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Exiles
Exiles: Aaron Falk Mystery #3
by Jane Harper
Aaron Falk series book 3 (8/30/2022)
Kim Gillespie leaves her newborn baby alone at a busy festival and disappears. A year later Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is visiting friends in the Southern Australia wine country and becomes enmeshed in Kim's mysterious disappearance.

I really enjoy Jane Harpers ability …more
The Paris Bookseller
The Paris Bookseller
by Kerri Maher
The Paris Bookseller (11/6/2021)
Sylvia Beach is The Paris Bookseller, who became critical to the literary life of Paris in the years between the wars.

The establishment of her bookstore Shakespeare & Company, the publishing of the banned book "Ulysses", Sylvia's relationships with James Joyce and her …more
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
The Personal Librarian (1/26/2021)
This is the little known story of Bella da Costa Green and her life as personal librarian to J.P. Morgan. The story provides a fascinating look at the process of building and collecting a library of rare books, manuscripts and art. But, it is also the story of a beautiful, …more
The Widow Queen
The Widow Queen: The Bold #1
by Elzbieta Cherezinska
Sigrid Storrada a forgotten Queen (11/12/2020)
The Widow Queen authored by Elzbieta Cherezinska is the fascinating and forgotten story of a tenth century queen who ruled two kingdoms, and is remembered in the Norse sagas but was totally unknown to me.

I love historical sagas and this had all the requirements for great …more
At the Edge of the Haight
At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
Life on the edge. (10/10/2020)
Katherine Seligman's book "At the edge of the Haight" is a thoroughly engrossing and thought provoking story about Maddie, her dog Root (one of my favorite characters) and the friends who have become her family while living on the streets in San Francisco.

The book is both a …more
Daughter of the Reich
Daughter of the Reich: A Novel
by Louise Fein
Daughter of the Reich (3/18/2020)
Daughter of the Reich is the well-written, well-researched story of Hetty, the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi and Walter her Jewish friend from childhood who saves her from drowning. As teenagers they become lovers and their resulting dilemma sets the stage for the novel. …more
American Dirt
American Dirt: A Novel
by Jeanine Cummins
An Extraordinary Book (11/12/2019)
On television almost every day I see stories about the immigrant problem. What I don't see are stories about the journeys these people have gone through to come north to escape the brutality and horror they experienced in their home countries. This book clearly details the …more
The Guest Book
The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
The Guest Book (4/1/2019)
The Guest Book is the story of three generations of Milton women, the island they own, and the summer house that comes to define who they are.

The novel tells the story of Racism, Manners, and Power systemically embedded in the United States from the mid-1930's through the …more
When We Left Cuba
When We Left Cuba
by Chanel Cleeton
When we left Cuba (12/21/2018)
Beatriz Perez is the beautiful, dangerous and very Independent heroine of the novel "When we left Cuba." Thank you, Ms Cleeton for telling us the story of Beatriz, sister of Eliza whose story was told in the bestselling novel, "Next year in Havana."

While this story has it' …more
Paris Echo
Paris Echo
by Sebastian Faulks
Paris Echo (8/16/2018)
I am a fan of Sebastian Faulks' novels and his Paris Echo is now a favorite.

Faulks uses an unlikely relationship between Hannah, an American historian, and Tariq, a Moroccan teenager, to tell this multi-layered story. The primary premise is Paris under German occupation and …more
The Family Tabor
The Family Tabor
by Cherise Wolas
A family saga for the introspective reader (4/17/2018)
This is a family saga written from the perspective of the individual parents and their three adult children. Their lives and deepest secrets are laid bare. In the telling we learn much about life choices and their consequences, the impact of even the smallest of lies on our …more
The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Great Storytelling (2/22/2018)
Louis Alberto Urrea is a master storyteller. This book The House of Broken Angels, however had some technical problems. First let me tell you everything I loved. Big Angel, Little Angel, Perla, La Gloriosa, and even the minor characters were wonderful. The stories, the food, …more
Young Jane Young
Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
Witty and Fun (7/23/2017)
I enjoyed Gabrielle Zevin's, A Storied Life of A.J. Fikry for it's moving and witty portrayal of books and there power to help us see things in different ways. Young Jane Young was similar in style: witty and fun but also delivering a message about politics, facing …more
The Gypsy Moth Summer
The Gypsy Moth Summer
by Julia Fierro
A Little of Everything (4/24/2017)
It is the summer of 1992 on an island off the coast of Long Island. The story is told from the point of view of six very different characters. Race, sexuality, politics, pollution class, and dying are all topics explored via the characters. This all takes place along with a …more
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
by April Smith
Good, but slow to get started. (12/11/2016)
I had mixed feelings about this book. The author did an excellent job describing life especially ranching in a small insulated community in western South Dakota. I also enjoyed her descriptions of the community and their reliance on each other.
I found the story and plot a …more
The Dark Lady's Mask
The Dark Lady's Mask
by Mary Sharratt
Shakespeare's Feminist Muse (2/12/2016)
Aemilia Bassano Lanier also spelled Lanyer was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet.

In The Dark Lady's Mask she is portrayed as a young woman deeply resentful of the restrictions put on women. As a result, she delights in the freedoms and …more
Hunters in the Dark
Hunters in the Dark
by Lawrence Osborne
A Dark and Gritty Novel (11/10/2015)
I enjoyed this coming of age book although it is not a type I am normally drawn to.

Osbourne's writing is dark, lush, sumptuous and rich. Atmospheric! It had a gritty, hard edge to it. Osbourne lives in Thailand and this had the sense of reality and place that only someone …more
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