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Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

November 28, 2016

your heart is a muscle

  Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is one of those novels that runs on pure adrenaline. Author Sunil Yapa drops the reader into the chaos of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with such ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, contemporary fiction, Lee Boudreaux Books, literary, Pacific Northwest

Mischling

September 8, 2016

mischling

  It’s hard to imagine there is a place more horrible than Auschwitz but Affinity Konar has found the horror within the horror by setting her novel Mischling in Josef Mengele’s lab. Pearl and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Europe, historical fiction, Lee Boudreaux Books, literary, WWII

As Close to Us as Breathing

March 23, 2016

as close to us

  Sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec inherited their family’s cabin on the Connecticut shore and now they convene every summer, staying with their children during the week while their husbands drive up ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1940s, book clubs, family saga, historical fiction, Lee Boudreaux Books, literary, New England

Tender: A Novel

February 22, 2016

tender

  There are few things more exhilarating or frightening than college. Old enough to know there is more out there but young enough to have no idea what it is. Into this world comes ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, Ireland, Lee Boudreaux Books, literary

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