An excellent read for anyone who plays chess and particularly for anyone who wants to improve their chess.

Historical fiction about newly freed slaves who used lost friends advertisements to try and find family members sold away to different masters. Interwoven with chapters about a modern day teacher who finds a way to interest her students in reading and learning about their history.

In this mystery, Jack Reacher is determined to figure out why a woman killed herself on a train. Even when everyone he meets threatens him to drop it, he keeps investigating.

An adopted girl is determined to find her birth mother when she turns 18. She has romantic notions that her father was a gentleman and her mother a servant on his estate. The truth is her father raped a young girt and then her mother murdered her but she still has a burning desire to be reunited with her. Meanwhile the father of the murdered girl is plotting his revenge. It all ends in tragedy.

Adorable! Just the kind of light New Year read we all need right now. Plowed through it in one day and was just so cute.

An audio book about love, loss, misunderstanding and a hostage situation that is resolved by kindness and understanding of all the anxious people.

An anti-gay ballot measure divides the town for a second time. THis time the ghost of a young woman brings the town together

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Read this book for upcoming Read and Rap. This book gave a child's perspective on the life and challenges of growing up during the depression. I really enjoyed learning about the development of Key West as a tourist destination as part of the New Deal. I hope I can go to visit someday!

This book is about taking for people who are rich and giving it to the people who are poor.