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COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION - Future Book Pick Vote 📚
Cast Your Vote: Which Book Pick Sparks Your Interest the Most?
For March, I like to turn the page to books that challenge, inspire, and ignite conversations about stories shaping our world. Which one moves you?
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Click on the book you want to read the most.
Can you live without the internet? A teenage girl breaks free from her father's world of isolation in this novel of family, identity & the power we have to shape our own destinies. This is a story about a widower who removed his child from society to avoid its evils. Jessie’s world was her father, a cabin in the middle of nowhere, 19th-century books, and silence about the past. After a computer finally enters their home, Jessie uses it to document her father’s Manifesto and uncovers his monstrous secret. She flees to California, chasing her mother’s ghost to find answers. Can anyone really close themself off from society in the Age of The Internet? Or hide the truth?
In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sara finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sara than her own sister, or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl is her aunt, Cathy, who was one of six local North Carolina Black girls to go missing in the 1960s. For the last several decades, not a soul has talked about Cathy, or what really happened to her. Now that Sara is looking to start a family of her own, she is determined to unravel the truth behind her long-lost aunt and the sinister silence surrounding her. As she chases answers, her own fragile world (marriage, motherhood, sanity) starts to crack. The question isn’t just what happened to Carrie, it’s whether Sara can survive the answer.
Callie knows how to steal candy without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, and the perfect wall for handstands. Now she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, funny feeling in her belly. She doesn't get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. 15 yrs later, She is trying to be a good mom to young daughter, Maggie. She is always worried about affording food, school clothes, or about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all she worries that social services are going to take Maggie away. That's when the phone calls begin, which Callie is too afraid to answer, because it's clear the caller knows the truth about what happened all those years ago. And it's time to face the truth: is forgiveness and redemption ever possible for someone who has committed an atrocious act?