{"id":10175,"date":"2025-02-28T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=10175"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:44:05","slug":"reading-between-the-wines-february-2025-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2025\/02\/28\/reading-between-the-wines-february-2025-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Between the Wines \u2022 February 2025 List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our group was smaller than usual in February. Weather, illness, and other concerns kept many of our regulars away. Here’s hoping for good weather, healthy friends, and less stressful days in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Reading Between the Wines book club meets on the 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Stable Winery<\/a><\/strong> in Andover, OH. You “bring your own book” and share it with the group. It is fun and casual. There’s no need to stress about finishing that book club book. We hope you join us!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s our list from February:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer<\/em> <\/a>by Maxie Dara<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes it takes working with the dead to start living.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex’s baby. She’s also a modern-day grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), but frankly that’s the easiest part of her life right now. Or at least it was, until her latest client’s soul goes missing.<\/span><\/p>\n

When she finally tracks down seventeen-year-old Conner Ortiz, he angrily denies he died of natural causes, despite what his file says. He insists that someone at S.C.Y.T.H.E. murdered him, and he demands Kathy find out who and why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy has only forty-five days to figure out what happened to Conner and help him move on before the boy’s soul is doomed to roam the Earth as a ghost forever. She\u2019s forced to rely on the help of her retired mentor, her almost ex-husband\u2014and some sneaky moves by Conner himself. This is the wildest case of her career. . .and one wrong move could cost Kathy her job, not to mention her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The Line Tender<\/em><\/a> by Kate Allen<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Line Tender<\/i>\u00a0is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research her late mother began. She must follow the sharks.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart\u2019s marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, preparing to swim with a Great White, when she died suddenly. Lucy was eight. Since then Lucy and her father have done OK\u2014thanks in large part to her best friend, Fred, and a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a Great White\u2014and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was \u201cmeaningful\u201d but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother\u2019s unfinished research. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she\u2019ll finally be able to look beyond what she\u2019s lost and toward what\u2019s left to be discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em>Dolly Parton Behind the Seams<\/em> <\/a>by Dolly Parton<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton\u2019s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive<\/span><\/p>\n

In Behind the My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.<\/span>
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\nFeaturing behind-the-scenes stories from Dolly Parton\u2019s life and career, and the largest reveal of her private costume archive, this gorgeously photographed book\u00a0spotlights her most unforgettable looks from the 1960s to now. The\u00a0sky-high heels, famous wigs, bold makeup, eye-catching stage clothes\u2014she shares them all. Along the way, Parton discusses memorable outfits from her past, from the clothes her mother would sew out of feed sacks (including her\u00a0\u201cCoat of Many Colors\u201d) and the bold dresses and hairdos that shook up Nashville, to the bunny suit on the cover of Playboy, evening wear at Studio 54, costumes from her most famous film and TV roles, and the daring styles that continue to entertain and inspire today.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nFilled with candor, humor, and lots and lots of rhinestones, Behind the My Life in Rhinestones is a shining tribute to one of the most beloved musicians in history, a treasured keepsake for anyone who loves Dolly Parton, and an indispensable guide to forging your own path to beauty and confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet<\/em><\/a> by Jamie Ford<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s\u2014Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Furiously Happy<\/em> <\/a>by Jenny Lawson<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that \u2018normal people’ also might never understand. And that’s what Furiously Happy is all about.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Jenny\u2019s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books. Furiously Happy appeals to Jenny’s core fan base but also transcends it. There are so many people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family\u2014and in Furiously Happy they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon). Let’s Pretend This Never Happened ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family. Furiously Happy is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it’s about joy\u2014and who doesn’t want a bit more of that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our group was smaller than usual in February. Weather, illness, and other concerns kept many of our regulars away. Here’s hoping for good weather, healthy friends, and less stressful days in March. Our Reading Between the Wines book club meets on the 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Stable Winery in…<\/span><\/p>\n

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