Category: Books

  • Shipwreck Girl

    Shipwreck Girl

    Shipwreck Girl by Jacqueline E Smith tells the story of Juliette Havens, a ballerina who is forced to drop out of New York’s prestigious Pace University after a devastating knee injury. Eight months later, while back at home attending University of California Long Beach, she receives the opportunity to dance in local punk band Sacramento Reign’s music video. It’s an opportunity, that, if she takes it, could change her life forever.

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  • Dune

    Dune

    Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction and fantasy novel Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, heir to a dukedom on a planet called Arrakis. But young Paul soon learns that not everything is as straightforward as it seems to be — or as he might think it should be.

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  • Trashy Suspense Novel

    Trashy Suspense Novel

    Jacqueline E. Smith’s Trashy Suspense Novel tells the story of Eloise Keller, owner of Blue Ridge Books in the small town of Cedar Ridge, North Carolina. Life with her six-year-old son Isaac is pretty routine and uneventful, until the local legend of the Bogman rears its head and a well-known horror novelist moves to town and sweeps her off her feet.

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  • Bridgerton:  The Duke and I

    Bridgerton: The Duke and I

    The inspiration for the first season of the Neflix series, Bridgerton: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn details the complicated relationship of Daphne Bridgerton, the fourth child and eldest daughter of the Bridgerton family, and Simon Basset, the reluctant Duke of Hastings who also happens to be Daphne’s older brother Anthony’s best friend.

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