THE TENDER BAR
Amazon Prime
Rated R
January 7
From director George Clooney and based on
the best-selling memoir, “The Tender Bar”
follows an aspiring writer (Tye Sheridan)
pursuing his romantic and professional
dreams. From a stool in his uncle’s (Ben
Aeck) bar, he learns what it means to grow
up from a colorful group of local characters.
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REMINDERS OF HIM
By Colleen Hoover
January 18
After serving five years in prison for a tragic
mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town
where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite
with her four-year-old daughter. But the
bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible
to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life
is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter
how hard she works to prove herself. The
only person who hasn’t closed the door on
her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar
owner and one of the few remaining links
to Kenna’s daughter. But if anyone were to
discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an
important part of Kenna’s life, both would
risk losing the trust of everyone important
to them. The two form a connection despite
the pressure surrounding them, but as their
romance grows, so does the risk. Kenna must
find a way to absolve the mistakes of her
past in order to build a future out of hope and
healing.
VIOLETA
By Isabel Allende
January 25
This sweeping novel from theNew York
Timesbestselling author of“A Long Petal
of the Sea”tells the epic story of Violeta
del Valle, a woman whose life spans one
hundred years and bears witness to the
greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy
day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five
boisterous sons. From the start, her life will
be marked by extraordinary events, for the
ripples of the Great War are still being felt,
even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores
of her South American homeland almost at
the moment of her birth. Through her father’s
prescience, the family will come through that
crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as
the Great Depression transforms the genteel
city life she has known. Her family loses all
and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful
but remote part of the country. There, she will
come of age, and her first suitor will come
calling.
RECKLESS GIRLS
By Rachel Hawkins
January 4
When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico,
are hired to sail two women to a remote
island in the South Pacific, it seems like the
opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end
job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world
after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb
on boardThe Susannahand set out on an
adventure. She’s also quick to bond with their
passengers, college best friends Brittany and
Amma. Meroe Island is every bit the paradise
the foursome expects, despite a mysterious
history of shipwrecks, cannibalism and even
rumors of murder. But what they don’t expect
is to discover another boat already anchored
o Meroe’s sandy beaches. The owners of
theAzure Sky,Jake and Eliza, are a true
golden couple: gorgeous, laidback, and if
their sleek catamaran and well-stocked bar
are any indication, rich. Now a party of six,
the new friends settle in to experience life
on an exotic island, and the serenity of being
completely o the grid. But with the arrival
of a skeevy stranger sailing alone in pursuit
of a darker kind of good time, the balance
of the group is disrupted. When it becomes
clear that the group is even more cut o from
civilization than they initially thought, it starts
to feel like the island itself is closing in on
them. And when one person goes missing,
and another turns up dead, Lux begins to
wonder if any of them are going to make it o
the island alive.
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