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Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

July 15, 2025

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When Culpability begins the Cassidy-Shaws are heading to one of their children’s sports tournaments when their minivan is hit by another car veering into their lane, resulting in two fatalities. The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, technology, vacation reading

The Wolf Wants In

August 5, 2019

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Blackwater is a town hovering near Kansas City; a place of farmers and granaries.  It’s also one of those small towns with big problems. The opioid crisis is taking its toll, a little girl has been ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: crime, family, literary, Midwest, mystery

From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir

October 19, 2018

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  It may sound like fiction, but it’s fact: Beck Dorey-Stein answered a Craigslist ad and got a job working as a stenographer at the White House.  She was there for Barack Obama’s second term as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: memoir, new adult, politics, Random House

The Lucky Ones: A Novel

March 20, 2017

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  Covering a span from the early 1990s to present day, The Lucky Ones is a novel about Colombia that is as densely dark as that country’s rainforests. Like those forests the novel is home to a ... Read More...

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February Library Checkout

February 29, 2016

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  Month 2 of 2016 wraps up tomorrow and what a month it’s been. You would think that with this extra day I’d be overflowing with creativity and verve, but instead I’m in some kind of mucky ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, library, lists, mini-reviews, social issues

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