When I saw the title, I knew I wanted to read Andrea Simon’s book, Did You Have the Life You Wanted? How would people answer? What would work in their lives and […]
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Author: Andrea Simon
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Fiction
Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak
Author: Leslie R. Schover
Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak is a WWII story that covers a different ‘front’—a little-known group of technical/electronic intellectuals who gave up much to stop Hitler. They were part […]
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Angels at the Gate
Author: Sheri Joseph
Since its publication in 1992, The Secret History by Donna Tartt has probably become the template for the genre of “novels about a group of privileged students at an elite […]
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Becoming Sarah
Author: Diane Botnick
Many people associate the name Auschwitz with death and despair. But life also occurred at the place of horror. Diane Botnick based her novel on one of the few babies […]
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That Which Binds Us
Author: Cathy Rigg
Clearly, Cathy Rigg loves the rugged Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia where her family ties go back seven generations. The four narrators of this beautifully written Civil War-era novel—Rigg’s debut—feel […]
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Pennsylvania Love Song
Author: Nancy Hayes Kilgore
During the Thanksgiving season of 1955, this engaging story of three generations of women opens in a prologue with Nancy, the book’s author, eight years old, riding in the back […]
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