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Dear Dexter Lord of Destruction (aka: Muppet, Muppet Feet, Monkey, Monkey Butt, Fuzz Butt, Nugget, Tootles, Tootle Butt, Screamy McBarkington, Sir Tootles McFartington, Sir Tootles of Moonlit Stream, Pickles, Noodle, Little Man), A little over fifteen years ago, you stormed into my life. A coworker had fostered you after you were dumped at Dirty Dog Dog Wash & Groomers & quickly realized she didn’t have enough time to devote to you between both work & school. You were about 1

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2025.11.19 Watching You Breathe

Dear Dexter Lord of Destruction (aka: Muppet, Muppet Feet, Monkey, Monkey Butt, Fuzz Butt, Nugget, Tootles, Tootle Butt, Screamy McBarkington, Sir Tootles McFartington, Sir Tootles of Moonlit Stream, Pickles, Noodle, Little Man), A little over fifteen years ago, you stormed into my life. A coworker had fostered you after you were dumped at Dirty Dog Dog Wash & Groomers & quickly realized she didn’t have enough time to devote to you between both work & school. You were about 1

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2025.03.22 The Hangover

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03/10/25 The Worst Club

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2025.02.07 A Daughter's Guilt

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2024.04.13 The Grief Pool

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Solo Rockport Trip (& What I Learned)

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

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