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The Girls from Corona del Mar

Catherine — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 04:42:33 +0000

When Lorrie Ann and Mia become best friends, Mia believes herself to be the shadow behind Lorrie Ann’s golden girl. By the time they reach high school Mia is even more sure that Lorrie Ann is everything she is not. She is kind, caring and good, part of a tight knit family while Mia sees […]

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Catherine — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:53:01 +0000

A young woman named Vincent is at the heart of The Glass Hotel, a novel that stretches its plot around the globe and into the world of high finance, hotels, restaurants, and even global oceanic shipping. It’s a complex brew of stories and people who meet, side- step, brush up against, or collide, with each […]

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House of Trelawney

Catherine — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:26:36 +0000

An 800-year-old family estate in Cornwall, England is at the heart of Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, House of Trelawney. The house is occupied by Kitto and Jane, the current Earl and Viscountess; their three children, and his infirm parents. What’s missing is the money needed to keep Trelawney running. Actually, there isn’t even enough money […]

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Weather: A Novel by Jenny Offill

Catherine — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:34:55 +0000

Lizzie has a good life. She’s an academic librarian with a loving husband and a young son. Her mother, although more religiously inclined than Lizzie will ever be, is in good health. Her brother has kicked his pill addiction, found a girlfriend and a job. Into this relative quiet comes an old mentor of Lizzie’s […]

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The Secrets We Kept

Catherine — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:16:30 +0000

I love learning something from my fiction so was pleased to find out that Lara Prescott’s novel, The Secrets We Kept is based on a true story from the Cold War. Even better, it involves espionage and literature. It seems, at the time, the CIA wanted to use the power of the written word to effect […]

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The Body Lies by Jo Baker

Catherine — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 07:18:17 +0000

A young, pregnant woman walking home is beaten on a busy street. Only by biting the man’s hand does she escape before he rapes her. This random act of violence is pivotal in her life and, despite a happy marriage and a healthy baby, three years later she still finds herself haunted by the event. […]

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The River by Peter Heller

Catherine — Mon, 27 May 2019 07:45:48 +0000

Books written by men and about men? No thanks. All about canoeing and camping? Hard pass. Set entirely in the wilderness? Nope. Peter Heller’s new novel, The River? 5 stars. Yes, you read that right. Nothing about this novel’s description appealed to me, but when my friend Susie recommended it I knew I had to […]

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Dark Fiction: Waiting for Eden

Catherine — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:38:03 +0000

Much of Elliot Ackerman’s Waiting for Eden takes place in a hospital room. A room where Eden Malcolm has been in a coma for three years. He was a young man so full of life that He treated the whole world, too, like it was a series of cliffs that existed for no other […]

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Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

Catherine — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 08:41:17 +0000

Where to begin about Killing Commendatore? This chunkster of a book is about a portrait artist who breaks with his current life after his wife leaves him. He moves into a remote home that allows him a quiet life away from his work. Until, he discovers a hidden painting in the attic and a man […]

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The Book of Essie: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:04:29 +0000

For most young girls, being seventeen and pregnant is not a good place to be. For Esther Hicks it’s even worse because she is the youngest daughter of a fundamentalist pastor and part of a reality TV show about their family. With a life played out in front of the camera and the nation, how […]

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