Sunday, February 1, 2026

To The Bright Edge Of The World by Eowyn Ivey

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  This novel is told in both modern times and in the late 1800's.  In 1885, Colonel Allen Forester leads an expedition into Alaska to op...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

The Idaho Four by James Patterson and Vicky Ward

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 Kaylee Goncalves.  Madison Mogen.  Xana Kernodle.  Ethan Chapin.  These four young people were students at the University of Idaho and will...
Friday, January 30, 2026

The Knight And The Moth by Rachel Gillig

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  Sybil Denning is a Diviner, living in the Cathedral and predicting the future for those who came and paid.  She was found as an orphan and...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

The Wide Net by Eudora Welty

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  These eight stories from Eudora Welty give readers a glimpse into life in the South, specifically Mississippi during the 1900's.  Welt...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

An Inquiry Into Life And Death by Simone St. James

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  The time is shortly after World War II, and Jillian Leigh is one of the few women at Oxford.  She is determined to graduate and is not ple...
Monday, January 26, 2026

The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey

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  In 1491, the village of Oakham is guided by the local priest, John Reve.  There are not many houses or people and the village is cut off b...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Theo Of Golden by Allen Levi

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  An older man moves to a small town in the South named Golden.  It is on a river which reminds Theo of his hometown long ago.  He spends hi...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Room by Emma Donoghue

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  Ma has been in Room for seven years, taken off the street one day while walking home by Old Nick and imprisoned.  Jack has just turned fiv...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Bruno, Chief Of Police by Martin Walker

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  Bruno is the Chief of Police in a small town in the South of France.  It is an undemanding job which suits Bruno fine after his time in th...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The Straw Men by Michael Marshall

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  Two men walk into a fast food restaurant and start firing.  A man goes to his childhood home in Montana to bury his parents who were kille...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Beautiful Children by Charles Bock

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  Charles Bock grew up in Las Vegas and he uses that city for his novel's setting.  We meet a variety of characters, each with dreams th...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Bridegroom by Ha Jin

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  This collection of twelve stories portray life in modern China.  I had two favorites of this anthology.  In The Bridegroom, a factory supe...
Friday, January 16, 2026

After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss

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  Avery thinks she is nineteen although she couldn't say when her birthday was.  She has never been off the compound so she knows nothin...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

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  This was to be Emma's first away camp and she can't wait to go to Camp Nightingale for the summer, a camp set on the family land o...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Violeta by Isabel Allende

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  Born during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, this is the story of Violeta, the only daughter of a wealthy South American family.  It follows...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

People Of The Book by Geraldine Brooks

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  A Jewish holy document, the Sarajevo Haggadah, is found after the Bosnia war.  It was considered a miracle as the area had undergone Serbi...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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  Two men have been brutally murdered, bludgeoned and stabbed to death and the house set afire.  One is the owner of the house, Natan Ketils...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Number9Dream by David Mitchell

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  Eiji Miyake has had a difficult life.  He grew up on a small island in Japan, living with his mother and twin sister.  His father was neve...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Fathers edited by Andre Gerard

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 In this anthology about how children perceive their fathers, Andre Gerard has collected wonderful pieces by known authors and poets about t...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Unforgivable by Natalie Barelli

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  Laura has finally found a perfect life.  She is using her education and degree in art to manage an art galley and has a new show starting ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

From The Dead by Mark Billingham

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  When Tom Thorne hears that Alan and Donna Langford's daughter has gone missing, he remembers the family well as they came to his atten...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

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  Cyrus Shams is an Iranian immigrant, although he came to the United States as a baby so identifies with both his Middle Eastern and his Am...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera

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  When Lucy's best friend, Savannah, is killed after a party they attended, she is demolished.  Lucy was attacked as well and she has a ...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

Blue Lonesome by Bill Pronzini

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  Jim Messenger is an accountant in a big city.  He doesn't like his job which has no possibility of advancement and he hasn't dated...
Friday, January 2, 2026

The Song Of The Cell by Siddharta Mukherjee

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  In this nonfiction work, Mukherjee, a scientist and oncologist, takes the reader from the discovery of cells in the 1600s to the present. ...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Booksie's 2025 Wrapup

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  The end of another year and a new year to celebrate.  We had a great Christmas this year and got to see both kids, grandkids, in-laws and ...

Girls Without Tears by T. L. Finlay

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  Noa is living her best life in Miami.  She fled her small hometown after high school, tired of an environment where everyone knew everyone...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy

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  Frannie and Doris are sisters.  They have spent years of their adult life taking care of their father and now that he is gone, they need t...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

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 Patrick Ryan's novel follows two families in Ohio from World War II for several decades.  The Salts are Margaret and Felix.  He is serv...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

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  Hicks McTaggert changes himself to fit the prevailing environment.  In this case, that means Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1932.  McTaggert mad...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy

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 Most people know Arundhati Roy as a novelist and she has written beautiful books such as The God Of Small Things which won the Booker Prize...