At our very first Book Chat get-together we discussed the following books:
NONFICTION
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
A true crime book about the investigation of the Golden State Killer. The book was released on February 27, 2018, nearly two years after McNamara's death and two months before Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested in the case. In 2020, DeAngelo plead guilty to multiple charges, and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
FICTION
Seabreeze Summer
by Jan Moran
A sweet summer beach read and the second novel in the Summer Beach series after the Seabreeze Inn.
Mad Mabel
by Sally Hepworth
Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea—or a cutting remark. She minds her own business in her quiet Melbourne suburb, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying...
Hotel Portofino
by J.P. O'Connell
A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties.
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
A psychological thriller that follows three distinct lives that collide when a 17-year-old girl goes missing on Valentine's night, leaving a web of dark secrets, neighborhood suspicion, and psychological tension.
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
by Stephen O'Connor
A novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms.
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves (available in the New Reads section of our library)
by Stephen O'Connor
A heartrending story of love in a time of hatred, an absorbing investigation into the Nazis’ exploitation of psychoanalysis, and a cautionary tale about self-deception and the failures of a people to recognize the lies of their charismatic leader, "We Want So Much to Be Ourselves" examines the ways science can be corrupted and one’s very identity transformed by historical circumstance.
YA
A Thousand Kisses & A Thousand Broken Pieces
by Tillie Cole
"A Thousand Boy Kisses" is a young adult that tells the tragic romance of childhood sweethearts whose lives are shaped by terminal illness and death. After gaining attention on TikTok, the book became a bestseller. It is followed by a sequel, A Thousand Broken Pieces.
Thomas Jefferson dreams of Sally Hemings : a novelO'Connor, Stephen
NONFICTION
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
A true crime book about the investigation of the Golden State Killer. The book was released on February 27, 2018, nearly two years after McNamara's death and two months before Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested in the case. In 2020, DeAngelo plead guilty to multiple charges, and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
FICTION
Seabreeze Summer
by Jan Moran
A sweet summer beach read and the second novel in the Summer Beach series after the Seabreeze Inn.
Mad Mabel
by Sally Hepworth
Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea—or a cutting remark. She minds her own business in her quiet Melbourne suburb, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying...
Hotel Portofino
by J.P. O'Connell
A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties.
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
A psychological thriller that follows three distinct lives that collide when a 17-year-old girl goes missing on Valentine's night, leaving a web of dark secrets, neighborhood suspicion, and psychological tension.
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
by Stephen O'Connor
A novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms.
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves (available in the New Reads section of our library)
by Stephen O'Connor
A heartrending story of love in a time of hatred, an absorbing investigation into the Nazis’ exploitation of psychoanalysis, and a cautionary tale about self-deception and the failures of a people to recognize the lies of their charismatic leader, "We Want So Much to Be Ourselves" examines the ways science can be corrupted and one’s very identity transformed by historical circumstance.
YA
A Thousand Kisses & A Thousand Broken Pieces
by Tillie Cole
"A Thousand Boy Kisses" is a young adult that tells the tragic romance of childhood sweethearts whose lives are shaped by terminal illness and death. After gaining attention on TikTok, the book became a bestseller. It is followed by a sequel, A Thousand Broken Pieces.
Thomas Jefferson dreams of Sally Hemings : a novelO'Connor, Stephen
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