In 1974, disillusioned 34 year-old Polly works as a picture editor in the Illustrations Department for Encyclopedia Britannica. Her older, twice-divorced, live-in boyfriend is on an extended assignment in Saigon […]
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One of the reasons I read is to learn about other people’s experiences and perspectives; I particularly enjoy reading about other cultures and the histories that created them. We can’t […]
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Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Contemporary Fiction Award Author Barbara Linn Probst sees her Sarton Award-winning book, The Sound Between the Notes, as encouragement for readers to embrace everything they […]
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Winter’s Reckoning is a beautifully crafted southern gothic story that portrays a startling similarity to contemporary events. While so much has changed since 1917, the setting of this book, so […]
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The inequities of womanhood come across clear and strong in Cora’s Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown. And how timely for this book to come out now. It is no one’s […]
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Marcie Maxfield’s debut novel Em’s Awful Good Fortune is a hoot. The first sentence, “Sometimes I wish he would hit me,” quickly grabs my attention. Narrator Em’s wit describes the […]
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