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The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel
by Eleanor Henderson
The claim of a name (5/13/2017)
This is a history of the people living on the 12 mile straight. Writing influenced more by Carson McCullers or Pat Conroy than William Faulkner, There is a touch of Dickens in the naming of some of the characters. One of the characters, Genus, defines his story. Genus means:more
If We Were Villains
by M. L. Rio
"Hung be the heavens with black"... (3/18/2017)
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" - Shakespeare. This book is divided into Acts and Scenes rather than chapters to emphasize this point and Shakespeare's wordsmore
A Piece of the World: A Novel
by Christina Baker Kline
A simple well-told story of a simple life (12/12/2016)
This is a simple straightforward story about a determined woman with a degenerative disease that lived with her younger brother on the family farm in Maine. When she was in her 40's the woman, Christina Olsen was visited by,a friend, Betsy James and her soon to be husband,more
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