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"Mother-Daughter Murder Night" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“Mother-Daughter Murder Night,” by Nina Simon, is a 3-generational murder mystery that’s more of a family drama than a cozy mystery. Lana...
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- Sep 19
- 2 min
"Starter Villain" | Reviewed by Nelson Appell
What would you do if your Uncle Jake died and left his business to you? What if, at the funeral, the mourners seemed more interested in...
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- Sep 17
- 2 min
"While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
This compulsively readable memoir by award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger reflects a worldwide truth: it is most likely that not one...
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- Sep 6
- 2 min
"The River We Remember" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
William Kent Krueger has written another moving novel in which the setting is a character all its own. “The River We Remember” takes...
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- Sep 5
- 2 min
"Dee Dann: Folk Artist" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
The New Haven Preservation Society has just released a compendium of artwork created by highly regarded folk artist Dorris L. “Dee” Dann....
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- Sep 4
- 2 min
"Prom Mom" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“Prom Mom,” by Laura Lippman, is a suspenseful read based on a true story. The thriller is intense, addictive and sinister, a...
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- Aug 28
- 2 min
"All the Sinners Bleed" | Reviewed by Miles Eschmann
Set in the turbulent year of 2017, “All the Sinners Bleed” is an enthusiastically bloody crime thriller with subtext rooted in the deeply...
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- Aug 23
- 2 min
"The Wingmen" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Shortly after the U.S. entered the Korean War in 1953, two men flew over the 38th Parallel into Communist territory aboard identical...
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- Aug 17
- 2 min
"Shark Heart" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
One striking feature of “Shark Heart,” by Emily Habeck, is the beautiful cover art of a graceful shark painted in flowers, gliding...
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- Aug 15
- 2 min
"Cutting Teeth" | Reviewed by Jenny Johnson
Little Academy Preschool is idyllic. The bright colors, sweet little handprints and chorus of delighted voices in the halls are enough to...
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- Aug 14
- 2 min
"The Fourth Turning Is Here" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
In 1997, social and historical theorists, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss published “The Fourth Turning,” a hypothesis that...
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- Aug 10
- 2 min
"Family Lore" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“Family Lore,” by Elizabeth Acevedo, is a multi-generational story of four sisters born with magical gifts that are revealed as they grow...
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- Aug 8
- 3 min
"The Half Known Life" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
After traveling the globe for 12 years as the Dalai lama's biographer and observing how people worldwide search for meaning in their...
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- Aug 3
- 2 min
"I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home| Reviewed by William Winkler
Lorrie Moore is a professor of English at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. She writes essays, short stories, and has published four...
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- Aug 1
- 2 min
"The Housekeepers" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“The Housekeepers,” by Alex Hay, is a fun debut novel in which “Ocean’s Eleven” meets “Downton Abbey.” Set in London in the 1900s, the...
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- Jul 27
- 2 min
"Alchemy of a Blackbird" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“Alchemy of a Blackbird,” by Claire McMillan, is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of Surrealist Painters Remedios Varo...
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- Jul 24
- 2 min
"Crook Manifesto" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Colson Whitehead “hits it out of the park,” that is out of New York City’s Shea Stadium, in his latest book set in 1970s Harlem. Crime...
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- Jul 21
- 2 min
"Somebody's Fool"|Reviewed by William Winkler
Richard Russo is a prolific wordsmith with 10 novels to his credit, as well as short story collections, screenplays, and a memoir....
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- Jul 19
- 2 min
"Little Monsters" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Family secrets form the basis of “Little Monsters,” an engrossing contemporary psychological novel about Adam Gardner, a renowned...
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- Jul 18
- 2 min
"Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups"| Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Notorious cult leaders Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Marshall Applewhite are three of the well-known figures profiled in “Cults” by...
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