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March Library Checkout

April 4, 2016

march library

Three months into a new year may be too soon to call a trend, but accuracy has never been a strong suit for me so I’m going to say it: My library reading has significantly outperformed my ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: library, lists, mini-reviews

The Widow: A Novel

February 19, 2016

the widow

  We’ve all seen the real-life stories of women married to men who have committed heinous crimes and they never knew it. Fiona Barton looks at one such wife in her new novel The Widow. In it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, mystery, NAL

White Collar Girl

November 4, 2015

  Jordan Walsh comes from a family of writers. Her father is a well-known journalist in Chicago, her mother is a poet and up until his death two years ago, her brother Eliot was poised to carry ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1950s, book clubs, Chicago, historical fiction, NAL, women

The House of Hawthorne

May 6, 2015

hawthorne

Erika Robuck is an author who loves to explore the lives of other authors through her fiction. She continues this tradition in her latest, The House of Hawthorne, by following Sophia Peabody as she is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, NAL, New England, writers' lives

What the Lady Wants

November 12, 2014

what the lady

  For almost as long as I have loved books I have loved fashion and before my career in the book world I was a buyer for a large department store in Atlanta called Rich’s. Remember the good old days ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 19th century, book clubs, Chicago, fashion, historical fiction, NAL

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