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Living Dead Girl, by Elizabeth Scott Simon Pulse – September 9, 2009 – Paperback – 170 pages Source: Personal Collection This book is a stunner. I am not even sure what to begin saying about it except that I started reading it, and couldn’t tear myself away. The only reason that I didn’t finish this [...]
Rowan the Strange, by Julie Hearn Oxford University Press – April 2010– Hardcover – 352 pages Source: Purchased for my personal collection Rowan the Strange is set in 1939, just on the eve of England entering the fighting in World War II. Everyday brings fear of bombs and warfare and all live on the edge- [...]
The Summer of Skinny Dipping, by Amanda Howells Sourcebooks Fire – June 1, 2010 – Hardcover – 304 pages Source: Review copy sent by the publisher 16-year-old Mia Gordon has been just been dumped by her boyfriend Jake. After such a shock to the system, she is especially looking forward to reconnecting with her cousin [...]
For this edition of The Classics Circuit I re-read a book that creeped me out as a child and didn’t fail to do so again in my reading of it as an adult. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie has a special way of getting under my skin and making me look over [...]
Ally Ryan’s life was turned upside down when her family had to flee Orchard Hill in disgrace after her father, a wealthy and successful hedge fund manager, lost most of the money of the town’s richest families in a financial scheme gone awry. Her father further devastates the family by abandoning them shortly after they [...]
Quinn O’Malley is supposed to be happy. She has just said yes to a marriage proposal from a wonderful man, is a successful New York attorney on the fast track with an entire career and lush life ahead of her, but despite all of these things she is still plagued by nightmares which seem to [...]
Emmy has just lost her husband and is at loose ends trying to figure out what she plans to do with the rest of her life. Her mother, Paige, realizes the trouble that Emmy is in and recommends that she leave town, start over somewhere else. Though their relationship has always been fraught with tension, [...]
Lily and Tom have been happily if uneventfully married for years. They both have successful teaching careers in Vermont, have raised two sons, and are looking forward to retirement in five years. Their son is struggling within his marriage and doubtful that he will be able to share the same relationship that his parents have [...]
Bess Southerns can remember a time when the old religion was practiced, when she was young and beautiful, food was more plentiful and everyone was just a little bit more prosperous. As an older woman she has seen England torn between Catholicism’s practices and rituals of the old, and the new and more austere Protestant [...]
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who escaped an arduous life picking cotton – on the same farmland that her family worked as slaves – to move to Baltimore, Maryland. Though she had a troubled marriage to her first cousin, David Lacks, [...]
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