WW Book Club for November 12th — 18th, 2023: 7 Reads You Won’t Be Able to Put Down

Second-chance love, family drama and heartfelt charm…this book has it all! Years ago, Santiago “Saint” Vega walked away from Lola León to fulfill his military duty. Now, Lola returns to Humboldt Park to care for her grandfather and help the community. Before long, Saint and Lola are face-to-face again. What follows is a cute series of laugh-out-loud events — between two sparring grandpas — and lost love found.

A deliciously fun fall whodunit unfolds as Mae West practices for the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in an effort to stay healthy ahead of her wedding day. But she never expects to find an obituary card while out on the trail. Then things get even more shocking when there’s a murder! Mae vows to narrow down the suspects and track the killer — all while attempting to get along with her future mother-in-law.

Beloved author Janet Evanovich is known for her hilarious and high-stakes page-turners — and her latest in the bestselling Stephanie Plum series follows suit. This time, bounty hunter Stephanie is hired by jeweler Martin Plover to find his former security guard, Andy Manley, who he thinks stole diamonds out of his safe. What follows is chaos and an overnight stakeout with her mother and Grandma Mazur to find the fortune.

This magical, adventure-filled novel begins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and follows Inez Olivera. When Inez receives word of her parents’ deaths, she inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian. Wanting answers, she sails to Cairo with a golden ring her father had sent her before he passed. As she arrives, the magic connected to the ring leads her to uncover secrets and the truth about her parents’ disappearance.

Often, our first thoughts in the morning are of all the overwhelming and ongoing to-do’s we have to tackle in the hours to come. But Bible teacher and author Jackie Hill Perry’s new 60-day devotional was created as a tool to help women begin the day feeling peaceful, supported and loved and to help carry that assurance as a shield against all the challenges they may face. With inspiring reflections, beautiful Scripture and heartfelt prayers, each compelling prompt helps create a calm, nurturing moment upon waking…and, ultimately, more joy all day.

In this compelling mystery, Archeologist Syd Walker lives in Rhode Island, trying to protect the land’s indigenous past, even though she escaped her own. And while she swore she’d never go back, the past comes crawling back to get her when a skull is found near the crime scene, just as her sister, Emma Lou, goes missing. Syd knows she must return home, but she refuses to let her sister’s disappearance go ignored. As she digs for clues, she uncovers a secret string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades. Now to save her sister, she must expose that secret to the town, even though no one wants to face the truth.

Readers are transported into a fantasy world in bestselling author Alex Aster’s latest action-packed tale. After a crushing betrayal, the powerful Isla Crown yearns for a distraction and refuses to embrace her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. But as certain death races toward Lightlark and secrets from the past begin to unravel, Isla must weigh her responsibility to her people against the whims of the most dangerous traitor of all: her heart.