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Falcon in the Dive
A teenage spy falls for her sworn enemy and faces impossible choices in Leah Angstman’s novel "Falcon in the Dive". Ani’s comfortable childhood was cut short by the greed of the wealthy, merciless Beaumercy family. As the French...
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Sentimental Education
A chance encounter alters the course of a man’s life in Gustave Flaubert’s freshly translated novel "Sentimental Education". Weak-willed, self-centered Frédéric has just graduated from school. On the boat ride home, the sight of a...
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Pale Shadows
Dominique Fortier’s novel "Pale Shadows" imagines how Emily Dickinson’s death impacted those who loved her. Dickinson did not achieve true fame until after her death. Before that, only a handful of close friends and relatives were...
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Artificial Wisdom
The future-set science fiction novel "Artificial Wisdom" paints a grim but intriguing picture of a climate change-ravaged world in which the truth is hard to find. In Thomas R. Weaver’s science fiction novel "Artificial Wisdom", a...
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Vestige
Young people inherit their parents’ global project in "Vestige", a philosophical science fiction novel. A group of powerful young people decides how, and if, they want to help the world in "Vestige", a novel by an anonymous author....
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Visions of Destiny
Bittersweet and troubling, "Visions of Destiny" is a fantasy novel in which a gifted boy cannot escape what the future has in store for him. In Edward R. Lipinski’s fantasy novel "Visions of Destiny", a reluctant clairvoyant muddles...
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Water Music
Music helps a family to heal their broken bonds, moving past hurt silences, in the lovely novel "Water Music". A summer holiday on Cape Cod tests a family’s wills and loyalties in Marcia Peck’s tender novel "Water Music". In 1956,...
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These Things Happen
Traumas can be escaped via acceptance in the heart-stopping novel "These Things Happen", about cycles of abuse and addiction. In Michael Eon’s novel "These Things Happen", a recovering alcoholic struggles to help his troubled older...