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5 days ago2 min read
"The Stolen Queen" | Reviewed by Pat Saniz
Fiona Davis, author of “The Stolen Queen,” has placed her main characters in a New York City landmark, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In...
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cstucky2
Jan 64 min read
"The Serviceberry" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book, “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” expands upon her...
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cstucky2
Jan 52 min read
"Blue Sisters" | Reviewed by Tonya O'Connell
“Blue Sisters: A Novel,” by Coco Mellors, is the story of three women in the Blue family. The sisters are very different from one...
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cstucky2
Dec 30, 20243 min read
"Kingmaker" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Paramour + politician = power is a succinct summary of “Kingmaker.” This biography of a British-born socialite reads like a political...
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cstucky2
Dec 20, 20243 min read
"Carson the Magnificent" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
From Ed McMahon's nightly introduction, "Heeeeeere's Johnny!" to the imaginary golf swing at the end of each opening monologue, Johnny...
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cstucky2
Dec 15, 20242 min read
"The Memory Dress" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“The Memory Dress,” by Jade Beer, is a historical fiction novel about a dressmaker who created designs for Diana, Princess of Wales, from...
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cstucky2
Dec 6, 20242 min read
"The Witches of El Paso" | Reviewed by Tonya O'Connell
“The Witches of El Paso,” by Luis Jaramillo, is the story of Nena and her grandniece Marta. From the beginning of the book, readers...
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cstucky2
Dec 3, 20243 min read
"The Mighty Red" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
The Big Ag country of North Dakota is the setting of Louise Erdrich's 14th novel, "The Mighty Red." Once the home of the Ojibwe, the...
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cstucky2
Dec 2, 20242 min read
"Don't Be A Stranger" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Ivy Cooper is 52 years old, newly divorced and raising her young son alone in a New York City apartment. She is surviving financially...
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cstucky2
Nov 28, 20242 min read
"Playground" | Reviewed by William Winkler
American writer Richard Powers has published 14 novels, including 2019’s “Overstory,” which won that year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction....
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cstucky2
Nov 19, 20242 min read
"The Boys of Riverside" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Thomas Fuller is the San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times. His assignment is to write about California wildfires,...
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cstucky2
Nov 11, 20242 min read
"A Reason to See You Again" | Reviewed by Tonya O'Connell
“A Reason to See You Again,” by Jamie Attenberg, is the story of the women in the Cohen family. The daughters and mother are in crisis,...
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cstucky2
Nov 10, 20243 min read
"Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Conviction" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Best-selling author John Grisham, and John McCloskey, a pioneer in the Innocence Movement, relate 10 painful to-read stories of wrongly...
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cstucky2
Nov 7, 20242 min read
"The Barn" | Reviewed by William Winkler
In August 1995 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from suburban Chicago, was visiting a cousin in the Delta region of northwestern...
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cstucky2
Nov 3, 20242 min read
"The Blue Hour" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“The Blue Hour,” by Paula Hawkins, is a testament to the author’s gift for creating mystique and psychological suspense through...
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cstucky2
Nov 1, 20243 min read
"The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized- crime Boss” | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
High-profile capitalists associated with the Gilded Age (1870-1900) were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Cornelius...
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cstucky2
Oct 30, 20242 min read
"The Madness" | Reviewed by Jennifer Johnson
No one at the government psychiatric hospital would guess that the rigid, professional Dr. Mina Murray grew up a witch’s daughter in a...
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cstucky2
Oct 27, 20242 min read
"Dogs and Monsters" | Reviewed by William Winkler
British author Mark Haddon’s most recent book, “Dogs and Monsters.” is a collection of eight short stories, several of which are...
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cstucky2
Oct 23, 20242 min read
"The Burning Earth: A History: Reviewed by Bill Schwab
The major story of our time is not the launch of artificial intelligence nor the contention in US politics, it is the continuing...
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cstucky2
Oct 21, 20242 min read
"Counting Miracles" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
As usual Nicholas Sparks does not disappoint. “Counting Miracles” is a love story full of blessings and tragedies, about finding a place...
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