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Boo: A Novel

July 15, 2015

boo

You are thirteen; standing in front of your locker at school one morning and the next thing you know you wake up in an austere white room and are informed you’ve been ‘rebirthed’ into Heaven, although ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, Vintage, young adult

Above the East China Sea

May 1, 2015

above the east china sea

    How has he not had it drummed into him that brats don’t whine? We don’t plead. We don’t need. We require nothing. Not even real roots. We’re air ferns. In Sarah Bird's new novel ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, historical fiction, literary, Vintage, world war II

Plainsong

December 2, 2013

Plainsong

  From an aerial satellite view one might think Holt, Colorado to be a town so tiny as to be without interest. That would be the case if not for Kent Haruf, who brings this town to quiet, poignant ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, literary, the West, Vintage

The Engagements

August 12, 2013

The Engagements

J. Courtney Sullivan returns, this time turning her insightful eyes to a subject dear to many women’s hearts and one that epitomizes the eternal hope of love, diamonds. In her latest novel, The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, historical fiction, jewelry, Vintage

Seating Arrangements

May 15, 2013

Seating Arrangements

  Seating Arrangements is the weekend long drama of the Van Meter family, gathered in their house on Waskeke Island, off the New England coast. For the family patriarch it is a time largely viewed as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, family, Vintage, weddings

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