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Posted on: March 22, 2023

Two Nights in Lisbon

by Chris Pavone

Reviewed by Janet:Ariel Pryce wakes up in a Lisbon hotel and discovers that her husband John is gone. In desperation, she first goes to the police and then to the American Embassy. Throughout the questioning, it becomes clear that that both...

Posted on: March 8, 2023

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

by Bushra Rehman

Reviewed by Janet:Razia Mirza is growing up in Corona, Queens, an immigrant neighborhood in transition in the 1980s. Once in their teens, she and her friends rebel in small ways - listening to music, wearing skirts, and other actions not a...

Posted on: February 22, 2023

The Cloisters

by Katy Hays

Reviewed by Janet:If you haven’t already visited this museum near New York City, this thriller may just get you there! When Ann Stilwell arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to start her summer internship, she discovers the posi...

Posted on: February 8, 2023

Dinosaurs

by Lydia Millet

Reviewed by Janet:When he decides to make a new start in his life, Gil begins by walking from Manhattan to his new home in Arizona. (His belongings go in a moving van.) He thinks of his new home as a castle, with big rooms and high ceilings...

Posted on: January 25, 2023

Our Missing Hearts

by Celeste Ng

Reviewed by Janet:After the past few years, it’s not hard to accept this dystopian version of the United States, where a period of crisis has led to the adoption of the Preserving American Culture & Traditions Act (PACT), a stat...

Posted on: January 12, 2023

The Four Winds

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...

Posted on: January 12, 2023

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

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...

Posted on: January 12, 2023

The Sentence

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 ...

Posted on: January 12, 2023

Our Country Friends

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...

Posted on: January 11, 2023

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

Reviewed by Janet:Another amazing novel by the author of All the Light We Cannot See, this book has plot lines in the past, present, and future, all linking to an ancient Greek book that tells the story of Aethon. Although centuries apart,...

Posted on: January 11, 2023

Shrines of Gaiety

by Kate Atkinson

Reviewed by Janet:When Nellie Coker is released from prison, her family is in the throng waiting outside. Also at hand is Detective Chief Inspector Frobisher, on loan from Scotland Yard to ferret out corruption at Bow Street Police Station...

Posted on: December 28, 2022

Has Anyone Seen My Toes?

by Christopher Buckley

Reviewed by Janet:If you are ready for a comedic romp through the pandemic, this is the book for you! An aging and overweight screenwriter is doing his best to survive the pandemic in South Carolina with his second wife, Peaches. The...

Posted on: December 14, 2022

Mika in Real Life

by Emiko Jean

Reviewed by Janet:Mika finds herself unemployed – again – and money is getting tight. This isn’t the life she had planned, but one night during her first year of college changed everything. Everything changes aga...

Posted on: November 30, 2022

The House Across the Lake

by Riley Sager

Reviewed by Janet:Casey Fletcher has been banished to the family cottage on Greene Lake by her mother after showing up drunk at work – on a Broadway stage. The cottage may not be the best place for her to ride out the media storm, ...

Posted on: August 10, 2022

The Cartographers

by Peng Shepherd

Reviewed by Janet:Nell hasn’t seen her father since the day he had her fired from her dream job at the New York Public Library. But he’s been found dead at his desk in the map library, and in a secret compartment of the...

Posted on: April 21, 2021

The Kitchen Front

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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