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A Council of Dolls: A Novel
by Mona Susan Power
An Argument for Kindness (8/5/2023)
Mona Susan Power is a strong voice for her Native American People. Although a work of fiction, A Council of Dolls reads in part like an intensely written personal memoir describing the uprooting of Dakota children taken from their homes and sent to missionary schools for "more
The God of Endings: A Novel
by Jacqueline Holland
The Pros and Cons of Imortality (11/17/2022)
A young child in 1830's New York has been orphaned in a diphtheria epidemic that has devastated her village. Fate has placed her future in the hands of a distant grandfather. She does not know him. Neither do any of the other villagers. With great authority the grandfathermore
Peach Blossom Spring: A Novel
by Melissa Fu
Peach Blossom Spring (3/6/2022)
The Introduction to Peach Blossom Spring speaks to us about the origin of storytelling in a culture which places great value on the telling of stories. Melissa Fu has, in very beautiful prose, reminded her readers about how stories spring to life and how they then take on amore
Ariadne
by Jennifer Saint
Ariadne: A Heroine's Perspective (4/12/2021)
Lately it seems many stories have been written offering retellings of the classics of Greek mythology. Ariadne is Jennifer Saint's contribution to this genre. Her story is filled with drama and suspense leading the reader into forbidding places. Her powerful writing kept memore
At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
Searching for a Life (10/25/2020)
Maddy Donato is 20 years old and choosing to live on the streets of San Francisco. Maddy has had little or no contact with any one in her family for many years. She graduated from high school, ran off to San Francisco and found her new "family" there on the streets.
Anmore
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
by Sara Seager
Head in the stars...Feet on the ground (7/29/2020)
Everything brave has to start somewhere…
Sara Seager

Sara Seager was a wife, a mother of two young sons, and a world-renowned astrophysicist. Suddenly, at the age of forty, she found herself a widow, a single parent and a world-renowned astrophysicist. This book is her storymore
The Paris Hours: A Novel
by Alex George
Remembrance of Things Past--Part II (3/14/2020)
The Paris Hours is a beautifully written, soulful account of four Parisians, each coping with a very personal loss. The year is 1927. The entire book takes place over the span of a single day. As the stories unfold it becomes evident that even after many years, each ofmore
The Seine: The River that Made Paris
by Elaine Sciolino
Cruising the Heart of France (10/30/2019)
In 1978 Elaine Sciolino, a young American news reporter, left her life in the States and moved to Paris to work for Newsweek. There she began a new life—and a new love affair—with Paris and with the Seine.
This book is Sciolino's tribute to a great river whose source is amore
Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
When Past Actions Come Back to Haunt (5/7/2019)
I have long been a fan of Joshilyn Jackson's books. Her heartwarming stories are steeped in southern ambience. Her characters are complex and quirky. However, in Never Have I Ever, Joshilyn Jackson takes a giant step away from her usual...and dives into the world ofmore
The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
An Unnoticed Victim of War (12/17/2018)
Susan Meissner has written a heartfelt story about a German American teenager, whose search for her own identity and values took her through a German/Japanese internment camp In Texas during World War II; deportation to Germany during the last year of the War; a return backmore
Red, White, Blue
by Lea Carpenter
Worlds of Deception (7/30/2018)
Red, White, Blue is a book centered in deception—the deceptions of the CIA, the deceptions of its agents; the half-truths that are shared in Anna's family and the half-truths used by the author to describe the evolution of the truth that underlies the story. In the middlemore
The Days When Birds Come Back
by Deborah Reed
What Does it Mean to Go Home Again? (11/27/2017)
June, a writer has returned to her home on the Washington coast to recover from her broken marriage and her addiction to alcohol. She plans to concentrate on getting her writing career back on track while overseeing the renovation of her grandparents' deserted bungalow.more
The Almost Sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
The Almost Sisters (5/22/2017)
Once again Joshilyn Jackson has successfully created a world filled with the fascinatingly quirky characters of a small Southern town. There's Leia, a comics creator, who hooks up with Batman at a comics convention. The other members of her family: her grandmother Missmore
My Last Lament
by James William Brown
A Modern Day Greek Tragedy (3/30/2017)
Aliki is a lamenter. When someone known to her dies, she attends the funeral, stands in a pair of shoes of the deceased person and sings of that person's life as a final farewell. Lamenters are a dying breed in Greek culture, and so Aliki is approached by a Greek Americanmore
A Piece of the World: A Novel
by Christina Baker Kline
Christina Olson and her World (12/30/2016)
I've spent many years of my life living in Pennsylvania very close to Andrew Wyeth country and am familiar with his paintings, Christina's World being one of them. I never took the time to really contemplate the figure of the slight woman lying in the foreground, butmore
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
by Kathleen Rooney
Lillian (9/29/2016)
Lillian Boxwood,84 years old, dons her mink coat and walks from her home in Grammercy Park to lower Manhattan and back again on New Year's Eve in 1984. Her walk becomes a reminiscence of her life in the City--a seemingly simple premise that evolves into the life story of amore
North of Crazy: A Memoir
by Neltje
Neltje Doubleday: A Life Reconstructed (6/22/2016)
I had never heard of Neltje until I opened this book. And then, there she was--the daughter of a prominent publisher, a child desperately wanting to be loved, a wife and mother trying to live according to the rules of a society she never felt part of, and, finally, a womanmore
The Secret Language of Stones: A Daughters of La Lune Novel
by M. J. Rose
Love Beyond the Grave (4/27/2016)
Once again M. J. Rose takes her readers to Paris--this time towards the end of the First World War. Once again she takes us deeper into the world of the occult by introducing us to lithomancy, the art of reading the past, present or future through gemstones. Opalinemore
The Dark Lady's Mask
by Mary Sharratt
The Dark Lady's Revenge (3/9/2016)
A beautiful, talented musician and aspiring writer, Aemilia Bassano Lanier, defies Elizabethan conventions. She dresses as a man, rides horseback and travels the countryside. In a totally chance meeting she is intrigued by a young Will Shakespeare and when London ismore
The Two-Family House
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Longman (11/28/2015)
This is the story of Helen and Rose and their husbands Abe and Mort and their families. From the day that Helen and Rose became sisters-in-law they were extremely close, totally supportive of each other. Then one snowy night the two women made a crucial decision that wouldmore
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