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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
A Slow Start Does Lead to a Satisfying Ending (4/11/2018)
America for Beginners is the first novel written by Leah Franqui. It has many fine points, but also some disappointments along the way. The book is billed as a travel story where Pival Sangupti, recently widowed, is visiting America from India to find her estranged son.more
Only Child
by Rhiannon Navin
Good But... (1/24/2018)
A terrible thing has happened. A sick man has gotten into McKinley School. He killed a bunch of people with his gun. One of these is Andy Taylor. His younger brother, Zach, also in the school at the time of the shooting, has survived.
The entire story is told from the pointmore
Saints for All Occasions: A novel
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Saints or Sinners? (9/27/2017)
"How could you be this close, be a family, and yet be so unknown to one another?"

This quote sums up the reason for this book... the whole theme of this book: We can be a family, yet not know each other. Undoubtedly, this is because we do not let ourselves BE known.

This ismore
The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
Three Lives Come Together (6/11/2017)
This is the story of three people who have all lost a loved one. But the three improbably come together to support each other and learn how to live again. One is Arthur, age 82, the second is Maddy, age 18, and the third is Arthur's nosy neighbor, Lucille, a spinster ofmore
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