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Rena Montford

Finally Broken

What an awesome story of Rena's life and hardships and how she finally found her way through multiple marriages, addiction to alcohol and pills, child molestation and spousal abuse to...
Maggie Bishop

Perfect for Framing

Jemma Chase and Detective Tucker return for another suspense-filled escapade in Perfect for Framing, the latest addition to Maggie Bishop’s acclaimed Appalachian Adventure series.
Scott Mittelsteadt

Love, Lies, and Murder

I've read a couple of King's books and I think I like this one the best. Its obvious (at least to a lay person like myself) that King put a...
Delirious Girl

America America: A Novel

I just completed "America, America" by Ethan Canin. Bump elbows with him here: It left me stunned and gasping for more. ...
Irma Fritz

IRRETRIEVABLY BROKEN

Some years ago, after Michael Ondaatje had written "The English Patient," I finagled an invitation to a private reading held by the Canadian Consulate for an exclusive group of business...
Julia Stein

Bombardiers

by Julia Stein
Harriet Chessman

When We Get Home

I am a great admirer of Maud Carol Markson's fiction, and this is the novel I fell in love with first.
Virginia Davids

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I found this novel to be profoundly sad but at the same time I am sure this is based on incidents and events that have happened and are still happening,...
Charlene  Leatherman

Prophecy of Vithan

When Morgan’s father sold her into slavery, she never expected that she would end up in the household of a royal family from a different planet, assigned to help train...
Jennifer Massoni

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack

At the risk of absolutely never being nearly an eighth as funny as Neal Pollack is in this anthology, I'll say it straight: Read this book!