Posted on: July 26, 2023
by Mikki Brammer
Reviewed by Janet:From a young age, Clover Brooks has been fascinated by death. This led to graduate work in thanatology and then to her work as a death doula, helping dying individuals prepare emotionally and psychologically for that fina...
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Posted on: June 14, 2023
by Jenny Jackson
Reviewed by Janet:The Stocktons are old money - the family home on Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights is filled with antiques and generations of family treasures. Siblings Darley, Cord, and Georgiana grew up there, and Cord now lives the...
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Posted on: March 22, 2023
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...
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Posted on: February 8, 2023
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...
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Posted on: January 11, 2023
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,...
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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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Posted on: December 29, 2021
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,...
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Posted on: February 23, 2022
by Christina Dalcher
Reviewed by Janet:From the author of Vox and Master Class comes another dystopian look at how the social structure has marginalized women for years. After a nationwide economic collapse, Miranda and her daughter are forced to seek shel...
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