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Gary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gary Baysinger
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Alsace, France 1770. Visit my ancestors before they left for America.
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A Kind of Homecoming
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What We Say in the Dark: A WW II Spy Thriller of Deception and Fate
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Margaret's Last Prayer: A World War II Family Saga
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| A beautifully written paean to the ecstasy and agony of being a female professional soccer player. The author takes on her journey to six different countries as she pursues her dream. Along the way, she takes us on an inner journey into the mind of a ...more | |
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| A book club choice. Imagine if you were caught in a video game and your life depended on having to battle a variety of monsters. That’s the premise of Matt Dinniman’s novel. The planet is subject to a universal calamity, which wipes out most of the i ...more | |
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| Another gem from master storyteller Willy Vlautin. A story of two lost souls searching for something without realizing they are searching for each other. Forty-year-old Eddie Wilkins’ wife has run off with another man. He copes by keeping his head do ...more | |
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How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. (Oliver Popp's Travel Guides to Murder, #1)
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| One of the benefits of being in a book club is that you often read books you normally would not. This is not a book I would have sought out. Sometimes, you are surprised. I quite enjoyed this book. It is a gay, romance, murder-mystery story. The main ...more | |
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| A Gothic ghost story about a haunted house in 1990’s Indiana. Newlywed Meg convinces her husband to buy an old house that she feels “drawn to”. After moving in, strange noises in the night, ghostly apparitions, and disturbing dreams, push her to the ...more | |
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| An intergenerational family story centered on a mother–daughter relationship. Based on real events, the author gives us a slice-of-life novel about two people whose life stories would have been lost to history. The book focuses on Gertie and her daug ...more | |
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| A book club choice. The novel focuses on how the lives of two young people are impacted by a single traumatic event. Patch and Saint are two young teenagers in Missouri, who form a friendship based on their status as outcasts. Patch is thrust into th ...more | |
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| A book club choice. This is a cold case murder mystery told from the P.O.V. of Lucy, the suspected killer. Lucy returns to the scene of the crime, her hometown. Five years have passed since Lucy’s best friend, Savannah, was murdered. Lucy claims to h ...more | |
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| Book club choice. A compelling story about the relationship between four teenagers in a small coastal town. Told in a series of flashbacks, the story initially focuses on one of the four teenagers who has become a world-famous painter. That narrative ...more | |
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| A thing of beauty. The author takes on the complexities of a long-term marriage and gets down in the nitty-gritty of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The marital history of Abe and Ruth Winter is unique and universal at the same time. Their relations ...more | |
“Heartbroken, that's what her friends told her, she was heartbroken. But she knew from her experience as a nurse in the war that hearts didn't break, they bruised and the invisible scars were easy to trace and resurrect the pain.”
― A Kind of Homecoming
― A Kind of Homecoming
“Heartbroken, that's what her friends told her, she was heartbroken. But she knew from her experience as a nurse in the war that hearts didn't break, they bruised and the invisible scars were easy to trace and resurrect the pain.”
― A Kind of Homecoming
― A Kind of Homecoming
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