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Laura’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Laura Resau
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The Queen of Water
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2011
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Red Glass
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2007
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22 editions
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The Lightning Queen
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2015
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11 editions
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The Indigo Notebook (Notebook, #1)
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2009
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19 editions
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What the Moon Saw
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2006
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17 editions
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Star in the Forest
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2010
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16 editions
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The Ruby Notebook (Notebook, #2)
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2010
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9 editions
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The Jade Notebook (Notebook, #3)
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2012
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6 editions
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Tree of Dreams
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2019
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7 editions
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The Alchemy of Flowers
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The Alchemy of Flowers: Magical Realism Book Club Fiction
Hello, my friends!
I’m over the moon to announce that The Alchemy of Flowers, my debut novel for adults, is coming with Harper Muse in summer 2025! The story is women’s fiction meets magical realism� here’s a bit about the book:
After years of infertility and heartbreak, Eloise Bourne finds a mysterious job in locked castle gardens in the south of France. She hopes to escape reminders of children b
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I was completely delighted by this heart-warming and suspenseful story–with mystery/thriller undercurrents–about a woman who enters a retirement community near Denver, still grieving over a decades-old loss. She dares to connect with neighbors, and t
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"This book made my heart ache, bloom, and laugh—often all at once. The author painted such a vivid picture of those gardens that I wanted to just go and live there...lol....It’s a cozy mystery wrapped in floral silk with a side of WTF is going on in t"
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"Very whimsical and captivating story. Every character had a heartbreaking story that led them to the secret garden on the road to recovery and a heartwarming found family."
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"Equal parts mystical, magical, heartbreaking, and bone chilling, 'The Alchemy of Flowers' tells the tale of an American woman named Eloise, who takes a mysterious position at the equally mysterious Les Jardins du Paradis in Provence.
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"An unusual want ad in a gardening magazine puts Eloise on the path to Paradise - as a gardener for the remote French estate where children are forbidden. Paradise is the answer Eloise has been looking for as a reprieve from her infertility and broken"
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Spirit Baby: Travels Through China on the Long Road to Motherhood
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| Spirit Baby is a deeply moving, lyrical, and personal memoir-meets-travelogue that brings us on an intense emotional journey while weaving in fascinating elements of Chinese culture. As a woman who’s experienced the devastation of infertility, I coul ...more | |
“I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.”
― The Queen of Water
― The Queen of Water
“Power is a tricky thing, mija. It can lift you up high on its wings and up into the sky where you feel invincible. But sometimes you forget the bigger thing that makes you fly. Without God, without love, you fall. You stop being grateful and humble, and you fall." pg. 230”
― The Indigo Notebook
― The Indigo Notebook
“Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.”
― The Indigo Notebook
― The Indigo Notebook
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What Book Shall We Read in July?
I have chosen books that are getting a lot of attention and were published in March and April. Please let me know if you think a book should be added to the list.
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I have chosen books that are getting a lot of attention and were published in March and April. Please let me know if you think a book should be added to the list.
If you get the chance, check and see what your library has before you vote.
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i'd just like to recommend "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy (Winner of the Booker Prize). I hope you cherish it as much as I did.
ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLING.