Book Review
The Reluctant First Lady
Get ready for a change of pace and a quick touchdown into the political and personal lives of the president and the first lady. It may not be at all what one would expect, especially since this wife of a president has decided to forego...
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The Double Cross
The first in Carla Kelly’s new Spanish Brand series, "The Double Cross" is a late-eighteenth-century story set in the Comancheria region of the American frontier that encompasses a large part of both Texas and New Mexico. Don Marco...
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Blackmoore
Admirers of Austen, Gaskell, and the Brontë sisters will enjoy this light tale of romance set in the early nineteenth century. The heroine, Kate Worthington, appears to be deadset against marrying. She has set her sights instead on an...
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Escape from Paris
In this tightly-written war thriller, the reader is brought into the scene quickly as the author introduces the characters in situ and one by one—characters whose fates will soon intertwine through heart-wrenching situations and...
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Lies Deceit and an Innocent Man
The premise of Lies, Deceit and an Innocent Man is a good one and could make for an excellent mystery novel. A man returns, after many years in prison, to his hometown, where his life falls apart following a woman’s murder. He is,...
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Dandelion Hunter
Need to survive the apocalypse? There’s a plant for that. If natural disaster strikes and grocery store shelves go bare, what could an apartment dweller find to eat? The thought of “apocalypse insurance” drove Rebecca Lerner to...
Book Review
The King's Jar
A tightly written mystery set within a whirlwind promenade through the world of fine art, as seen through the eyes of a museum fund-raiser. A celadon funerary jar, ancient and priceless, goes missing from the Devor Museum, and...
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Washika
Robert A. Poirier’s "Washika" is the story of a group of high school graduates from Quebec who spend a summer in the ’60s working on a log drive on the Cabonga River. The story is divided into four parts and begins slowly, with much...