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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Dan Erwine

Blackout and All Clear

Connie Willis is one of the leading figures in science-fiction today. Her recent time-travel novels Blackout and All Clear (2010) won both the Hugo and

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

Kraken

Bookin’ with Sunny may not have a cache of science fiction reviewers to draw on, but with that caveat, let me tell you that Kraken

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The Language of Flowers
Fiction
Sunny Solomon

The Language of Flowers

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Vanessa Diffenbaugh, based on her debut novel The Language of Flowers, is an author to remember. If her opening sentence: “For

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Wife 22

Okay readers, remove the snow chains from the car trunk and replace them with your beach umbrella because, weather-gods willing, summer is just around the

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

Railsea

China Miéville is a national treasure. I only wish he were our national treasure. Let’s adopt him! Mind you, this is coming from a reader

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Pope Joan

Rumors about the possible existence of a female pope apparently have circulated for hundreds of years. If such a woman served Rome and the Catholic

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Dan Erwine

The Boleyn King

This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Loving Frank

Edwin Cheney and his wife, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, greatly admired Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park, Illinois designs, and so commissioned the architect to create something

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Letters from Skye

During the eighteenth century, when readers were still unsure whether or not the new genre of the novel was a legitimate literary form, epistolary novels

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Biography
Ann Ronald

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?” So Robert Louis Stevenson muses in Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan’s new

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Map of Lost Memories

Southeast Asia and its storied past remain mysterious to me.  So I cannot judge the fidelity of Kim Fay’s novel, The Map of Lost Memories;

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

A Wedding in Provence

I’m not a huge romance reader, but Sussman has the genre nailed, and she does it without a kilt wearing Scotsman or a bodice-clad damsel

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Fiction
Brandy Burgess

Ostrich

“And that’s when I understood what Miss Farthingdale had meant… We don’t have a future in English because there’s no such thing. It was just

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Memoir
Ann Ronald

Off The Sidelines

Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World Because I am a bit of a political junkie, I often read biographies and autobiographies of

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Biography
Neal Ferguson

Elizabeth of York

 Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World Alison Weir, author of fourteen books on Medieval and Renaissance Britain, has now written about nearly

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