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My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman’s My Friends is a warm, bittersweet novel about the ties that bind us and the quiet ways people save one another. Set in a small Swedish community, it follows a close-knit group whose lives have intertwined over years of shared history, small kindnesses, and unspoken hurts. When circumstances begin to shift, each character is forced to confront what friendship truly means, and what they owe to themselves as well as to each other.

Backman writes with his usual…

Till Summer Do Us Part By Meghan Quinn

This sunshine-soaked romantic comedy drops us into a fake relationship that, of course, gets far too real. When our heroine needs a respectable plus-one for a summer wedding season, she strikes a mutually beneficial deal with a charming, slightly chaotic man who is happy to play the part. What begins as a convenient arrangement quickly develops into something warmer as long days, seaside settings, and a tight-knit cast of friends blur the lines between pretend and genuine.

Quinn leans into all…
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