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Scatterlings
Scatterlings: A Novel
by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
The Outsider (10/27/2022)
Alisa always felt as though she did not fit in. A black woman from the Caribbean, adopted by white English parents, Alisa thought that South Africa would be her haven. However, after her marriage to a white man to whom she bore two children, the South African Immorality Act …more
Activities of Daily Living
Activities of Daily Living: A Novel
by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Spending One's Time (1/15/2022)
Ms. Chen has written of the strange, weird ways the nonfictional artist, Tehching Hsieh, employs 'time' in his various performance art pieces. Paralleling this part of the novel is the fictional story of Alice who spends much of her time visiting and caring for her dying …more
All the Water I've Seen Is Running
All the Water I've Seen Is Running: A Novel
by Elias Rodriques
Returning home (6/22/2021)
In the ten years since Daniel left the poverty and racism of his north Florida home, he has completed his college degree and is employed as a high school English teacher in NYC. He has not maintained any connection with his former high school friends. However, he is drawn …more
The Northern Reach
The Northern Reach
by W.S. Winslow
A Town and Family in Maine (11/21/2020)
What a joy it is to look in on this Maine town, near the Northern Reach, and be introduced to one of its extended families. One can easily relate to the ups and downs, the happy times and the sad times, that each family member experiences. Winslow expertly creates a …more
Catherine House
Catherine House: A Novel
by Elisabeth Thomas
Catherine House (3/9/2020)
Hidden in the backwoods of Pennsylvania, Catherine House is home to a small selective college with strange rules and a mysterious aura. Students are chosen not just for their intelligence but also because they don't fit well in their environments. Everything is provided for …more
Actress
Actress
by Anne Enright
Actress (11/11/2019)
To me, 'Actress' seemed like a love letter from a daughter to her mother, the actress Katherine O'Dell. Anne Enright so poignantly portrays the life of a successful, then struggling, actress. In the time period, one is reminded of the 'troubles' in Ireland, amid the …more
Creatures
Creatures
by Crissy Van Meter
Creatures (10/8/2019)
On Winter Island, off the coast of southern California, Evie carries on a love-hate relationship with her hard-drinking but caring father. "Raised like a boy,...with mostly no mother", Evie helps sell Winter Wonderland, the potent pot raised on the island by her father, to …more
Nothing to See Here
Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
Strange Affliction (6/16/2019)
Bessie and Roland are ten-year-old twins with a rare affliction: they spontaneously combust when agitated. Their mother has died, they're living with grandparents who don't seem to love them, and their politically ambitious father, Jasper, wants them close to the family but …more
Ellie and the Harpmaker
Ellie and the Harpmaker
by Hazel Prior
Ellie and the Harpmaker (4/4/2019)
What a charming novel! The beautiful, lyrical descriptions of the Exmoor landscapes..."...distant hills that melt into the sky, jags of coastline that climb, fall and reach out to the sea..."...form the backdrop of the friendship and love that unite the lonely, poetic Ellie …more
The Affairs of the Falcóns
The Affairs of the Falcóns
by Melissa Rivero
Is life always better in a new land? (11/29/2018)
Ana and Lucho, together with their children, have left their home country of Peru and are desperately trying to make a better life for themselves in New York City. As illegal immigrants, they are forced to take menial jobs with meager pay. The daily hardships they face... …more
Golden Child
Golden Child
by Claire Adam
Choices (10/21/2018)
The Deyalsingh family from Trinidad is blessed with the birth of male twins...one considered a genius and the other seemingly a bit 'slow'. As years progress, the hard-working patriarch of the family is faced with a choice that will change his loving family forever and will …more
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel
Must-read for Cat Lovers (5/8/2018)
This delightful story made me laugh at times and then made me shed a few tears. Nana, the wise independent street cat, becomes attached to gentle Satoru who cares for him after he is injured by a car. Satoru tries to find a new home for Nana with various friends but Nana …more
French Exit
French Exit
by Patrick deWitt
French Exit (1/27/2018)
Patrick DeWitt has invented three wonderfully eccentric characters in Frances Price, her son Malcolm, and their cat, Small Frank. Frances is a widow who has spent her way into bankruptcy. Malcolm, who lives with her, cannot make up his mind about anything, including whether …more
Eternal Life
Eternal Life
by Dara Horn
Eternal life (11/22/2017)
The idea of having an eternal earthly existence is a captivating premise. However the character of Rachel, the heroine of "Eternal Life", seems underdeveloped. Her various transformations through the ages are unsatisfying and somewhat shallow. This extends to the …more
The Story of Arthur Truluv
The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
The Story of Arthur Truluv (6/6/2017)
Nola, the wife of Arthur Moses, died seven months ago but Arthur still has lunch with her...at her grave site...every day. He talks to her and imagines the lives of others buried near her. Maddy Harris, a troubled teen, also spends her lunch hour at the cemetery. As time …more
The Stars Are Fire
The Stars Are Fire
by Anita Shreve
A romance Novel? (3/23/2017)
With "The Stars Are Fire", I felt like I was reading the kind of novel referred to as a 'romance'. For example, after experiencing the apparent loss of her husband in a tragic fire, the main character effortlessly falls in love with a stranger who is camping in her home and, …more
Shelter
Shelter
by Jung Yun
Shelter (1/7/2016)
Kyung Cho is a Korean-American college professor with a young family and a lot of debt who has always tried to 'fit in'. He grew up with cold and abusive parents, Jin and Mae, who live in luxury near Kyung and have had little to do with the Cho family through the years. …more
Maud's Line
Maud's Line
by Margaret Verble
Maud's Line (7/1/2015)
The amazing, hard-working, passionate heroine of this novel, Maud Nail, is truly an inspiration for modern eighteen-year-old girls. In addition to farming the land and caring for the animals on her small Indian allotment in 1920's Oklahoma, Maud spends her 'leisure time' …more
The Book of Speculation
The Book of Speculation
by Erika Swyler
The Book of Speculation (4/7/2015)
Erika Swyler has penned a mystery filled with love, superstition, a family curse, genealogy, and tales of a traveling carnival. The story begins to unravel when Simon, a reference librarian, receives an eighteenth century journal that was kept by a carnival director. The …more
Her Name Is Rose
Her Name Is Rose
by Christine Breen
Her Name Is Rose (2/4/2015)
This is a novel of love and searching: a widowed mother searching for her adopted daughter's birth parents; a talented daughter searching for musical satisfaction; a widowed music professor searching for the woman who inspires him; a man searching for the daughter he never …more
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