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Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Three

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK THREE: September 16-22, 2024 Each Monday in September we’re voting on a prompt for our 2025 challenge. We’ve got the results from week one on our blog post here and are tallying the totals for week two right now! Were your votes finalists? This week’s vote may look a […]

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Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Finalists

2025 Prompt Finalists We’ve started voting on 2025 prompts and the results are trickling in! Each week in September, we’re voting on a different prompt for 2025. Vote on Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads, or all three! At the end of the week, results are tallied across all socials and our top two picks will be named

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Betrayal at Blackthorn Park

Book Review Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia KellyMystery | Historical Fiction | WWII After the first book in this series (A Traitor in Whitehall) hit my top ten favorite reads last year, Betrayal at Blackthorn Park quickly became one of my most-anticipated reads of 2024. So when the publisher reached out to let me

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Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Two

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK TWO: September 9-15, 2024 Each Monday in September we’re voting on a prompt for our 2025 challenge. We’re tallying the polls from last week and will have the results for you soon, but in the meantime, we’ve got a brand new prompt for you to vote on! How it

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Katherine, the Wright Sister

Book Review Katherine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson WoodHistorical Fiction | Fiction We’ve all heard about the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur. But have you heard of their sister, Katherine? Orville and Wilbur may have won the race to the first sustained, controlled flight but they couldn’t have done it without their little sister.

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September 2024 Mini-Challenge

September 2024 Mini-Challenge It’s time for a new mini-challenge! This month we have three new prompts inspired by the classic board game, Clue (Cluedo)! In this board game, players move around the board trying to solve a murder and figure out “whodunnit.” For this September mini we’ve narrowed down the suspects, eliminated locations and weapons

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Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week One

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK ONE: September 2-8, 2024 It’s September! Which means that we’re heading to The 52 Book Club polls! Every fall, we start prepping for the launch of the following year’s challenge. It’s hard work wrapped up in a lot of fun, and we love getting you involved in that process

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The Specimen

Book Review The Specimen by Jaima FixsenHistorical Fiction | Mystery Amongst Dr. Burnett’s collection of oddities and medical specimens sits a heart in a jar. To anyone else, this juvenile heart with its damaged mitral valve would simply be another exhibit to gawk at. But for Isabel Tait, a woman whose son has been missing

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The Booklover’s Library

Book Review The Booklover’s Library by Madeline MartinHistorical Fiction | WWII | Books about Books After reading Madeline Martin’s debut novel, The Last Bookshop in London, this author became an instant favorite. Her WWII novels are full of heart, history, sweet romance, and (often) books! So when I saw that The BookLover’s Library was about

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