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"To Free the Captives" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
The Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith has written a lyrical memoir that explores the lives of her ancestors in...
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Feb 63 min read
"Come & Get It" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“Come and Get It,” by Kiley Reid, is a contemporary fiction story set mainly in a dormitory at the University of Arkansas in...
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Jan 301 min read
"First Lie Wins" | Reviewed by Jenni Olson
"First Lie Wins," by Ashley Elston, is a fast-paced thriller that will leave readers questioning everything and everyone. The book's...
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Jan 252 min read
"The Curse of Pietro Houdini" Reviewed by William Winkler
The Benedictine abbey at Montecassino, Italy, established in the 6th Century C.E., has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times over the...
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Jan 232 min read
"Diva" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“Diva,” by Daisy Goodwin, is a highly entertaining novel about Maria Callas, one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th...
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Jan 72 min read
"Mercury"| Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“Mercury,” by Amy Jo Burns, is a novel about family—family in every aspect of the word: its dramas, secrets, loyalties and relationships....
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Jan 43 min read
"Blood Memory" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
“Blood Memory” is the story of how the interrelationship between 600 generations of Indigenous peoples and an estimated 15 million...
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Jan 32 min read
"The Plague of Souls" | Reviewed by Bill Winkler
Irish author and educator Mike McCormack’s novel, “This Plague of Souls,” is a darkly intriguing narrative set in modern-day Ireland....
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Jan 21 min read
"The Good Part" | Reviewed by Jenni Olson
"The Good Part," by Sophie Cousens, is a romantic story about learning to enjoy the little things in life. It has similarities to beloved...
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Dec 27, 20233 min read
"When We Walk By" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
As cities across the United States seek to address chronic homelessness, Kevin Adler and Donald Burnes offer a humanizing analysis of the...
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Dec 21, 20231 min read
"Kill Show" | Reviewed by Jenni Olson
"Kill Show" by Daniel Sweren-Becker, is a work of fiction that is meant to read like a true-crime documentary. This story is gripping and...
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Dec 15, 20232 min read
"The Christmas Guest" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“The Christmas Guest” is a novella by mystery writer Peter Swanson. It’s protagonist, Ashley Smith, is newly orphaned and studying art...
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Dec 12, 20233 min read
"Elon Musk," | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Walter Isaacson has captured the life story of egotistical, explosive Elon Musk with a detailed, intimate report on one of the most...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read
"Again and Again" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Eugene Miles, the narrator and protagonist of Jonathan Evison’s most recent novel, ”Again and Again,” is a reclusive, curmudgeonly...
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Dec 4, 20231 min read
"My Darling Girl" | Reviewed by Jenni Olson
"My Darling Girl," by Jennifer McMahon, is a psychological thriller that will leave you in suspense until the very last line. Readers...
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Dec 1, 20232 min read
"The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” takes place before and during the 1930’s Depression in Chicken Hill, a ramshackle neighborhood. The...
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Nov 30, 20232 min read
"Hitchcock's Blondes" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
In “Hitchcock’s Blondes,” author Laurence Leamer writes about movie director Alfred Hitchock’s obsession with the blondes who starred in...
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Nov 15, 20232 min read
"The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Last Days of the Dalton Gang" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Tom Clavin captures the colorful stories and jarring facts of the American era known as the “Wild West “in a comprehensive history of the...
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Nov 14, 20232 min read
"America, Fantastica" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Minnesota native Tim O’Brien earned a BA in Political Science in 1968 and soon thereafter was drafted into the US Army and sent to Viet...
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Nov 13, 20232 min read
"The Leftover Woman" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
In “The Leftover Woman,” by Jean Kwok, the author channels the biblical story of Solomon and the baby that Solomon threatens to...
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