#TheBookloversLibrary #MadelineMartin #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that bring them together. Emma Taylor needs to find a job to support herself and her daughter. She is a single mom and there is a war going on and Germany is bombing England. She signs up to send her daughter, Olivia, to the countryside to escape the bombs.

#TheGodoftheWoods #LizMoore #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn‘t just any thirteen-year-old: she‘s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region‘s residents. And this isn‘t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara‘s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago

#TheBookshop #EvanFriss #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations. This was an interesting book about the history of bookstores.

#HouseofGlass #SarahPekkanen #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This was an interesting book that I enjoyed. The story was told by Stella. It was about Beth and Ian getting a divorce and Stella was suppose to find out who their daughter, Rose, was supposed to have custody of. She goes to their house and notices there is no glass in the house. Everything that usually has glass is now plexiglass.

#DeadSouls #AngelaMarsons #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This is the 6th installment of the Kim Stone series. There is discovered a suicide of Jeremy Roberts and Kim is forced to investigate with Tom Travis, DCI of West Mercia. Kim is not too happy about doing this investigation with Tom Travis but her boss insisted. Tom has been investigating a potential hate crime against Polish immigrant, Henryk Kowalski.

#ModernWarriors #PeteHegseth #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This is a collection of inspiring stories from, some of America's greatest heroes from highly decorated Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, marines, Purple Heart recipients, combat pilots, Medal of Honor recipients, and more. Together these stories and images provide an unvarnished representation of battlefield leadership, military morale, and the strain of war.

#BattleForTheAmericanMind #PeteHegseth #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

This is a book about the school system which is very progressive teaching our children to hate the society our ancestors built. The teachers are neglecting to teach math, english etc. They are focusing on capturing our children's minds for the radical left agenda. We need to uproot a century of miseducation and get back to the basics which we are lacking in America.

#TrunkMusic #MichaelConnelly #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #November2024

This is another great Harry Bosch novel with lots of twists that kept me turning the pages until the end. I liked that his love interest from The Black Echo shows up again. That was a pleasant surprise! I love Harry's lingo and expressions and they keep me chuckling to myself.

#AWomanMakesAPlan #MayeMusk #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #November2024

This is a very interesting book about Elon Musk's mother. She has been a model and a dietitian for many years. At 71 she is still modeling and has written this book about her life. She got married in her early 20's and had 3 children in 3 years. Her eldest son, Elon, at the age of 12 was reading encyclopedias.

#October2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 5 books for October with 1 Bingo.

#FromHereToTheGreatUnknown #LisaMariePresley #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

This is Lisa Marie Presley's story in her own words written by her daughter, Riley Keough. Lisa's story about smashing golf cars in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom with her father dead on the bathroom floor, about living in LA with her mom,

#TheTrap #AvaGlass #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

The Trap by Ava Glass. Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit. Her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning. Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait. How far will she go to catch the killer? This is a great series. I need to go back and read book 1 and 2 of this series.This novel is a spy thriller filled with politics

#TheMarriageHearse #KateEllis #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

Kirsten Harbourn is found murdered to death on her wedding day. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fiancé knew nothing about. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl made her wedding vows, and a few days later her bridegroom was found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. Are these murders linked?

#OnRecord1979 #GBrown #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

This is a very interesting book about the year in music on record 1979. It has 200 rare images of the bands, 100 interviews and insights from the year 1979. The book belongs in the library of every music fan and music institution. It is a great book to put on your coffee table as a reference book.

#TheHitchcockHotel #StephanieWrobel #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #October2024

A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel. To celebrate the hotel‘s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn‘t spoken to any of them in sixteen years.

#October2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

These are my books for October 2024.

#September2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 5 books for September 2024 with 0 Bingos. I spent most of September downsizing my books and so far I have sold 367 books.

#TheBriarClub #KateQuinn #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation‘s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences.

