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A Thousand Splendid Suns

This is a very nearly perfect story in its encapsulation of a country's history through the lives of two very believable women.

House of Wolves

I feel compelled, before I sleep, to introduce folks who may not know Robert McDiarmid to his 2007 novel House of Wolves.

Letter to My Mother (translated)

Edith Bruck. Letter to my Mother I(Lettera alla Madre) Translated by Brenda Webster with Gabrielle Romani. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2006 ...

American Quaker War Tax Resistance: from the 17th through the 19th centuries

“David Gross has created a marvelous historical compilation of 167 intelligent and intense writings on the challenging question of whether people of conscience should pay for war.”

Ghost Medicine (Fall 2008)

My librarian knows someone from the publishing company so she got us a few copies before it came out so we could review it for them. It was one of...

The Whitest Wall - Book One Bootleg Brothers

Kulp captures the chaotic turmoil of culturally-muddled miscommunication and FAS brain fog of lost-boy Kevin, a 21-year-old going-on-ten jailed for murder, seemingly by his own matter-of-fact confessi

The Fortune Catcher

What happens when life as you've come to know becomes illegal, immoral, a reason for your death?

dear mommy fifteen years later

This was a really good read…once I picked up the book, I couldn’t put it down.

The Quickie (co-written with Michael Ledwidge)

Great.....kept you guessing until almost the end. Thought the hubby was up to something other than the initial "hotel" sighting in early chapter. ...

Esther Stories

It’s interesting how you come to love a book--from the moment you hear about it or pluck it from a shelf, purchase it, and add it to the pile of...