Reviews by Elizabeth W. (Terrebonne, OR)

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Going Home: A Novel
by Tom Lamont
Engaging, sensitive debut novel (11/26/2024)
The novel's strengths for me
-Vividly drawn characters and relationships
-friends from different socio-economic backgrounds trying to honor the past and negotiate the harsh realities of the present.
-A rabbi accepting and responding to a temporary lapse of faith
-A thirty-year-more
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
the history we never learned in school (8/16/2024)
The book is divided into topics each written by an expert in the subject being explored. The writing is concise and spares no details. As the book progresses many connections are made between the underlying economics of slavery, fear and humankind 's need for power andmore
All You Have to Do Is Call
by Kerri Maher
Feminist History (6/30/2023)
All You Have to Do is Call took a while to get into; it felt light and a bit too much like chick-lit as the characters were first introduced. But the author carefully builds her characters and fleshes them out. The budding of women's liberation and the march forward onmore
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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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