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"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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Nov 19, 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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Nov 11, 20242 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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Nov 10, 20243 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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Nov 7, 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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Nov 3, 20242 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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Nov 1, 20243 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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Oct 30, 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...
cstucky2
Oct 27, 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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Oct 23, 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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Oct 21, 20242 min read
"Bone of the Bone" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Journalist Sarah Smarsh is not bashful about sharing the details of her earliest years. She was born to an unwed 17-year-old mother with...
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Oct 18, 20242 min read
“The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife” | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Just before 80-year-old Fred is evicted from his tiny apartment, he finds brief respite in a nearby park on a lake near a small town in...
cstucky2
Oct 9, 20242 min read
"The Night We Lost Him" | Reviewed by Tonya O'Connell
“The Night we Lost Him,” by Laura Dave, is the story of the Noons, a family dealing with some unique dynamics. The fact that their...
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Sep 26, 20243 min read
"The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia" | Reviewed by William Winkler
The fictional village of Santa Chionia, the setting of Juliet Grames’s novel “The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia, is nestled in the...
cstucky2
Sep 21, 20242 min read
"Ruin Their Crops on the Ground" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Food is the foundation of joy, sustenance, and freedom—and the root of oppression. In a wide-ranging exploration of American history,...
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Sep 16, 20243 min read
"Tell Me Everything" | Reviewed by Val Jankowski
I was first introduced to Strout’s imaginary community of Crosby, Maine in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Olive Kitteridge.” I have...
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Sep 14, 20242 min read
"Bright Objects" | Reviewed by William Winkler
The year is 1997. In the small Australian town of Jericho, excitement is building for the arrival of newly discovered comet St John,...
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Sep 10, 20242 min read
"Spirit Crossing" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Author William Kent Krueger revisits scenic Tamarack County in Minnesota with “Spirit Crossing,” a continuation of his Cork O’Connor...
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Sep 9, 20242 min read
"The Comfort of Ghosts" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“The Comfort of Ghosts,” by Jacqueline Winspear, is a historical fiction novel, the final book in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series. Maisie...
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Sep 6, 20241 min read
"Creation Lake" | Reviewed by William Winkler
American author Rachel Kushner’s most recent novel is set in contemporary rural southwestern France, a land of failing farms, incursive...
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Sep 5, 20242 min read
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