Only The Lonely: Anne Tyler’s last two books, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance were mildly disappointing, but she is back to her A Spool Of Blue Thread form with…
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Mystery Of The Missing Girls: The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James moves between dual time frames as two intrepid young women set out find out just what is going…
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The Count Of Hotel Metropol: If a book remains on the bestseller charts for so long, it demands to be read. And after completing Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow…
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Dead Man Walking: James McBride’s new novel, Deacon King Kong, set in a crumbling Brooklyn housing project in the late sixties, wraps up the history of immigrant and black lives…
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The Name’s IQ: Isaiah Quintabe, better known as IQ, is an unlicensed private eye and the hero of Joe Ide’s crime series, the fourth of which, a hugely entertaining Hi…
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Miracle Of Fate: Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is moving to California, with his parents and beloved older brother Jordan, when the plane they are travelling in crashes, and he is the…
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Extraordinary Love: A character in Isabel Allende’s new novel, says “There will always be pain, but suffering is optional.” This thought runs through A Long Petal Of The Sea, as…
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Roar Of The Lamb: How can one not want to read a book that begins like this: “The owl flew screaming from the barn, its wingtips bright with flame.…
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Life Goes On: Mary Beth Keane’s third novel Ask Again, Yes has been voted by several sites as one of the best books of 2019. A sprawling yet intimate epic…
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Love & Loss: This book finds itself on every list of Best of 2019, capturing with compassion the upheavals in the lives of the Conroy siblings over five decades. At…