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Reviews by Linda K. (Belvidere, IL)

The Language of Secrets
by Dianne Dixon

Captivating! (2/17/2010)

Sir Walter Scott probably said it best, “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”. No one wants to hurt the ones they love, but sometimes in our effort to protect those loved ones it seems necessary to engage in little white lies, or lies of …more

The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education
by Maya Frost

If I could do it all again... (11/12/2009)

If I could do it all again, I would wait about 40 years to be born so that I could read The New Global Student during my summer vacation after 8th grade, and begin my high school years with a different outlook. Fortunately, for those of you who were born in the late 90s and …more

Baking Cakes in Kigali
by Gaile Parkin

There's More To A Cake Than Flour And Water (6/23/2009)

The main character, Angel, bakes cakes. Her cakes are far more than an edible pastry. Each cake she bakes celebrates an occasion that is laced with sadness and despair, as no one has gone untouched by the horrors of genocide Rwanda lived through. If that was not enough, …more

How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer

How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer (12/16/2008)

We hear that, “Not to Decide is to Decide.” Thus, it would appear that we are always making decisions – one way or another.

But exactly what is involved in making decisions? What happens internally, in our bodies and our brains? And when we make a decision, is it because we …more

The Christmas Train
by David Baldacci

The Christmas Train, by David Baldacci (12/16/2008)

I chose this book for our book club to read this month December. This time of the year, there is an abundance of light holiday reads. This was one of them. The main character has been banned to train travel, and he has to make it from the east coast to the west coast in …more

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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

Based on the author’s family story, comes an extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ escape from Taiwan.

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The Lilac People
by Milo Todd

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.

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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

Praised by Parade and The New York Times Book Review, this debut features a 1960s scientist turned TV cooking star.

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