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The Last Romantics
by Tara Conklin

The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin (12/10/2018)

This book begins with an underground seismic event: the death of small town dentist Mr. Skinner, and the reverberations stretch onto every page all the way through this gorgeously written novel. Ostensibly this story is about the Skinner family: Antonia (mother, called Noni) …more

A Ladder to the Sky: A Novel
by John Boyne

A Mixture of Yes and No (9/22/2018)

This is a book to love or to hate. The main character Maurice Swift is at his best an arrogant and gorgeous looking man, manipulative, narcissistic, deadly, perhaps a sociopath — someone we love to hate. Maurice wants to be a writer, a famous writer; unfortunately for him, …more

Red, White, Blue
by Lea Carpenter

What Do You Know? (7/17/2018)

Picture yourself, it's mid week, and now, after dinner you decide it's time to start the book all your friends have been raving about. Unless you're willing to not get any sleep this mid week night it might be better to wait for a rainy afternoon in which at the worst you' …more

Meet Me at the Museum
by Anne Youngson

Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson (4/17/2018)

In 1950, an archeological find by a childhood friend's father finds a fully preserved man, approximately from 375 to 210 B.C, in a Danish peat bog and is given the name The Tollund Man. Now only his head remains.

Tina Hopgood and her childhood girlfriends were enthralled by …more

Celine
by Peter Heller

Celine (2/16/2018)

Ostensibly it is a search for a missing person who has been pronounced dead, more, it is about family. The characters, Celine, her family, and the client trying to find her father, amazingly interesting, particularly Celine. We could call that the plot. The way it's written, …more

Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig

Ginny Moon (1/10/2018)

Ginny Moon, fourteen years old with autism, is trying to make sense of her world and with her as the narrator we are on a wild adventure following in her footsteps, watching how her mind works in navigating the zigzag path of her life. From the very first moment of this …more

Force of Nature: Aaron Falk Mystery #2
by Jane Harper

Force of Nature (10/29/2017)

How do you feel about hiking in the unfamiliar Australian outback, following a topographical map on a team-building exercise with fellow workmates you don't even like? Such is the beginning of this page-turning novel where one of the participants doesn't return with the …more

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