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Mr. Chartwell
Reviews
Sunny Solomon

Mr. Chartwell

MR. CHARTWELL Rebecca Hunt‘s debut novel is one that holds a weird distinction for me: It is a story that repels and compels at the

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Thirteenth Tale

Imagine Daphne du Maurier, sipping absinthe and smoking pot, while rereading Jane Eyre and rewriting The Turn of the Screw! That is precisely my impression

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Darwin’s Sword

Two-thirds of the way through his science fiction novel, Darwin’s Sword, D. L. Whitehead acknowledges a Frankenstein parallel. Long before that, I had already decided

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Children’s early and middle readers
Sunny Solomon

Du Iz Tak?

DU IZ TAK? If I were still selling books at a brick and mortar, Carson Ellis’s Du Iz Tak? would be flying off the shelf.

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Zora & Me
Authors of color
Sunny Solomon

Zora & Me, The Cursed Ground

ZORA & ME, THE CURSED GROUND, the power of childhood memories to raise a forgotten writer back to a deserved literary recognition. When Candlewick Press

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Tahoe Ghost Boat

Tahoe Ghost Boat: An Owen McKenna Mystery Driving down Spooner Summit on my way to South Lake Tahoe from Reno, I had no trouble staying

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Fiction
Dan Erwine

Moonbird Boy

Moonbird Boy is the fourth in a series of five mystery novels by Abigail Padgett, published as a series in the mid-1990s. All five novels

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British Authors
Ann Ronald

Susan Hill x Three

THE VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN  –  THE PURE IN HEART  – THE RISK OF DARKNESS Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler series features an introspective chief superintendent

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Crime
Ann Ronald

Night School

NIGHT SCHOOL – JACK REACHER AND CLASSMATES? Night School, Lee Child’s twentieth Jack Reacher novel, isn’t the first I’ve reviewed for “Bookin’ with Sunny’ and

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Fiction
Brandy Burgess

The Marvels

THE MARVELS “You either see it or you don’t,” is the motto that binds together the plot of The Marvels. Written and illustrated by Brian

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