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The Last Girl: A Maeve Kerrigan Novel
by Jane Casey

The Last Girl (4/28/2013)

A complex who-done-it from start to the final chapter, THE LAST GIRL by Jane Casey includes all the necessities for success: difficult character relationships, a smart plot, vivid imagery and an abundance of food for thought. Unlike most thrillers these days, Casey's THE …more

Where You Can Find Me: A Novel
by Sheri Joseph

Interiors... (2/12/2013)

A mother's anguished love for a son who has returned from the depths of hell to which fate had seemingly committed him, his sister's pure, nonjudgmental love for him, the first and only knight in her young existence, and the victim's remorseful guilt and an subconscious …more

The Spy Lover
by Kiana Davenport

Tinker, Soldier, Spy (12/18/2012)

The Civil War comes to life with Kiana Davenport's THE SPY LOVER. The author's graphic telling of a Chinese immigrant who had to escape China to save his life, only to be conscripted from a ship to serve in the Union Army, where he encounters
more hatred and prejudice from …more

The Edge of the Earth
by Christina Schwarz

Choices and Consequences (10/24/2012)

When an old woman returns to the place of her birth, she reminisces about the past, about the delights of childhood and the challenges of living on a peninsula off the northern California Coast. in Christinia Schwarz' novel "THE EDGE OF THE EARTH", an inherited manuscript …more

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
by Rachel Joyce

An "unlikely journey" indeed! (7/9/2012)

If the "meek shall inherit the earth," certainly Harold Fry in Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will be among the crowd. In his allegorical five hundred mile foot journey in a pair of yachting shoes to save the cancer-ridden Queenie from the fangs of the …more

Paris in Love: A Memoir
by Eloisa James

Hedonism 101 (3/12/2012)

If we could all live in Eloise James' "moment," what a smorgasbord of delightful memories we would have with us to take us to the grave. James has it all: a wonderful and tolerant husband, two bright, articulate children, a pocketbook that allows fine dining, the best …more

Losing Clementine: A Novel
by Ashley Ream

Losing Clementine ? No-o-way! (2/13/2012)

Ashley Ream's Clementine in her novel LOSING CLEMENTINE does what every woman wants to do at one time in her life: she eats everything she wants without guilt, dumps her kitchen ware out the window, and, in her despondency over a failed marriage, almost whispers goodbye to …more

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A love triangle reveals deadly secrets in this thriller for fans of *The Paper Palace* and *Where the Crawdads Sing*.

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