkJPZiUyQlN1bnNoaW5lJTJC The Synopsis from BARD is below: A kid walks into your bookstore and. Guess what? He’s your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! And a huge surprise it is. It’s a huge surprise for his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother. Without a word to her or his dad. It’s also a surprise to say the least to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed her baby for adoption so many years ago. She’s spent the years since then building a quiet life. She runs a bookstore with her grandfather, hangs out with her four younger siblings and is more or less happily single, though she can’t help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, her old friend from high school. He’s moved back to town, three-year-old daughter in tow, no wife in the picture. But she’s always figured her life had to be child-free, so that complicates things. When Matthew walks into Harlow’s store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptions about what being a parent really means explode. This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined. And as both women learn that for them, there’s no limit to a mother’s love. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

Marisol Cruz can’t understand what happened to her life, and more importantly, her dreams. She is a single mother living with her parents in Santa Cruz, barely making a living by selling raffle tickets on the Boardwalk. But when she stumbles across the obituary of Violet Harcourt, a young beauty queen from the area who died seventy years ago and has a mysterious connection to Marisol’s grandfather, her curiosity is awakened. Accompanied by Jason, a recent transplant from Chicago who is struggling to adjust to casual California life, Marisol sets out to discover more about Violet’s life, and in the process, she gains a new appreciation for her hometown and her family. Unrated. Commercial audio book. In this new novel from the author of The Dressmaker’s Dowry, two young women two generations apart discover the joy and heartbreak of following their dreams. Aspiring Hollywood actress Violet makes a shocking choice in 1940, and seventy years later, Mari sets out to discover what happened on that long ago summer. Santa Cruz, Summer 1940: When auburn-haired Violet Harcourt is crowned Miss California on the boardwalk of her hometown, she knows she is one step closer to her cherished dream: a Hollywood screen test. But Violet’s victory comes with a price–discord in her seemingly perfect marriage–and she grapples with how much more she is willing to pay. Summer 2007: Single mother Marisol Cruz lives with her parents in the charming beach cottage that belonged to her grandfather, Ricardo, once a famed performer on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Drawn to the town’s local history and the quaint gazebo where her grandparents danced beneath the stars, Mari sells raffle tickets at the Beach Boardwalk Centennial Celebration, and meets Jason, a California transplant from Chicago. When Mari discovers the obituary of Violet Harcourt, a beauty queen who died too young, she and Jason are sent on a journey together that will uncover her grandfather’s lifelong secret–his connection to Violet–a story of tragedy and courage that will forever transform them. Additional subjects: Missing persons California Los Angeles Fiction; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Here is the Bookshare link to this title: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5994364?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUJvYXJkd2FsayUyQlN1bW1lcg Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

Novel Ideas will be discussing Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. DB 116555 The synopsis from Bookshare is below. In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. Here’s the Bookshare link to this title: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5666619?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRvbSUyQmxha2U Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com  

This book isn’t available on Bookshare. The BARD Annotation is below.     1806: Astrid Pool sits in her bridal clothes overwhelmed with happiness, but before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him. Graphic designer Sonya Mactavish bis stunned to learn that her alate father had a twin he never knew about and that her newly discovered uncle Collin Pool has left her almost everything he owned including the Majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast which the will stipulates she must live in for at least three years. Her engagement recently broke, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light. Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor notes Sonya’s unease and acknowledges that yes the place is haunted but just a little. Sure enough Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle’s office and a portrait of a woman named Astrid whom the lawyer refers to as the first lost bride. It’s becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries old curse and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta, E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com  

Novel Ideas will be discussing Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham. DBC 28910 The synopsis from Bookshare is below. Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham’s signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out. NLS annotation Tumbleweeds: a novel DBC28910 Meacham, Leila Reading time: 14 hours, 57 minutes. Angèle Masters A production of Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Talking Book Program. Sports Fiction Romance “Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham’s signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.” — Publisher description. Commercial audiobook. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some violence. Strong language. Bookshare link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4081480?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXR1bWJsZXdlZWRz Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta, E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com  

Don’t miss the New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that’s burning up Instagram and TikTok—Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity. Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of… NLS Annotation The housemaid DB114201 McFadden, Freida Reading time: 10 hours, 7 minutes. Sandra Murphy Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Bestsellers Psychological Fiction “Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…” — Provided by publisher. Violence, strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. Bookshare Link https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5416627?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQmhvdXNlbWFpZA Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta, E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com  

The Synopsis from Bookshare is below.   From the bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the occupation. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. <it. a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time. <p><time.and gut-wrenching novel” (Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author) you won’t soon forget, The Paris Daughter is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhoo, a likelove. Here’s the NLS annotation: The Paris daughter DB115102 Harmel, Kristin; Maby, Madeleine Reading time: 11 hours, 53 minutes. Madeleine Maby; Kristin Harmel Friendship Fiction Historical Fiction Women War Stories “Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. This book can be found on Bookshare at this link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5490294?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQnBhcmlzJTJCZGF1Z2h0ZXI Host: Randi Shelton   E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com   Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,   E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com

This book is not available on Bookshare, but the commercial version is on BARD. The BARD synopsis is below. When Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in a tiny Louisiana town deep in Bayou country in 1949, she knows her life will change—but she could never imagine just how dramatically_ Though rightfully suspicious of outsiders, who hathreatenedted both their language and their unique culture, most of the residents come to appriciate the young and idealistic schoolteacher and she’s soon teaching just about everyone, despite opposition from both the school board and a poltician with ulterior motives. Yet itthethd lessons Ellie herself will learn—from new friends, a captivating Cajun fisherman, and even a legendary white alligator haunting the bayou—that will make all the difference. Take a step away from the familiar and enter the shadowy waters of bayou country for a story of risk, resilience, and romance. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta, E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com

We had a great discussion of Haven in September. When we meet October 20th, we will be discussing The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple. DB 104366 This book is not on Bookshare but is on Audible for those who have Audible accounts. The annotation from BARD is below. The five wishes of Mr. Murray McBride DB104366 Siple, Joe Reading time: 8 hours, 22 minutes. David Hartley-Margolin General With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Some strong language. 2018. Host: Randi Shelton E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta, E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com