Get Ready to Swoon Over These New Reads
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Just in time for Valentine's Day, we've got three new Book Club in a Bag selections that your group is sure to fall in love with! Keep reading for summaries and reviews of our latest picks, including the much-talked about
American Dirt, an Oprah's Book Club selection, and more!
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
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Lydia Quixano Perez lives in Acapulco, Mexico. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband, who is a journalist. She runs a bookstore in town, where she stocks some of her all-time favorite books, despite knowing that they’ll never sell. And then one day, a man enters the shop to browse and comes to the register with four books he’d like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel whose gruesome deeds have taken over Acapulco. When Lydia’s husbands tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and 8-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence, instantly transformed into migrants, making their way north toward the United States, the only place Javier’s reach doesn’t extend.
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Evvie Drake Starts Over
by Linda Holmes
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In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Evvie Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn’t correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, a former major-league pitcher and Andy’s childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and he can’t figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button. When Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken--and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more.
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Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
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The iconic Olive Kitteridge struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire moments of transcendent grace.
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