#AllTheColorsoftheDark #ChrisWhitaker #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding

#TheLockedRoom #EllyGriffiths #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

I enjoyed reading this book even though it was about the pandemic and covid. Elly met a new neighbor, Zoe, who went missing. Everyone was in locked down and Nelson was home by himself. Michelle was visiting her mother and when Michelle came home she told Nelson that she wants to have a talk. We will need to read the next book in order to find out the results of their talk

#TheBlackLoch #PeterMay #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of A Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.

#TheUnseenWorld #LizMoore #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #September2024

Ada Sibelius is homeschooled and raised by David, Her brilliant and socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980's era Boston. When his mind begins to falter, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues. She is now on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that takes her from childhood to adulthood. This story is highly emotional.

#September2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

These are my books for September 2024.

#August2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 9 books for August 2024 with 1 bingo.

#WhyKingsConfess #CSHarris #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #August2024

Dr. Damion Pelletan is killed and Sebastian is going to find out how and why. He plunges deep into the mystery of the lost Dauphin, the young prince who disappeared in the darkest days of the French Revolution. Hero is about ready to deliver her baby. Can Sebastian face the guilt from the past that is too terrible to consider?

#Heft #LizMoore #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024
#August2024

Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn‘t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel‘s mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur‘s.

#DearChild #RomyHousmann #BookSpinBingo #seriesLove2024 #August2024

This is a gripping psychological novel. It's a book filled with twists and turns that kept me reading until the very end. Matthias realizes that the girl is not Lena when a women turned up at the hospital. Hannah is the spitting image of Lena. The book is told from 3 different POV's - Lena, Hannah and Matthias. I'm looking forward to reading the next book by Romy Housmann.

#HappyBirthday

Hi Sherri! Love your homemade card! Very beautiful! Thanks! Eadie

#Thankyou #TheNightSwim #MeganGoldin #DaisyDarker #AliceFeeney #WhatComesAfter #JoanneTompkins

Thanks Sherri for my birthday present which arrived this morning in the mail. I can‘t wait to read the books and to try the lemon face mask! Thanks again for your thoughtfulness!
Eadie

#DetectiveUpLate #AdrianMcKinty #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #August2004

Detective Inspector Sean Duffy has a 15 year old girl he is trying to find. He uncovers an underground of men who seem to know her very well. Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water? The writing of this book is well done with plenty of humor. Sean has moved his family to Scotland and will commute.

#TheDarkWives #AnnCleeves #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #August2024

Vera, Joe and Rosie are searching for Josh, a staff member of a residents home. They need to find a 14 year old Chloe Spence to get to the truth. The book moves at a steady pace with multiple POV's from the team members. As usual, Ann Cleeves keeps the story close to her chest so it's hard to figure out what is going on until the very end of the book.

#KenBruen #JackTaylor
1. The Guards (2001)
2. The Killing of the Tinkers (2002)
3. The Magdalen Martyrs (2003)
4. The Dramatist (2004)
5. Priest (2006)
6. Cross (2007)
7. Sanctuary (2008)
8. The Devil (2010)
9. Headstone (2011)
10. Purgatory (2013)
11. Green Hill (2015)
12. Emerald Lie (2016)
13. The Ghosts of Galway (2017)
14. In The Galway Silence (2018)
15. Galway Girl (2019)
16. A Galway Epiphany
17. Galway Confidential
18. Galway‘s Edge

#HillbillyElegy #JDVance #August2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance‘s powerful origin story….
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America‘s white working class.

