Lake Bluff Library Adult Reading Lists: Reese's Book Club

Clare Bast's love of art saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan's Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. (description from NoveList)

A breathtaking reimagining of Cinderella, as told through the eyes of its iconic evil stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go to for her children.
(Description from NoveList)

The nation is riveted by the trial. Beloved TV star Anna Finbow accuses her daughter’s therapist, Jean Guest, of brainwashing Mary for profit. Jean claims Mary’s trauma stems from her upbringing and time at a prestigious art school in Rome. As the case unfolds, Augusta “Gus” Bird—Anna’s former employee—emerges as the key to unraveling lies.
(Description from NoveList)

Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.
(Description from NoveList)

"It’s New Year’s Day in Australia and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she’s in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she’s about to finally become more-than-friendly with Jack—when a helicopter abruptly lands. Out steps her grandmother’s right-hand-man, with the tragic news that her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident. Lexi’s grandmother happens to be the Queen of England, and in addition to the shock and grief, Lexi must now accept the reality that she is suddenly next in line for the throne—a role she has publicly disavowed." (description from publisher)

Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, an island near Antarctica, home to the world's largest seed bank. As they endure rising sea levels and isolation, a mysterious woman, Rowan, washes ashore during a severe storm. Nursing Rowan back to health, the Salts find hope, but secrets surface.
(Description from NoveList)

Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon.
(Description from NoveList)

Eve Ambroise may be a rising star playwright, but her personal life is falling part. But keeping up the lie that she's just on a writing retreat becomes near impossible. Coming off a contentious custody battle, Jamie Gallagher is restructuring what his life looks like as a single dad, and spending more days at his cabin makes his new "free time" a little less empty. Especially when he meets the beautiful-and prickly-woman next door. The last thing he needs is a new romance to shake up his family dynamics even more, but there's something about Eve.
(Description from catalog)

Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the “Lowe girls” are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill, but the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price.
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A hidden and nearly forgotten magic--of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life--holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.
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Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson are on Little Crescent Island to write the biography of the octogenarian who claims to be Margaret Ives - heiress, tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most scandalous families of the 20th century. Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story.
(Description from NoveList)

Anna’s dream of London’s elegance collides with harsh realities until the glamorous Wilders sweep her into their world of wealth, temptation and self-discovery, where she’s torn between her ambition, her identity and the allure of belonging.
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