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Nina-Marie Gardner’s debut novel is a riveting read. Mary Cartwright has just finished her graduate studies and taken a position helping students re-write their college essays to improve their chances for admission into top universities. Mary is in a very fragile place after the death of her father, distance in her relationship with her mother, [...]
The First Husband, by Laura Dave thoroughly and somewhat humorously explores factors of choosing a partner, the longevity of relationships and how the quirks of upbringing and personality can sustain or doom romance. Annie Adams has settled into a life that she expects to enjoy. She has a satisfying career as a travel journalist, a [...]
His Other Wife by Deborah Bedford chronicles the interior life of Hilary Wynn, a divorced mother with a teenaged son, Seth, on the brink of graduating high school and heading to college. Hilary just has to get through the weekend of graduation, complete with a visit from ex-in laws, ex-husband and new wife Pam, before [...]
In The Uncoupling, by Meg Wolitzer, a spell slowly works its cold magic on the women of Stellar Heights, New Jersey, causing them to withhold sex and withdraw from their relationships shortly after a new drama teacher arrives and begins to stage a high school production of Lysistrata (the Aristophanes play detailing a sex strike [...]
It is 1980 and Jane, who has just graduated head of her Harvard class, is given the opportunity to meet with a wealthy writer (twenty plus years older than she) for career advice. After the two hit it off, Jane leaves her boyfriend in Vermont and moves to New York to pursue a relationship with [...]
A Geography of Secrets, by Frederick Reuss is a thought-provoking novel exploring a world that most of us know is in existence, but to which we give little thought. An unnamed narrator, a mapmaker whose father worked in foreign service. A careless comment heard at his father’s funeral leads him on a search for clues [...]
Jay Cassio and Dan Del Colliano have been friends since they were six years old. Sticking together through family upheaval and hardships, each was always a presence in the other’s life. They even occasionally worked together; Dan as a private investigator and Jay as an attorney with his own small practice. When the wife of [...]
Cara Lange has never found high school easy. She moves abruptly, just in time for her freshman year, but never manages to carve out a niche for herself. Plus, she misses her best friend Zoe, with whom she did everything. The latest run- in with kids at school has them making fun of a choking incident [...]
Kiley is seriously down on her luck as Thanksgiving approaches. Her boyfriend decides that he is in love and proceeds to dump her at Halloween to start a relationship with her younger sister, and she is lately unemployed. On an excursion with friends designed to provide some cheer, she spots a snow globe whose history [...]
I first heard about Laura Lippman when Trish from Hey Lady read What The Dead Know, and loved it so much that she started the Laura Lippman Reading Challenge. Since then I have read countless reviews on book blogs full of veritable plaudits on Lippman’s work. I love a good mystery and I am always [...]
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