{"id":10289,"date":"2025-04-03T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=10289"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:19:55","slug":"rbtw-book-list-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2025\/04\/03\/rbtw-book-list-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"RBTW Book List March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The March meeting was fun, as usual! Our next meet up is on Thursday, April 4th.<\/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

March’s Book List:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Death on Tap by Ellie Alexander<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When Sloan Krause walks in on her husband, Mac, screwing the barmaid, she gives him the boot. Sloan has spent her life in Leavenworth, Washington becoming an expert in brewing craft beer, and she doesn\u2019t have time to be held back by her soon-to-be ex-husband. She decides to strike out on her own, breaking away from the Krause family brewery, and goes to work for Nitro, the hip new nano-brewery in the Bavarian-themed town. Nitro\u2019s owner, brewmaster Garrett Strong, has the brew-world abuzz with his newest recipe, \u201cPucker-Up IPA.\u201d This place is the new cool place in town, and Mac can\u2019t help but be green with envy at their success.<\/p>\n

But just as Sloan is settling in to her new gig, she finds one of Nitro\u2019s competitors dead in the fermenting tub, clutching the secret recipe for the IPA. When Mac, is arrested, Sloan knows that her ex might be a cheater, but a murderer? No way. Danger is brewing in Beervaria and suddenly Sloan is on the case.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Goodreads Choice Award<\/span><\/div>\n

Winner for Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction (2024)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel (2024)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all:<\/b><\/p>\n

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she\u2019ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering \u201cexpats\u201d from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible\u2014for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.<\/p>\n

She is tasked with working as a \u201cbridge\u201d: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as \u201c1847\u201d or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin\u2019s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he\u2019s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as \u201cwashing machines,\u201d \u201cSpotify,\u201d and \u201cthe collapse of the British Empire.\u201d But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.<\/p>\n

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry\u2019s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how\u2014and whether she believes\u2014what she does next can change the future.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\"\"The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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A four-year-old Mi\u2019kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.<\/b><\/p>\n

July 1962. A Mi\u2019kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family\u2019s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister\u2019s disappearance for years to come.<\/p>\n

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren\u2019t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.<\/p>\n

For readers of\u00a0The Vanishing Half<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Woman of Light<\/i>, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\"\"The Housemaid by Freida McFadden<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2022)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cWelcome to the family,\u201d Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I\u2019ll soon learn that the Winchesters\u2019 secrets are far more dangerous than my own\u2026<\/p>\n

Every day I clean the Winchesters\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it\u2019s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina\u2019s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.<\/p>\n

I only try on one of Nina\u2019s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it\u2019s like. But she soon finds out\u2026 and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it\u2019s far too late.<\/p>\n

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don\u2019t know who I really am.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t know what I\u2019m capable of\u2026<\/p>\n

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won\u2019t be able to put this down!<\/span><\/div>\n

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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years<\/a> by<\/span> Sarah L. Delany<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>A. Elizabeth Delany<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Amy Hill Hearth<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In their 200+ combined years, Sadie and Bessie Delany have seen it all. They saw their father, who was born into slavery, become America’s first black Episcopal bishop. They saw their mother–a woman of mixed racial parentage who was born free–give birth to ten children, all of whom would become college-educated, successful professionals in a time when blacks could scarcely expect to receive a high school diploma. They saw the post-Reconstruction South, the Jim Crow laws, Harlem’s Golden Age, and the Civil Rights movement–and, in their own feisty, wise, inimitable way, they’ve got a lot to say about it.More than a firsthand account of black American history, “Having Our Say” teaches us about surviving, thriving, and embracing life, no matter what obstacles are in our way.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Every Breath<\/a> by<\/span> Nicholas Sparks<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the romantic tradition of\u00a0The Notebook<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Nights in Rodanthe<\/i>, #1\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals — transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of fate.<\/b><\/p>\n

Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family’s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.<\/p>\n

Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother’s early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable . . . but in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.<\/p>\n

Illuminating life’s heartbreaking regrets and enduring hope,\u00a0Every Breath<\/i>\u00a0explores the many facets of love that lay claim to our deepest loyalties — and asks the question,\u00a0How long can a dream survive?<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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Bury Your Dead<\/a>\u00a0 by <\/span>Louise Penny<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society – where an obsessive historian’s quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it?<\/p>\n

Although he is supposed to be on leave, Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. “It doesn’t make sense,” Olivier\u2019s partner writes every day. “He didn’t do it, you know.” As past and present collide in this astonishing novel, Gamache must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs<\/a> by <\/span>Mo Rocca<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From beloved CBS\u00a0Sunday Morning<\/i>\u00a0correspondent Mo Rocca, author of\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/i>bestseller\u00a0Mobituaries,<\/i>\u00a0comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering\u2014breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records\u2014and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father. (Take that, Al Pacino!)<\/p>\n

In the vein of\u00a0Mobituaries<\/i>,\u00a0Roctogenarians<\/i>\u00a0is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans\u2014some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Rita Moreno, the EGOT who\u2019s still got it). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there\u2019s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes finding the right word takes time.)<\/p>\n

With passion and wonder Rocca and Greenberg recount the stories of yesterday\u2019s and today\u2019s strongest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls, some people will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle Getty was sixty-two when she got her big break. And yes, she\u2019s in the book.)<\/span><\/div>\n

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The Let Them Theory<\/a> by <\/span>Mel Robbins<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words\u2014Let Them<\/i>\u2014will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you.\u00a0The Let Them Theory<\/i>\u00a0puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands\u2014and this book will show you exactly how to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her latest groundbreaking book,\u00a0The Let Them Theory<\/i>, Mel Robbins\u2014New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author and one of the world’s most respected experts on motivation, confidence, and mindset\u2014teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can’t control and start focusing on what truly YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that’s made\u00a0The Mel Robbins Podcast<\/i>\u00a0a global sensation, Robbins explains why\u00a0The Let Them Theory<\/i>\u00a0is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact. Within a few pages, you’ll realize how much energy and time you’ve been wasting trying to control the wrong things\u2014at work, in relationships, and in pursuing your goals\u2014and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness, and ancient wisdom who champion\u00a0The Let Them Theory<\/i>\u00a0every step of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn how<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Stop wasting energy on things you can’t control Stop comparing yourself to other peopleBreak free from fear and self-doubtRelease the grip of people’s expectationsBuild the best friendships of your lifeCreate the love you deservePursue what truly matters to you with confidenceBuild resilience against everyday stressors and distractionsDefine your own path to success, joy, and fulfillment. . . and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Let Them Theory<\/i>\u00a0will forever change the way you think about relationships, control, and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter, or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.<\/span>
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The March meeting was fun, as usual! Our next meet up is on Thursday, April 4th. Our Reading Between the Wines book club meets on the 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Stable Winery in Andover, OH. You “bring your own book” and share it with the group. It is fun…<\/span><\/p>\n

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