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Fiction

Fiction
Ann Ronald

Blood & Beauty

Blood & Beauty retells the story of the Borgia family’s rise to power at the height of the Italian Renaissance. The novel begins on August

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Burgess Boys

The Burgess Boys belongs to a literary genre that I might facetiously describe as “familial angst.” Written for mildly neurotic women readers and populated by

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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

Ghostman

Roger Hobbs almost explodes onto the thriller scene in his debut novel Ghostman. We may never know the Ghostman’s identity but the Ghostman is a character

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The Round House
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Round House

THE ROUND HOUSE The Round House, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, foregrounds all of her considerable talents. Set on an Ojibwe Indian reservation in North Dakota,

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Pirate King

Pirate King is Laurie R. King’s eleventh Sherlock Holmes novel, starring Mary Russell. My Bantam trade paperback copy of the book contains a special treat—the

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Claude & Camille
Biography
Sunny Solomon

Claude & Camille

Claude & Camille A Novel of Monet Today, if one hears the name of the artist Claude Monet, a picture of a Japanese bridge crossing

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Fiction
Joanne Mallari

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street: 25th Anniversary Edition What purpose does art serve? What inspires you to practice your craft? These are questions that aspiring

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Boy in the Suitcase

Let me begin this review with a glittering generality. I find contemporary Scandinavian murder mysteries to be graphic, violent, unsettling, and almost off-putting. I try

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Sun Going Down

While I am reading a book that I plan to review, I am constantly thinking of words and phrases that might best describe the author’s

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Fiction
Dan Erwine

True Believers

True Believers is a book for boomers, the generation that came of age in the 1960’s, a turbulent time of political unrest in America. There were

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Stranger’s Child

I don’t think I’ve ever read such an intricately patterned novel about generations of gay men. The Stranger’s Child moves from the beginning of the

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Tiger's Curse
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Aubrey Siino

Tiger’s Curse is burning bright

TIGER’S CURSE From werewolves to weretigers, Tiger’s Curse takes a new spin on the shape-shifting love interests for which young adult paranormal romances are becoming

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

A Change of Altitude

Best-selling novelist Anita Shreve spent three years in Kenya in the late 1970s. While there, she worked as a journalist, and she even climbed Mount

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Ed King

Because I was born and raised in Seattle, I look for books by Pacific Northwest authors. Since reading Snow Falling on Cedars, one of my

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