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The Year of the Horses: A Memoir

August 17, 2022

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Courtney Maum’s memoir opens with a scene of a young daughter refusing her mother’s help to put on her socks despite the fact that they’re going to be late for an appointment. Maum is the mother and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, marriage, memoir, motherhood, women, writers' lives

The House of Hawthorne

May 6, 2015

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Erika Robuck is an author who loves to explore the lives of other authors through her fiction. She continues this tradition in her latest, The House of Hawthorne, by following Sophia Peabody as she is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, NAL, New England, writers' lives

Vanessa and her Sister

January 5, 2015

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Virginia Woolf is an icon in the world of literature and much has been written about her life so it is a courageous move on the part of author Priya Parmar to explore not Virginia but her lesser known ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, Ballantine, book clubs, England, family, historical fiction, writers' lives

Mrs. Poe

September 23, 2013

Mrs Poe

  Mrs. Poe is author Lynn Cullen’s fictional look at the relationship between American poet Frances Osgood and Edgar Allen Poe, told from Osgood’s point of view. The novel opens in Manhattan with ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 19th century, book clubs, Gallery, historical fiction, New York City, writers' lives

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