{"id":10460,"date":"2025-06-03T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=10460"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:52:00","slug":"rbtw-book-list-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2025\/06\/03\/rbtw-book-list-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"RBTW Book List May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Better late than never? My apologies for just getting the May list out. Summer Reading prep got the better of me. I hope to see you all at our June Book Club event on Thursday, June 5th at 6:30 PM. We’ll even have some crafts if you like! ~ Maria<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Reading Between the Wines Book Club meets the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Stable Winery in Andover, Ohio. This is a BYOB group … Bring your own book. Read what you like and share your monthly bookish adventures with our book club friends.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Library Thief<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Kuchenga Shenji<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of\u00a0<\/b>Fingersmith<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b>The Confessions of Frannie Langton<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThe library is under lock and key. But its secrets can’t be contained.\u00a0<\/span>
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\n1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence’s father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame\u2014and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nIntercepting her father’s latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Lord Francis Belfield’s library is old and full of secrets\u2014but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThen one night, the library is broken into. Strangely, all the priceless tomes remain untouched. Florence is puzzled, until she discovers a half-burned book in the fireplace. She realizes with horror that someone has found and set fire to the secret diary of Lord Belfield’s wife\u2013which may hold the clue to her fate\u2026\u00a0<\/span>
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\nEvocative, arresting and tightly plotted,\u00a0The Library Thief<\/i>\u00a0is at once a propulsive Gothic mystery and a striking exploration of race, gender and self-discovery in Victorian England.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Walk<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Richard Paul Evans<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“My name is Alan Christoffersen. You don\u2019t know me. \u2018Just another book in the library,\u2019 my father would say. \u2018Unopened and unread.\u2019 You have no idea how far I\u2019ve come or what I\u2019ve lost. More important, you have no idea what I\u2019ve found.” \u2014Prologue\u00a0<\/span>
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\nWhat would you do if you lost everything\u2014your job, your home, and the love of your life\u2014all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he\u2019s tempted by his darkest thoughts. A bottle of pills in his hand and nothing left to live for, he plans to end his misery. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Al leaves behind all that he\u2019s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life\u2014and inspire yours.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunrise on the Reaping<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Suzanne Collins<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When you\u2019ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?\u00a0<\/span>
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\nAs the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nBack in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nWhen Haymitch\u2019s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He\u2019s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who\u2019s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he\u2019s been set up to fail. But there\u2019s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Everything is Tuberculosis<\/i><\/b><\/a> by John Green<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nIn 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nIn\u00a0Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry\u2019s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Frozen River<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Ariel Lawhon<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rubbernecker<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Belinda Bauer<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The dead can’t speak to us, Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. But no one hears what he does, and no one understands when he tries to tell them.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nLife is already strange enough for Patrick – being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges. And that’s before he is faced with solving a possible murder, especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place. Now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery. But as Patrick learns one truth from a dead man, he discovers there have been many other lies closer to home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Queen of Sugar Hill<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Reshonda Tate<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Queen of Sugar Hill\u00a0brings to life the powerful story of one woman who was driven by many passions\u2014ambition, love, sex, family, friendship, and equality. In re-creating Hattie\u2019s story, ReShonda Tate delivers an unforgettable novel of resilience, dedication, and determination\u2014about what it takes to achieve your dreams\u2014even when everything\u2014and everyone\u2014is against you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Stolen Marriage<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Diane Chamberlain<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello\u2019s life is changed forever.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nIt is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns to the baby\u2019s father for help and agrees to marry him, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina. Tess\u2019s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows her no affection. Tess quickly realizes she\u2019s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThe people of Hickory love and respect Henry but see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. When one of the town\u2019s golden girls dies in a terrible accident, everyone holds Tess responsible. But Henry keeps his secrets even closer now, though it seems that everyone knows something about him that Tess does not.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nWhen a sudden polio epidemic strikes Hickory, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital. Tess knows she is needed and defies Henry\u2019s wishes to begin working at there. Through this work, she begins to find purpose and meaning. Yet at home, Henry\u2019s actions grow more alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle the truth behind her husband\u2019s mysterious behavior and find the love\u2014and the life\u2014she was meant to have?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Remember When<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Mary Balogh<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Dowager Countess of Stratton, Clarissa Ware, n\u00e9e Greenfield, has just presented her younger daughter to the\u00a0ton, and the rest of her life belongs only to herself. She returns to Ravenswood, intending to spend the summer alone there. But the summer has other plans for her.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nBorn a gentleman, Matthew Taylor has chosen to spend his life as the village carpenter. Growing up, he and Clarissa were close\u2014dangerously so, considering his family\u2019s modest fortune. As a young man, he never would have been a suitable match for the daughter of the wealthy Greenfields. Clarissa married Caleb Ware, the Earl of Stratton, so Matthew married another, though he was widowed soon after.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nNow everything is different\u2014Clarissa has already lived the life expected of her by society. And Matthew is as attractive and intriguing as he was when they were young. As their summer friendship deepens into romance, they stand together on the precipice of change\u2014essentially the same man and woman they remember being back then, but with renewed passion and the potential to take their lives in an entirely new direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eddie Winston is Looking for Love<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Marianne Cronin<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and loved, but he has never been kissed.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nA true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love. It is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, at 24 years old, has just lost the love of her life.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nWhen Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nA tale of friendship and kindness that reminds us that those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Ornithologist\u2019s Field Guide to Love<\/i><\/b><\/a> by India Holton<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nBeth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that’s beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she sees it, and she is determined to keep her distance from Devon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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\nFor his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Professor Beth Pickering. She’s so pretty, so polite, so capable of bringing down a fiery, deadly bird using only her wits. In other words, an angel. Devon understands he must not get close to her, however, since they’re professional rivals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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\nWhen a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning.\u00a0Now keeping their distance becomes a question of one bed or two. But they must take the risk, because fowl play is afoot, and they can’t trust anyone else\u2014for all may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better late than never? My apologies for just getting the May list out. Summer Reading prep got the better of me. I hope to see you all at our June Book Club event on Thursday, June 5th at 6:30 PM. We’ll even have some crafts if you like! ~ Maria Our Reading Between the Wines…<\/span><\/p>\n

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