Book Review
Saving Vincent
by Meg Nola
A climate of progressive change backdrops a determined widow’s efforts in the male-dominated art world in the lovely historical novel "Saving Vincent". In Joan Fernandez’s engrossing historical novel "Saving Vincent", Vincent van...
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Exploring Wine Regions: México
by Meg Nola
Exuberant in covering Mexico’s wine country and its splendid natural views, "Exploring Wine Regions: México" is an expansive travel guide. Photojournalist and wine enthusiast Michael C. Higgins’s "Exploring Wine Regions: México" is...
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Boy with Wings
by Meg Nola
An evocative historical novel that celebrates distinctive individuals in the Depression-era South. In Mark Mustian’s riveting historical novel "Boy with Wings", a man’s strange birthmark and winged appendages force him to live as...
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Dog Love Stories
by Meg Nola
Memorializing the pets who shaped her with humor and keen affection, "Dog Love Stories" is a moving memoir. Patricia Eagle’s affecting memoir "Dog Love Stories" celebrates the unique personalities of various dogs who had an integral...
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Mutual Interest
by Meg Nola
In Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s scintillating historical novel "Mutual Interest", an unconventional arrangement leads to business success in post–Gilded Age New York. Determined to escape the confines of upstate New York,...
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The Lady of the Mine
by Meg Nola
In Sergei Lebedev’s harrowing novel "The Lady of the Mine", murdered souls buried in an abandoned Ukrainian coal mine haunt the country’s emerging conflict with Russia. In 2014, Zhanna leaves college to care for her ailing mother,...
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The Delicate Beast
by Meg Nola
In Roger Celestin’s haunting novel "The Delicate Beast", a man’s early experiences in the Tropical Republic are contrasted with his life in exile in the United States and Europe. A boy grows up in the Tropical Republic in the 1950s,...
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Moral Treatment
by Meg Nola
Stephanie Carpenter’s compelling novel "Moral Treatment" explores curative and troubling therapies in a Michigan psychiatric hospital alongside the institutionalization of a young patient. In 1889, seventeen-year-old Amy is certified...