Novel Ideas Book Group

Novel Ideas meets with an open forum to discuss a Christmas book, movie, or other Christmas topic of your choice.

The synopsis from Bookshare is below. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and

The synopsis from Bookshare is below. ‘I can tell we’re going to be the best of friends…’ When Louisa Sullivan takes her little boy to his first playdate at a new friend’s house she doesn’t realise life is about to change for her family. Because she’s about to meet Darcy Lane. Darcy is a woman

Our first Friday free for all went well in June. We hope to repeat it again at a future meeting. Novel Ideas will be taking July and August off. We hope everyone has a wonderful summer. When we meet in September, we will be discussing The Secrets of us. DB 105447 by Lucinda Berry. This

Novel Ideas will be trying something different in June. If all goes well, we hope to repeat this event periodically. Have you read a good book you’d like to share? Come join our first Friday Free-forAll on June 17th and tell us about it! Here are a few guidelines to keep in mind. Novel Ideas

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months

The Bookshare synopsis is below. The Vatican announces that the Virgin Mary will return to Lourdes this year to perform a miracle cure! Will it be a miracle? Or will it be a fraud? Precious lives, loves, and happiness are at stake: Ken Clayton: the young American who abandons medical treatment for the chance of

Adrian Rizzo is seven when she meets her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her—before her mother, Lina, stepped in. A decade later Adrian has created her own line of yoga and workout videos, but she starts getting threatening messages. Join us in this zoom meeting to discuss this

The synopsis from Bookshare is below. #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome”’in the creeping shadow of fascism What war destroys, only love can heal. Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season, and that 2022s a much better year for all of us. To kick off the new year, guest host Carla Hayes will lead us in the discussion of the book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. DB 100906. The synopsis from Bookshare is below. Between life and

It’s hard to believe the holidays are upon us. As we do every year, Novel Ideas will be discussing a Christmas book. This year it will be Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah. DBC16784 Here is the Bookshare link to this book: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1868087?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUNvbWZvcnQgJmFtcDsgSm95 The synopsis from BARD is below. School librarian Joy Candellaro takes an

From legendary storyteller and #1 bestseller Stephen King, whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the