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Casebook: A Novel

April 21, 2014

casebook

  From the time he is nine years old Miles Adler-Rich is a snoop. Not just a hanging around snoop, a hiding walkie-talkies and wiring-an-extension-into-the-family’s-phone-line snoop. Initially, he ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, contemporary life, Knopf

The Death of Bees

December 23, 2013

death of bees

There are times when what is needed is a story so utterly foreign that it plucks us out of our own world and drops us into one for which our background leaves us completely unprepared. I found this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, Harper, Scotland

Dare Me: A Novel

September 2, 2013

Dare Me

  Written with all the hip-popping, hyper-hormonal intensity of teenage girls, Dare Me takes everything you’ve ever thought about cheerleaders and magnifies it tenfold. A group of  girls, part of the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, contemporary life, Reagan Arthur Books, suspense, young adult

Shorecliff: A Novel

July 31, 2013

Shorecliff

  The present then is so thrilling that it is impossible to reflect on it; one can only wait, panting, for the future to unfold. Like almost any child, Richard is looking forward to summer, but ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1920s, coming-of-age, debut, historical fiction, Little Brown and Company, New England

The Silver Star

June 14, 2013

The Silver Star is author Jeannette Walls’ latest foray into fiction. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, is an intimate look at her childhood, when benign neglect, became not-so benign, as neither of her ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1970s, book clubs, coming-of-age, family, Scribner

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