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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 112 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 103 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 72 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 32 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 13 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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Oct 302 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 272 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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Oct 232 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 212 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 182 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 92 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...
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Sep 263 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 212 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...
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Sep 163 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 142 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 102 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 92 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 61 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 52 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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