Sunday, April 6, 2025

The Maker Of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell

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  It's a strange household, this mansion in the countryside.  The owner, Mister Crowe, is the member of a secret cult where his talents ...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Monsters by Claire Dederer

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  This book, by critic Claire Dederer, questions what is the ethical thing to do when we discover that one of our heroes in the arts is disc...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

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  Alexandra Boyd has come to Bulgaria to teach English and to honor the memory of her brother whose dream had been to come there.  She comes...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

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  Some love affairs are best never started.  If Paul and Julian had never met, three lives would not have been ruined.  Paul is an introvert...
Monday, March 31, 2025

You Dreamed Of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue

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  This novel is about the clash of two cultures in the early 1500's.  One is the Aztec culture, centered in Mexico and specifically the ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

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  The time is centuries into the future and all the worlds of the universe are part of the Hegemony.  That is, except for some outriders suc...
Friday, March 28, 2025

What Happened To The McCrays? by Tracey Lange

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  When Kyle McCray finally checks his voicemail, he learns that his father has had a serious stroke two days ago.  Kyle left Potsdam, his ho...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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  Salo and Johanna Oppenheimer are living a life of wealth as they start their marriage.  Salo comes from a wealthy family that donates Old ...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See

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  Tan Yunxian loses her mother at a young age when her bound feet become infected.  Tan is sent to be raised by her father's parents as ...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Little Threats by Emily Schultz

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  Kennedy Wynn is being released from prison.  Now thirty-one, she has been there since she was seventeen, convicted of killing her best fri...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rupi Thorpe

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  Adulting hasn't turned out like Margo expected.  When her English professor wanted to start an affair, she wasn't sure how to say ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Pro Bono by Thomas Perry

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  Charlie Warren is an attorney but it wasn't an easy road getting there.  Charlie's father died when he was young and his mother re...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Lazy Bones by Mark Billingham

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  Things are always changing with Tom Thorne's Major Crimes team.  There is a new female detective and transfer Andy Stone is there, at ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

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 Isobel Gamble is a Scottish immigrant who comes to the United States, specifically Salem, Massachusetts, in the early 1800's.  She is a...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Bringer Of Dust by J.M. Miro

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  This is the second novel in the Talents trilogy.  At the end of the first novel, the Talents Institute was in flames, many of the children...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Assembly by Natasha Brown

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  We never learn the name of the narrator of this novel, but we know a lot about her and her life.  She is a black British woman, the daught...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Kill All The Judges by William Deverell

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  Arthur Beauchamp's retirement isn't going as he thought it would.  His grandson is visiting for the summer and he likes that.  But...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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 Vic McQueen has a secret.  When she is on her bike and riding as fast as she can, a bridge appears and when she crosses it, on the other si...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

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  There's a place where disgraced spies go.  It's called Slough House and it's ruled by Jackson Lamb, a former top spy.  If you...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham

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  Tom Thorne has a new member on his team now that the crime divisions have been reorganized.  Sarah McEnvoy is new to the team and the area...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

All Fours by Miranda July

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 When a female artist receives an unexpected payment of twenty thousand dollars, she decides to go to New York for a week with her friends. ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

1414 Degrees by Paul Bradley Carr

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  Lou McCarthy is a journalist in San Francisco, her beat business, technology and the Silicon Valley.  She is about to break a huge story a...
Monday, March 3, 2025

White Dog Fell From The Sky by Eleanor Morse

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  Oscar Muthethe had planned to be a doctor and was in medical school in South Africa.  But when he witnessed a crime by the South African p...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning

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  When the Pelletier family comes to Moonstone, Colorado, it is with high hopes.  They have come so Jack, the father, can work in the marble...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber

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  Most people are familiar with the book The Velveteen Rabbit.  This is the story of Margery Williams, the author, and of her daughter Pamel...
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021 Edited by Alafair Burke

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  These twenty stories were chosen as the best mystery short stories of 2021 and edited by Alafair Burke.  Some of the authors are well know...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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  This lengthy novel (over 1100 pages) is, at its core, a love story.  Aomame and Tengo attended the same school twenty years ago.  They sha...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

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  Palm Beach is in full swing, with the President in the Winter White House and balls and soirees to attend every night.  But when one of th...
Friday, February 21, 2025

An Irish Bookshop Murder by Lucy Connelly

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  Twins Mercy and Lizzie McCarthy have led separate lives as adults.  Lizzie has lived in Texas growing and running a lavender farm.  Mercy ...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Who Killed Jane Stanford by Richard White

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  Leland Stanford made his fortune in the railroad industry.  He and his wife, Jane, had one child, a son named Leland Jr.  He was the focus...