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Many girls grow up dreaming of marriage and a family and most times their dreams come true.

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“if you like your novels dark and stormy, this one is a winner.”

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Wonderment, carelessness, and suspense.

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The author crafts passages of agonizing psychological self-torment with a master's ear for the perfect phrase.”

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The simple sentences and unspoken words of My Name Is Lucy Barton are deceptive.

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“The heart wants someone to take away the fear. The heart wants answers even if they’re made up.”

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Sophia by Michael Bible is a beautiful contemporary novella that reads like a series of sequential prose poetry vignettes interspersed with visions of saints, real and fake, by the scoundr

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Ask Him Why is a multi-layered narrative with a central theme about the consequences of rushing to judgement without trying to understand the other side by first asking, “Why?” 

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“What meaning does your finite existence have in the infinite world?”

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Anne Perry’s Christmas novels are comfort food for the reader who wants a short mystery novel with a holiday theme.

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“Keep an open mind and an open heart. It gets bad sometimes, but things will work out.”

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Among the many different cultural subsets in New York City, there is a group of food elitists.

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Front Yard is a garden-variety slapstick comedy with elements of farce, witchcraft, and fairies.

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"It shows what happens when twentysomethings grow up."

The Clasp is definitely several rungs above the typical twentysomethings-with-clever-quips debut.

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There is nothing little about this book including its emotional impact.

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Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories is a collection of 15 short fiction stories (11 of which have never been published), written by Elmore Leonard at the beginning of

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Small towns are known for their residents being privy to everyone's business, and this is especially true in this novel set in Nantucket.

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has,” said Margaret Meade, the great anthropologist. 

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Izabella Rae Haywood, teenage heroine of What the Waves Know, has lost her words. She has not spoken in eight years, ever since her father disappeared on her sixth birthday.

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“. . . the writing and storytelling compelled the suspension of disbelief and acceptance of the unimaginable.

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The Hilltop is recommended to all readers who enjoy a good story grounded in current events.”

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“The ‘everyone’ characters in the book help the central characters weather their personal storms, making the novel heartwarming and inspiring. . .

Alice Simpson’s debut novel promises to be an interesting read [but] Ballroom doesn’t quite deliver on the promise.”

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Kamm calls on his vast experience with the L.A. County Fire Department . . . to insert the reader into the midst of all the action. . . .

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F cuts to the chase with impatience and too rapidly presents the solution to its own enigma. Haste makes waste, as the saying goes. True in life, true in literature.”

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