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cstucky2
Aug 27, 20242 min read
"All the Rocks We Love" | Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider
It’s clear that rocks are solid favorites as the child on the cover of “All the Rocks we Love,” shows. She cradles several pretty ones in...
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cstucky2
Aug 22, 20242 min read
"Peggy" | Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider
Art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim makes a fascinating subject for the page turner “Peggy: A Novel.” This marvelous, intimate...
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cstucky2
Aug 19, 20242 min read
"What Have You Done" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Roy Ressler is heading toward his farmland in his big tractor early one fall morning. He is thinking with pleasure about his daughter’s...
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cstucky2
Aug 16, 20243 min read
"On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service| Reviewed by Bill Schwab
"On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service" is a memoir of a dedicated disease specialist who guided the United States through...
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cstucky2
Aug 11, 20242 min read
"The History of Sound" | Reviewed by William Winkler
New England author Ben Shattuck and his brother own and operate America’s oldest continuously operating general store, opened in 1793 in...
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cstucky2
Aug 6, 20242 min read
"Hum: A Novel" | Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider
A mother makes a supreme sacrifice that changes her life in “Hum” by Helen Phillips, a dystopian novel that grabs you by the throat and...
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cstucky2
Aug 6, 20242 min read
"Margo's Got Money Troubles" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Margo is the epitome of a young woman faced with a problem. She is not yet 20-years old but is pregnant, without financial resources,...
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cstucky2
Aug 3, 20242 min read
"Autocracy, Inc." | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
According to Anne Applebaum, a student of dictatorships, nearly three-quarters of the world's populace lives in autocracies. Noted for...
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Clover
Aug 2, 20244 min read
Cool School Picks
Clover is all over her “Cool School Picks” -- books guaranteed to make the grade as we kick off another year of reading, writing and...
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cstucky2
Jul 30, 20241 min read
"The Wedding People" | Reviewed by Jenni Olson
"The Wedding People," by Alison Espach, is a novel that has a little something for everyone. This book has a blend of dark humor, hope,...
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cstucky2
Jul 28, 20242 min read
"The Lion Women of Tehran" | Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider
It’s magical to pick up a book and become one with the story. I knew I had a goodie in my hands with “The Lion Women of Tehran,” by...
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cstucky2
Jul 24, 20242 min read
"The Next Mrs. Parrish" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“The Next Mrs. Parrish” by Liv Constantine is a sequel to“The Last Mrs. Parrish” (a 2017 Reese’s Book Club Book) in which very wealthy...
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cstucky2
Jul 23, 20242 min read
"White Poverty" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
"One of the most damnable features of our common life is the way we talk about poverty as if it's an anomaly and not a feature of our...
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Clover
Jul 22, 20244 min read
Friends the World Over
Clover’s excited to share her newest picks, books that celebrate “Friends the World Over.” Though we’re familiar with our buddies in the...
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cstucky2
Jul 18, 20242 min read
"Skies of Thunder" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Most readers are familiar with the European Theater of Operations in World War II, including the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, and...
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cstucky2
Jul 16, 20242 min read
"The Safekeep" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“The Safekeep” by Yael Van Der Wouden, is a fictional novel, a story of desires; the desire to belong, to be loved, the desire for sex,...
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cstucky2
Jul 12, 20242 min read
"Fire Exit" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Charles Lamosway, the main character in “Fire Exit,” by Morgan Talty, has never felt like he belonged anywhere. Now, nearing middle age,...
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cstucky2
Jul 11, 20242 min read
"The Wide Wide Sea" | Reviewed by Nelson Appell
“The Wide Wide Sea,” by Hampton Sides, takes us on a trip through Captain Cook’s final journey of exploration where he was killed in the...
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cstucky2
Jul 11, 20242 min read
"Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
With a pleasant blend of autobiography and self-help guidance, Jen Psaki draws on her 20 years of public service to give readers a...
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cstucky2
Jul 9, 20243 min read
"The God of the Woods," | Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider
As soon as I started “The God of the Woods,” I was mystified and held captive. Author Liz Moore was immediately in control of my psyche,...
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