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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Title: Daisy Jones & The Six Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Pages: 368 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada/ Ballantine Books Release Date: March 5, 2019 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo *Received an ARC for Review from Penguin Random House Canada* Summary ( Goodreads ) Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with th...

Waiting on Wednesday: First Comes Love by Emily Giffin

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Title: First Comes Love Author: Emily Giffin  Pages: 400 Genre: Contemporary  Publisher: Ballantine Books/Random House Canada Release Date: June 28, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the #1  New York Times bestselling author of  Something Borrowed, Where We Belong,  and The One & Only  introduces a pair of sisters who find themselves at a crossroads.   Growing up, Josie and Meredith Garland shared a loving, if sometimes contentious relationship. Josie was impulsive, spirited, and outgoing; Meredith hardworking, thoughtful, and reserved. When tragedy strikes their family, their different responses to the event splinter their delicate bond.   Fifteen years later, Josie and Meredith are in their late thirties, following very different paths. Josie, a first grade teacher, is single—and  this close  to swearing off dating for good. What she wants more than the right guy, howe...