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The Fortunate Ones
The Fortunate Ones
by Ed Tarkington
Captivating Retelling of Old Tale (11/11/2020)
Until I read "The Fortunate Ones" I doubted that any more could be written about a working class boy coming in contact with one "to the manor born." Nor did I think I could be swayed by the irony of the title. I was wrong. From the start of the novel through to its finish I …more
American Dirt
American Dirt: A Novel
by Jeanine Cummins
Stunning Realism (12/15/2019)
It's been easy for me to see the refugees at the southern border of the United States as one sea of humanity. Cummins skillfully takes the reader into the heart and life of one Mexican woman fleeing gang violence in Acapulco, trying to get her son to distant family in …more
Yale Needs Women
Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
by Anne Gardiner Perkins
Yale Needed Women(to stay competitive) (7/13/2019)
An engaging well documented history of Yale finally beginning to accept women in the fall of 1969, not for benevolent motives, but because it was losing applicants to coed colleges. The lack of preparation for women, including for their safety and reluctance to change the …more
Greek to Me
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
Greek Love Affair (3/8/2019)
Retired New Yorker copy editor Mary Morris shares her lifelong love of Greece with a combined memoir, history, travel guide to all things Greek. Along the way the reader learns much from her witty style. Best suited to someone already familiar with a little Greek culture, …more
The Lost Man
The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
Another winner from Australian Jane Harper (10/28/2018)
Jane Harper's third novel, a stand alone, again takes place in the vast outback of Australia. Once again she focuses on a death with few possible suspects. Amazingly, she manages to turn the plot many ways without ever revealing the culprit until the very end. I read this …more
Clock Dance
Clock Dance: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Another Tyler Gem (7/9/2018)
Anne Tyler again focuses her keen eye on the kind of woman, Willa, who rarely takes the center of a novel. Willa, ironically named since she has had no will of her own for most of her life, leaves Arizona for Baltimore. There she will find a collection of quirky, …more
Other People's Houses
Other People's Houses
by Abbi Waxman
Other Less Than Perfect Lives (12/2/2017)
For every reader who has ever had more epic Pinterest fails than successes, Abbi Waxman delivers the delightful novel "Other People's Houses." Centered on Fran, mother of three, the book slyly and humorously shows us the underside of the other three families on the street. …more
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