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The Headmaster’s Wife

March 3, 2014

headmasters wife

Some books are written with the intent to stun a reader with surprise and don’t offer much beyond that. Others, like The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene, use the surprise (the double ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, New England, suspense, Thomas Dunne Books

In the Blood

January 6, 2014

in the blood

We telegraph our inner lives with what we choose to eat, how we eat it, what we wear, how we carry ourselves, the words we use and don’t use. We tell about ourselves in a million small and large ways. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: mystery, suspense, Touchstone

The Abominable

December 13, 2013

abominable

  Our valley is in darkness, but Everest blazes far beyond and above us in a cold, powerful, self-contained isolation. That strikes me as terrifying.  In 1924 the British alpine climbing community ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Little Brown and Company, Mount Everest, mystery, suspense

Doctor Sleep: A Novel

November 13, 2013

doctor sleep

  If you are one of the five people on the planet who has never read Stephen King let me bring you up to speed. He is the prolific writer of some of the all-time scariest books in history. The only ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, horror, Scribner, suspense

Mother Mother

September 20, 2013

mother mother

Koren Zailckas doesn’t waste any time. In her first novel Mother, Mother: A Novel she takes no more than one hundred pages to pull the mask off Josephine Hurst, a woman who believes she is the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Crown, debut, family, suspense

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