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When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

April 26, 2021

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Paula McLain is well-known for her historical fiction about women.  This month she flips the script on her readers with When the Stars Go Dark, a complex mystery set in 1990s Northern California. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, crime, mystery, suspense

Love and Ruin by Paula McLain

May 7, 2018

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  It wasn’t bravery when you did what you had to do. Paula McLain’s novel, Circling the Sun, was one of my favorites of 2015, largely because she portrayed Beryl Markham so well as a woman ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, Ballantine, historical fiction, war, women, world war II

Circling the Sun: A Novel

August 10, 2015

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I have a chart that traces my route over the Atlantic, Abingdon to New York, every inch of icy water I’ll pass over, but not the emptiness involved or the loneliness, or the fear. Those things are as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, South Africa, women

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