Stacking The Shelves #73

Welcome to Stacking the Shelves #73! This meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Review and the last few years it’s been co-hosted at Team Tynga’s and at Reading Reality. Let me show you what I’ve added this week! Click on the book’s cover to add to your Goodreads shelf. 

Books Added From Fantastic Fiction:

From The Publisher:

For a gardener blessed with a green thumb, Savannah Collins’s life sure seems like it’s all thorns, zero roses. She has no job, no relationship, and no place to live. With nothing but a car full of plants and her new rescue kitten, Savannah heads to Bloom, North Carolina, to spend the summer with her beloved Aunt Eleanor, a retired librarian.

Her aunt shares her love of literature with the Finders Keepers Library, located in her beautiful garden, where anyone can stop by to pick a book or leave a book. When a sudden summer storm destroys the library and many of the roses, it will take a village to get everything ready for the garden wedding that is planned there in just three weeks.

As the entire town joins in to make the necessary repairs, Savannah bonds with their neighbor Evan Sanders over the books that Eleanor has handpicked for each of them, helping them both find healing and self-discovery. Savannah only intends to stay through the summer, but when an unexpected job offer, a sudden health crisis, and a wayward pre-teen push her future in new directions, she has to wonder whether this is the place that she is meant to be—and the family she’s meant to be with.

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From The Publisher:

A rising movie star reunites with his high school prom date, now a personal stylist, in this delightful rom-com for fans of forced proximity, second chances, and celebrity romance.

This has to be a joke. Stylist Marley Kamal has waited years for the chance to be a private shopper for a major celebrity. But finding out that her first big client is the guy she went to prom with—and slept with and was promptly ghosted by—seems like the universe is mocking her. Because Nikhil Shamdasani is back, about to star in a major movie, and is more drop-dead hot than ever . . . at the worst possible time.

Marley’s only weeks away from an elective double mastectomy and breast reconstruction that’s supposed to save her life. But this surgery is going to change things in more ways than she can possibly imagine. For one, Nik is so eager to have her as his stylist, he’s offered to stay in her home and take care of her while she recovers. Now Marley is about to learn that as the door to her old life closes, something—or rather someone—else will enter . . . if she’s ready to let him in.  

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From The Publisher:

Four students arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, an affable Californian primed for Hollywood; Tyson, a brilliant law school hopeful from DC; Summer, a Midwestern athlete and perfectionist; and Hannah, an introvert from Atlanta, Georgia. One late night, a week into freshman year, they strike up a conversation during a night in at their co-ed residence hall—and a deep, inseparable friendship is born.

For Hannah, their bond is one of the few bright spots in her otherwise uneventful life. As graduation nears, she makes a plan with Lainey and Tyson to live together in New York City. Their futures lay ahead of them, full of promise . . . until their lives are forever changed after a desperate and irreversible act leads to Summer’s death.

Stunned and heartbroken, the trio feel deeply guilty that they did not sense Summer had reached this point and that she did not call on them for help. They swear that should any one of them ever reach such a low, they must let the other two know. And if this happens, they will take the person out of their circumstances and on the road in search of healing, to whatever destination each thinks would be most transformative.

Three destinations. One last chance. They call it the Summer Pact, and they hope it will never be invoked.

Until ten years later, when it is.

In this tender exploration of grief, love and hope, Emily Giffin asks: What happens when we become submerged in the darkness, and who will be there, battling to guide us out?

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That concludes Stacking the Shelves #73! Have you read any of these books, or are they on your list of books to read? Let me know in the comments!