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Three Days in June
Three Days in June: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Love and Forgiveness (12/5/2024)
Can one small novel reveal complex relationships, show love's powerful hold on suspicion, expose career choices, in a three day whirlwind of a wedding and its aftermath? Anne Tyler's THREE DAYS IN JUNE can. She sets the scene, develops characters, moves the plot with …more
Stealing
Stealing: A Novel
by Margaret Verble
Stealing on Many Levels (1/5/2023)
Kit Crockett, a Cherokee teenager, in the hands and pen of Margaret Verble, leaves a personal journal written while in an orphanage. Kit tells us how she got there and what she endured. Kit reveals the many levels of stealing a heart, a soul, a culture, a family and steals …more
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
by Zhuqing Li
Separated By War (5/17/2022)
Can two sisters close in childhood but separated by civil war sustain a warm bond and be reunited after decades living miles apart? Zhuqing Li's novelesque writing style and thoroughly researched history provides the answer. Li portrays the careers of two powerful …more
Free
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Philosophy of Freedom (11/9/2021)
Can you hug Stalin without embracing Communism? Lea Ypi answers this question and more in this novelesque memoir of her growing up in tiny Albania. Using personal anecdotes to recount family history as Albania moves from single-party socialism to a plural party government, …more
The Three Mothers
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Celebrating Mothers (11/10/2020)
Author Tubbs has given us a readable, thoroughly researched account of the contributions three mothers made in the lives of three very famous Black civil rights leaders. In each case, although very different, the mothers were instrumental in the formative years of their …more
A Girl is A Body of Water
A Girl is A Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Kirabo Rocks (7/16/2020)
Kirabo stars in this Ugandan family saga. I like Kirabo as she seeks to understand clan customs, traditional relationships and ultimately to find her absent mother. Makumbi weaves a thoughtful tale with the threads of clan relationships and rivalries, with strong elements …more
You Were There Too
You Were There Too
by Colleen Oakley
A Human Tapestry (8/12/2019)
In You Were There Too, Colleen Oakley skillfully weaves intense matters of sincere love, complicated human relationships, and emotional crises into a beautiful tapestry. Through mastery of dialogue the characters become real. Applying thoughtful imagination the unusual …more
D-Day Girls
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose
D-Day Girls Are Great (3/16/2019)
With rich, lovely sentences and perceptive insight into the ugliness of war, Sarah Rose has given us history that reads like a novel and a novel that teaches us about the over-looked role of strong women on the clandestine side of World War II. Author Rose skillfully …more
Clock Dance
Clock Dance: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Life is Good (7/16/2018)
If I was limited to only three authors to read for the rest of my time on earth, Anne Tyler would be one of them. She is a masterful story teller. In Clock Dance she tells us about Willa Drake at various life points. Along the way we meet a colorful variety of unforgettable …more
The Story of Arthur Truluv
The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
The Story of Arthur Truluv (6/21/2017)
Arthur Truluv is my introduction to Elizabeth Berg's writing. Her straight forward, unencumbered prose drew me quickly into the disparate lives of Arthur, Maddy and Lucille. By the end of the story, I felt rather well acquainted with the featured trio of characters. The …more
No One Is Coming to Save Us
No One Is Coming to Save Us
by Stephanie Powell Watts
No One Is Coming to Save Us (4/4/2017)
Stephanie Powell Watts has written a warm and sensitive story about a segment of life in small town North Carolina. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. She delves into the hearts and minds of an extended family to expose their inner tensions, their success and/ …more
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