Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Nevermore: Foster, Better Bones Better Body, Grimm Curiosities

 



Reported by Rita

 

Foster by Claire Keegan

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds warmth and affection she has not known before, and she slowly blossoms in their care.

Short and sweet.    - DC   4 stars

 

Better Bones, Better Body: Beyond Estrogen and Calcium: a Comprehensive Self-help Program for Preventing, Halting, and Overcoming Osteoporosis by Susan E. Brown

Challenging traditional assumptions that estrogen and calcium deficiencies are the only causes of osteoporosis, this book explores the disorder from a broader perspective that includes lifestyle and exercise.

Filled with incredibly helpful information.   - MD  5 stars

 


Grimm Curiosities  by Sharon Lynn Fisher

In Victorian England, a young woman inherits her father’s curiosity shop and all its ghostly secrets in a bewitching novel by the author of Salt & Broom.

Absolutely wonderful. Couldn't put it down!    - MH    5 stars

 

 

Other Books Mentioned

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny Reichert

How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea: Learn to Gauge Depth, Navigate, Forecast Weather, and Make Other Predictions with Water by Tristan Gooley

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Unspeakable: Talks With David Talbot About the Most Forbidden Topics in America by Chris Hedges

In Your Face: a Cartoonist at Work by Doug Marlette

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

You Gotta Eat: Real-life Strategies for Feeding Yourself when Cooking Feels Impossible by Margaret Eby

The Change: a Novel by Kirsten Miller

 

New Books

Lies on the Serpent's Tongue by Kate Pearsall

We Shall Be Monsters: a novel by Alyssa Wees

Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff

People of Means: a Novel by Nancy Johnson

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