Book Review
The Giggling Ghost Girl Scout Mystery
The glamor and glitz of girl scouting will entice young readers into this mystery set in Savannah, Georgia. The city’s reputation as “the most haunted town in America” provides a thrilling backdrop to the sightseeing of five young...
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Blue Earth
Dreamlike retrospection begins a slow motion version of the tornado with which this novel opens, spiraling down through seemingly bottomless layers of memory to alter psychological terrain as relentlessly as wind and rain reshape the...
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dayclean
Set in Beaufort, South Carolina, near the Sea Islands, and titled for the local concept of “dayclean”—the promising moment just before sunrise—this warm-hearted mystery featuring a fusion of cultures and dialects avows the...
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The Stranger Within Sarah Stein
“It is a terrible thing when a child is hidden,” explains Sarah Stein’s grandmother, a Holocaust survivor whose parents placed her in a convent, “it is dangerous to become two people…and to remain in hiding too long…I...
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Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids
Parents struggle endlessly to maintain positive, effective relationships with their children. This book’s insights come in bite-size nuggets that will stay with readers for far longer than the fleeting time it will take to read, but...
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I Moved Your Cheese
As Spencer Johnson’s iconic Who Moved My Cheese? clarified for many readers nearly fifteen years ago, change is inevitable. We must either adapt or be left behind. Enter Deepak Malhotra, a professor at the Harvard Business School, who...
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Hurt Machine
When hard-boiled private investigator Moe Prager embarks on what seems a fool’s quest to find the murderer of Alta Conseco, his ex-wife’s sister, he has just received a dire prognosis from his oncologist. Welcoming the distraction...
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Nothing Left to Lose
This beautifully written novel turns war’s fantasies of glorious heroism into an elegy for all who sail the “Sea of Faith” that Matthew Arnold describes in “Dover Beach.” William Carson is a World War II veteran who believes he...