Growing up, I was so close to my
great-grandmother that I chose a college near her. Shortly after I graduated,
she died. I wish I'd had this book then.
Cash's grandparents and best friend,
Delaney, are his life. When Delaney earns an elite scholarship, will Cash
follow her or stay with his dying Papaw? I am a sucker for friends-to-lovers
stories, and I loved the simmer between Cash and Delaney.
What got me right in
the gut, though, was the relationship between Cash and Papaw. The best scene is a memory of when Papaw
took Cash hunting—and Cash hated it. Papaw's response fractured my heart with
its beauty.
This is a book to help you mourn, showing how to live on without
letting go of any of the love.
I've always loved when the light finds the broken spots in the world and makes them beautiful . . .
Cash's life in his small Tennessee town is hard. He lost his mom to an opioid addiction and his grandfather's illness is getting worse. His smart but troubled best friend, Delaney, is his only salvation. But Delaney is meant for greater things, and she finds a way for Cash to leave with her. Will abandoning his old life be the thing that finally breaks Cash, or will it be the making of him?
I
confess that I started reading this book last year and put it down
after the first chapter. Heroine Jasmine Santos, who’s been chasing her figure
skating dreams for years without a gold medal to show for it, is a much more
bristly character than my usual reads.
But when I stumbled back onto this book
after seeing it in a BookTok display at my local bookstore, I decided to give
it another chance, and I’m so glad I did.
This is a fantastic slow-burn romance,
and you will not want to miss the scene where Jasmine and her
enemy-to-pairs-partner Ivan do the body-issue photo shoot for the sports magazine.
If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one.After seventeen years—and countless broken bones and broken promises—she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close.But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything.Including Ivan Lukov.
I
really, really love The Great British
Baking Show. And I loved Alexis Hall’s single-mum heroine, Rosaline Palmer,
just as much.
Her fierce love for her daughter had me rooting for her right from
the beginning and possibly sneaking a flashlight under the covers so I could
read in bed without waking my husband.
The book is both a love story and a
growth story, and the added fact that it reads like a novelization of The Great British Baking Show is a bonus
as delicious as a buttercream frosting.
'A dizzyingly talented writer' Entertainment Weekly
'Joyfully queer, absurdly funny and swoonily romantic' K J Charles
'Brilliance on every single page' Christina Lauren
LGBTQ Reads: Most Anticipated Adult LGBTQAP Fiction 2021 We Are Bookish: Spring Releases to Have on Your Radar _____________
A delicious romantic comedy by the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material, perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston, Christina Lauren, and Abby Jimenez.
As an expert baker, Rosaline Palmer is a big believer in always following the recipe. She's lived her life by that rule - well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter,…
Maddy Spier has been in love with the boy next door forever. As his figure skating partner, she spends time in his arms every day. But she's also seen his arms around other girls—lots of other girls.
Gabe can't imagine skating with anyone but Maddy; together, they have a real chance of winning some serious gold medals. So, he's determined to keep thinking of her like a sister. After all, he's never had a romantic relationship lasting more than two weeks.
But when their coach assigns a new romantic skating program, everything changes. Will this be the big break Maddy's been hoping for, or the big breakup Gabe has always feared?
My youngest has a grandma-granddaughter book club with my mother. Every time we visit, they read a novel together.
Her grandmother is a former children’s librarian, so the book picks are always top-of-the-line. I knew this book would be my daughter’s favorite read of the year when she said we needed to buy a copy for Grandma.
My daughter loved how the heroine of this book figured out how to work through the bullying she faced from other kids (and sometimes from her own family!) about her weight.
Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules - like "no making waves," "avoid eating in public," and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles." And she's found her safe space - her swimming pool - where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. It's also where she can get away from her pushy…
This is the final book in the series, and it just ties it all together so beautifully.
Wendell, the ghost child, has been trying to piece together the clues to figure out who killed him so he can move on. These clues come together to be something completely different than he thought, freeing a whole group of ghosts, and the illustrations in this graphic novel show the story so well.
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author picked
Lights
as one of their favorite books, and they share
why you should read it.
This book is for kids age
8,
9,
10, and
11.
What is this book about?
Following Brenna Thummler's bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novels Sheets and Delicates, Marjorie, Eliza, and Wendell the ghost are back to uncover the secrets of Wendell's human life in the third and final heartwarming installment of the Sheets trilogy.
Marjorie Glatt's life was forever changed the day she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. One of those ghosts was Wendell: a lonely phantom turned Marjorie's best friend. When he and Marjorie are joined by ghost-enthusiast Eliza Duncan, the three friends band together in friendship, bravery, and all things paranormal.
