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Juno Loves Legs

July 26, 2023

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With a personality as incendiary and out of control as her flaming red hair, Juno bursts onto the pages of Juno Loves Legs like a wildfire. She and Legs, her best friend, live in a housing estate in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1980s, Ireland, literary

The Talented Miss Farwell

October 16, 2020

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Sometimes, despite being gifted, life doesn’t work out the way you want. For Rebecca Farwell her father’s ineptitude in business and later, a stroke, mean that despite her talent with numbers college ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1980s, art, book clubs, literary, Midwest, suspense

The Immortalists

January 10, 2018

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Chloe Benjamin swings for the fences with the concept of her new novel: how would you live your life if you knew the date of your death? The Immortalists is about four siblings: Varya, Daniel, Klara, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1980s, book clubs, family saga, Putnam

The Lemon Grove

August 30, 2012

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The Lemon Grove takes place in Iran in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War. Behruz Pirzad returns from America to help his family after learning that his twin brother, Ruzbeh, was injured. He suffers ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1980s, cultural, Iran

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