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Enjoy these four must-read books from our friends at Bookish, Fort Smith, Arkansas’s only independently owned bookstore. Shop hours: Monday 11am-4pm, Tuesday – Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-4pm. Need curbside delivery? Call 479.434.2917 or email orders@bookishfs.com.
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
by Annie Lyons
If you like Fredrick Backman’s A Man Called Ove, you’ll love Eudora Honeysett! Through dark British humor, this ultimately becomes a story of friendship and kindness. Eudora is quirky and fun, and Lyons’ message of the importance of the found family is a profound way to begin the New Year.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Set in a diner in present-day Tokyo, this is a time travel book with heart! There are several rules: You can only go back to a time that occurred in the diner, time starts once you pour the coffee and ends when the coffee gets cold, and several other tedious rules you are introduced to at the beginning of the novel. After the “world” introduction, the background characters slowly emerge in the foreground, and Kawaguchi connects their stories in fascinating and unexpected ways.
The Cold Millions
by Jess Walter
Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan do not have a penny to their names. Set in 1909 Spokane, Washinton, Walter sets scenes highlighting the tremendous chasm between the rich and the poor. The themes of family, class, identity, and morality permeate the illustrated language throughout. However, while the theme and subject are quite severe and oddly relevant, the characters and plot make reading the novel a rip-roaring good time. You will love Rye and his loudmouth brother the entire way through.
The Searcher
by Tana French
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. He is retired after twenty-five years on the Chicago police force and has just gone through a terrible divorce. All he wants is to find a good pub and be left alone. But that isn’t how memory works. When Cal meets a local kid, memories begin to flood in, and readers discover what exactly is troubling Cal. French recreates the very modern-day troubles we see in policing through Cal’s memories, and through it all, we must decide how we ultimately feel about Cal.
