Widow
WIDOW A classic cast of characters populates Sara Dahmen’s novel, Widow. The naïve easterner, a winsome heroine headed West for reasons revealed only piecemeal as
WIDOW A classic cast of characters populates Sara Dahmen’s novel, Widow. The naïve easterner, a winsome heroine headed West for reasons revealed only piecemeal as
PARIS METRO I picked up Wendell Steavenson’s novel, Paris Metro, expecting a terrorist thriller to warm my blood on a cold winter’s evening. If I
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Imagine incarceration, not in an isolated prison cell but in a bustling Moscow hotel, not for a week or a month
The Second Mrs. Hockaday, a book club favorite Belonging to the Clayton Community Library Book Club has its perks. Members now spread the wealth by
Salt Houses Imagine your family displaced, forced from your family home by political maneuverings and wartime invasions that have little to do with your daily
THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE Elizabeth J. Church, who grew up in Los Alamos during the 1950s, writes an addendum to her novel, The Atomic
THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON – A MORE TIMELY READ THAN EVER Totalitarian is an old-fashioned word but then the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea
MAUD MARTHA I don’t even know when I bought Maud Martha or what it was that made me finally pull it off my shelf to read back
THREE BY MELOY: THE APOTHECARY – THE APPRENTICES – THE AFTER-ROOM I’m going out on a limb with this review. The three novels, The Apothecary, The
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Cora, born a slave, abandoned by her mother, beaten and whipped repeatedly, gang-raped at thirteen, nevertheless acts with courage and integrity in
GIRL IN THE BLUE COAT When I reached page 239 of Monica Hesse’s 301-page novel, Girl in the Blue Coat, I thought to myself that
America’s First Daughter – From Monticello to Jefferson’s White House, She Shaped the Legacy of a Nation Patsy Jefferson’s mother died when her daughter was
Ruta Sepetys’ latest novel, Salt to the Sea, returns to the topic of World War II, but it is not about any famous battles or
Not All Bastards Are From Vienna Because the hundredth anniversary of World War I occurs this decade, a plethora of war novels is being published
Finale – A Novel of the Reagan Years Political junkies, rejoice! Thomas Mallon has written another novel fictionalizing American politics. I recently reviewed Watergate for
Lazaretto What does it truly mean to be black (or not) and why does it matter? Lazaretto by Diane Mckinney-Whetstone challenges these questions and more.
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