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Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton
A Lovely Hare Raising Story (2/12/2025)
When author Chloe Dalton decamps from London to her country home to wait out the Covid lockdown, she has no idea her sojourn will result in writing an exquisite memoir about a relationship with a wild hare. In Raising Hare, she chronicles coming across a newborn "leveret" (more
The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by Ruthvika Rao
Tragedy and Tribulations: Can Love Win Out? (7/9/2024)
Ruthvika Rao's sweeping debut novel, The Fertile Earth, chronicles a tense and emotional Romeo-and-Juliet-esque saga that begins with a childhood infatuation and plays out over years of separation, hardships, miscommunication and joy. All this against the backdrop ofmore
The Divorcees
by Rowan Beaird
Did What Went on in Reno Stay in Reno? (11/29/2023)
THE DIVORCÉES, a novel by Rowan Beaird, invites us into the peculiar world of an up-scale "divorce ranch" in 1950s Reno, Nevada where women come to establish a six-week residency before filing for a quick and easy divorce. Lois Saunders arrives by train from Lake Forestmore
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
by Carl Safina
A Remarkable Tale Indeed (10/6/2023)
Carl Safina's Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe is a book I savored slowly as he recounts his rescue of an almost dead owlet from the forest floor near his home on Long Island, New York, and shares with readers the lessons he learned.

Safina is a renownedmore
Delicate Condition
by Danielle Valentine
She Had Me at the Prologue. (7/27/2023)
Danielle Valentine's novel, "Delicate Condition," is a harrowing tale told in first person by Anna Alcott, an actor who, after 20 years, is finally getting attention for her role in an Oscar-bound indie film. At the same time, though, as her biological clock ticks on, she'smore
Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
by Tanya Frank
A Mother Seeks for Answers and Acceptance for her Son's Sudden Illness (2/18/2023)
Zig-Zag Boy is Tanya Frank's memoir about her heartbreaking journey through a decade of trauma after her nineteen-year-old son Zach experiences a sudden psychotic break. Right from the first terrifying chapter, I was gripped by her descriptions of her frantic search formore
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