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Crux by Gabriel Tallent

Catherine — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:33:32 +0000

Life in a nowhere town in the Mojave Desert should be torture for teens, but Daniel and Tamma are rock-climbing freaks and the area is filled with challenging boulders. Best friends since childhood they spend every waking moment not in school out on the rocks, but as Crux opens it is senior year. Daniel is […]

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Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books

Catherine — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:17:55 +0000

It begins with a letter sent from Paris to Seattle. Nothing romantic or between friends, but business because in 1991 that’s how these things were done. Frida writes to the Puget Sound Book Store looking for a book. Kate is the employee delegated with filling this customer request. Neither could know that this brief correspondence […]

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Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

Catherine — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:38:24 +0000

A successful food writer, Nina Dean is happy with her life. She has close friends, her own apartment in London, and her breakup with her longtime boyfriend was amicable. She’s happy being alone, but a partner would be nice as well, so with her sense of self-esteem mostly in place she makes the foray back […]

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The Lion Women of Tehran

Catherine — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:18:40 +0000

When Ellie’s father unexpectedly dies, she and her mother find their circumstances dramatically changed for the worse. There is so little money left they have to sell their beautiful home and move to a tiny apartment in downtown Tehran. It is her mother’s worst nightmare, but for 7-year-old Ellie it means meeting Homa, the girl […]

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The Rachel Incident

Catherine — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:41:11 +0000

Rachel is working in London as a journalist when an unfamiliar man throws out a name from her past that catapults her back to her university days. From this modern-day beginning author Caroline O’Donoghue jumps back to 2008 when the Irish economy was in freefall, Rachel was in her third year of university, and she […]

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Rules for Visiting: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:15:52 +0000

May Attaway is given a monthlong sabbatical from her job as a gardener at a local university. At 39 she worries about her lack of relationships so decides to split the month into four non-consecutive weeks and go visit four friends she’s lost touch with in the hopes of kickstarting her personal life again. This […]

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Catherine — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:24:26 +0000

Gaming has never been my thing, aside from a brief flirtation with Centipede when I was working alone as a bartender and could play for free during the slow hours. For this reason, I had no interest in reading, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a novel about two gamers. The premise of […]

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Love & Saffron: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:40:27 +0000

Seattle and Los Angeles, same coast but vastly different places, especially in the 1960s. Imogene Fortier writes a column known to readers in the Pacific Northwest so is surprised to not only get a fan letter, but a gift from a young woman in L.A. It’s a small packet of saffron with a recipe for […]

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All Together Now

Catherine — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 04:36:36 +0000

After State of Terror I was in desperate need of reading that would unclench my jaw. I was grateful to find it with Matthew Norman’s All Together Now, an entertaining novel about a group of high school friends now in their 30s, coming back together for the first time in almost a decade. Robbie is a […]

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Three Girls from Bronzeville

Catherine — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 04:15:28 +0000

Dawn and her baby sister, Kim, live in an apartment building in the South Chicago neighborhood known as Bronzeville. In the apartment above them lives Debra, Dawn’s best friend. The area is the hub of the Great Migration—Blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South for the prospect of prosperity and equality. Three Girls from Bronzeville is […]

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