#TheChessmen #PeterMay #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #August2024

I thoroughly enjoyed this book as well as all the books in the trilogy. It's hard to say good bye to the island of Lewis and all the wonderful characters that we met on the island. They all seem like real people to me. Excellent plot which kept the pages turning and lots of surprises at the end. Peter May is one talented writer! read 2/8/15

DCI Banks
1 Gallows View (1987)
2 A Dedicated Man (1988)
3 A Necessary End (1989)
4 The Hanging Valley (1989)
5 Past Reason Hated (1991)
6 Wednesday's Child (1992)
7 Final Account (1994)
aka Dry Bones That Dream
8 Innocent Graves (1996)
9 Blood at the Root (1997)
aka Dead Right
10 In a Dry Season (1999)
11 Cold Is the Grave (2000)
12 Aftermath (2001)
13 Close to Home (2003)
14 Playing with Fire (2004)
15 Strange Affair (2005)

#TheLewisMan #PeterMay #August2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

The best features of this book were Peter May's beautiful writing and his description which made you feel like you were right there on the island witnessing everything that was happening. Also, I found the island and the people very interesting. It was a brilliant story with just enough mystery that kept me guessing until the very end. read 1/5/15

#TheBlackhouse #PeterMay #August2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I enjoyed this beautifully written book, The Blackhouse by Peter May, very much. It was an interesting view of an isolated island and its habitants.The characters were memorable and the story was a definite page-turner. The ending was not expected and a complete surprise. I look forward to reading the other books in the trilogy. 7/31/2014

#July2024 #AgonyHill #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

Book from July2024. This is the story of a barn fire located in Bethany, Vermont as Franklin Warren is relocated there in 1960. The fire killed Mr. Weber, member of the community that nobody liked. The people of Bethany Vermont have many secrets.

#August2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

These are my books for August 2024.

#July2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

I have read 7 books during July 2024 with 1 bingo.

#TheHousemaidIsWatching #FreidaMcFadden #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #July2024

Freida McFadden has written another Housemaid book. It's the 3rd in the series. I love her Housemaid books! Millie and her husband, Enzo, have moved into a new house with their 2 children, Ada 11 years old and Nico 9 years old. Their new neighbors, The Lowells, are strange people.

#InTheWind #RonPetersonJr #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #July2024

Janice Starr, a 23 year old student an Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA, goes missing. She was an army veteran in the ROTC program. Kay Schucker, the only woman on the Chesapeake Police force, takes on the case to find Janice Starr. Her ROTC professor, Dwight Beddingfield had an affair with Janice.

#LastNightatVillaLucia #SimonMccleave #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #july2024

Cerys has bought Villa Lucia in Tuscany. Harry is found murdered in the Villa's pool. The police descend on the property in order to discover who killed Harry. Can Cerys uncover the truth before everything shatters around her? The story is in multiple timelines. The characters were unique. I liked some of them but disliked others.

#LessonsinChemistry #BonnieGarmus #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #July2024

Elizabeth Lott is a chemist. She is a single mother who is the most beloved star of a cooking show called "Supper at Six." Her unusual approach to cooking "one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride" proves revolutionary. Elizabeth is not just teaching women to cook, she's daring them to change the status quo.

#TrumpInExile #MeridithMcGraw #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #July2024

I enjoyed reading this book about Trump in exile after he loss the 2020 election to Joe Biden. The Democratic Party fooled us into believing that everything was ok with Joe Biden but we sadly all watched his failing mental ability leading to decisions that led to our failing economy.

#DarkTide #EdnaCowellMartin #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #July2024

I have read all the books about Ted Bundy but I really enjoyed this one. Dark Tide is about Ted's growing up and living with his cousin, Edna Cowell. She remembers having fun with him while living in Puget Sound, near Seattle Washington. She only recalls a couple of times that she saw Ted's dark side.

#TheDemonOfUnrest #ErikLarson #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #July2024

Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln‘s election and the Confederacy‘s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals.

#BookSpinBingo #SerialLove2024 #July2024

These are my books for July 2024.

#BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #June2024

I read 8 books during June 2024 and made 1 Bingo.

#ChurchillInTheWhiteHouse #RobertSchmuhl #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #June2024

Winston Churchill visited the White House many times during his two terms as prime minister. He met with FDR and Dwight D. Eisenhower and shaped American foreign policy during the Second World War. He arrived after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had a great relationship with FDR but not so much with Eisenhower.