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1806: Astrid Pool sits in her bridal clothes overwhelmed with happiness, but before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him.
Graphic designer Sonya Mactavish bis stunned to learn that her alate father had a twin he never knew about and that her newly discovered uncle Collin Pool has left her almost everything he owned including the Majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast which the will stipulates she must live in for at least three years. Her engagement recently broke, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light. Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor notes Sonya’s unease and acknowledges that yes the place is haunted but just a little. Sure enough Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle’s office and a portrait of a woman named Astrid whom the lawyer refers to as the first lost bride. It’s becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries old curse and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it.
Host: Randi Shelton
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Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,
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Novel Ideas will be discussing Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham. DBC 28910 The synopsis from Bookshare is below.
Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham’s signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.
NLS annotation
Tumbleweeds: a novel DBC28910
Meacham, Leila Reading time: 14 hours, 57 minutes.
Angèle Masters A production of Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Talking Book Program.
Sports Fiction
Romance
“Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham’s signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.” — Publisher description. Commercial audiobook. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some violence. Strong language.
Bookshare link:
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Host: Randi Shelton
E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com
Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,
E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com
 

Don’t miss the New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that’s burning up Instagram and TikTok—Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity. Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…
NLS Annotation
The housemaid DB114201
McFadden, Freida Reading time: 10 hours, 7 minutes.
Sandra Murphy
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Bestsellers
Psychological Fiction
“Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…” — Provided by publisher. Violence, strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller.
Bookshare Link
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5416627?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQmhvdXNlbWFpZA
Host: Randi Shelton
E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com
Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,
E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com
 

The Synopsis from Bookshare is below.
 
From the bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the occupation. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. time.and gut-wrenching novel” (Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author) you won’t soon forget, The Paris Daughter is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhoo, a likelove.
Here’s the NLS annotation:
The Paris daughter DB115102
Harmel, Kristin; Maby, Madeleine Reading time: 11 hours, 53 minutes.
Madeleine Maby; Kristin Harmel
Friendship Fiction
Historical Fiction
Women
War Stories
“Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
This book can be found on Bookshare at this link:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5490294?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQnBhcmlzJTJCZGF1Z2h0ZXI
Host: Randi Shelton
 
E-Mail: rshelton820@gmail.com
 
Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,
 
E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com

This book is not available on Bookshare, but the commercial version is on BARD. The BARD synopsis is below.
When Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in a tiny Louisiana town deep in Bayou country in 1949, she knows her life will change—but she could never imagine just how dramatically_ Though rightfully suspicious of outsiders, who hathreatenedted both their language and their unique culture, most of the residents come to appriciate the young and idealistic schoolteacher and she’s soon teaching just about everyone, despite opposition from both the school board and a poltician with ulterior motives. Yet itthethd lessons Ellie herself will learn—from new friends, a captivating Cajun fisherman, and even a legendary white alligator haunting the bayou—that will make all the difference. Take a step away from the familiar and enter the shadowy waters of bayou country for a story of risk, resilience, and romance.
Host: Randi Shelton
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Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,
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We had a great discussion of Haven in September. When we meet October 20th, we will be discussing The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple. DB 104366 This book is not on Bookshare but is on Audible for those who have Audible accounts. The annotation from BARD is below.
The five wishes of Mr. Murray McBride DB104366
Siple, Joe Reading time: 8 hours, 22 minutes.
David Hartley-Margolin
General
With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Some strong language. 2018.
Host: Randi Shelton
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Co-Host Ruth ann Acosta,
E-Mail: ruth1244@gmail.com