Posted on: January 12, 2023
by Kristin Hannah
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman&ap...
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Posted on: January 12, 2023
by Jerald Walker
Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising b...
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Posted on: January 12, 2023
by Louise Erdrich
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who ...
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Posted on: January 12, 2023
by Gary Shteyngart
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betr...
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Posted on: April 21, 2021
by Jennifer Ryan
Reviewed by Janet:From the author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes another heartwarming story from a small village in England during World War II. Just two years into the war, food rationing is a daily challenge in most households, and ...
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Posted on: September 25, 2019
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Reviewed by Janet:It all begins in 1940, when Vivian Morris flunks out of Vassar. Her wealthy parents send her to New York City to live with her Aunt Peg, owner of a neighborhood theater in Midtown. Vivian immerses herself in this unco...
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Posted on: July 11, 2018
by Kristin Hannah
Reviewed by Janet:When Ernt Allbright, who has been scarred physically and psychologically by his time in Vietnam, learns he has inherited land in Alaska, he sees it as a place to begin again. Cora and Leni, his wife and daughter, soon co...
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Posted on: April 18, 2018
by Eva Woods
Reviewed by Janet:While visiting her mother in hospital, Annie finds herself being swept out of her unhappy life and along with the irresistible force that is Polly. A colorful, irrepressible patient with a brain tumor, Polly has chosen to mak...
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Posted on: February 21, 2018
by A. J. Finn
Reviewed by Janet:Anna is agoraphobic, and confined to her home on a residential street in New York City. She spends her time watching classic movies, playing chess online, counseling other agoraphobics, and watching her neighbors. And drinki...
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Posted on: January 24, 2018
by Sarah Miller
Reviewed by Janet:For those who loved the Little House on the Prairie series as children, this is a perfect opportunity to revisit the Ingalls family as they leave Wisconsin and head for Indian Territory. Told from the perspective of Caroli...
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Posted on: August 9, 2017
by Gail Honeyman
Reviewed by Janet:Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, thank you very much. She is quite settled and safe in her routine, keeping herself to herself, moving from work to home and back, with 2 bottles of vodka on the weekend. Yet her carefu...
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