Fiction

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Is Scottish writer Kate Atkinson brilliant or quirky or both?

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A Summer Without Dawn is an historical fiction novel that describes one of humanity’s darkest times, where cultural values are undermined, blood lines are swiftly severed, and the value of

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These days there are so many books about women who fall in love with vampires, but few are as interesting as A Discovery of Witches.

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Ari Selkirk has always stood out with her long, silvery white hair and strange teal eyes; it’s difficult not to notice her.

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"Warning: J. D. Robb’s In Death novels are highly addictive."

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Winner of the Per Olov Enquist Prize, Sweden’s highest literary honor, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Montecore is the story of Abbas, a Tunisian immigrant who falls in love with a politically-min

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". . . a good, rollicking and creepy tale . . ."

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Ever since the sixth grade, Dale Sampson has loved the idea of being in love—even if it means being used by the prettiest girls in school.

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Young women of the Victorian era were expected to be pristine, unblemished, and pure. But how did they really behave? Were calculated means employed to achieve desired marital ends?

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Over 200 years ago, the residents of Paris spent 12 hard-earned sous to walk through a little wax museum on the Boulevard du Temple, in order to be titillated by the well-molded figure of the court

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Every now and then you come across a writer and wonder—while reading his or her latest tome—how on earth you haven’t read their books before.

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This first book in a planned series of children’s books targets a very precise audience. The Hospital Critterz series was created for ill and hospitalized children and their families.

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Imagine a village where no birds scatter to the pines as people pass, where no dogs wait panting by the door, no chickens peck for grain in the garden, no fish sparkle in the river.

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The current recession sets the backdrop for Where I Belong, Gwendolyn Heasley’s debut novel.

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I admit that this review was a difficult one for me to write. How do you comment on a graphic novel adaption of an Ayn Rand book without talking about Ayn Rand herself?

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“A story is like a dance. It takes at least two people to make it come to life, the one who does the telling and the one who does the listening.”

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Don’t let the diminutive size of Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays & Observations fool you—it’s filled with big laughs, emotions, angst and enough four-letter words to get Kargman ki

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Meghan Chase is a somewhat human girl who once lived a somewhat normal life.

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Hummingbirds: Facts and Folklore from the Americas lives up to the promise of its title.

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What’s for Dinner? Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World is far more than a collection of 29 delightful and sometimes surprising poems for children.

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Told in blank verse, this story of the early pirates touches on a universal theme of children growing up without adequate adult role models.

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Sometimes the scope of human tragedy is too large to comprehend. The mind grasps for alternate explanations in order to come to terms with staggering loss.

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This first novel by John Micaud is certainly packed with family and their place and life details.

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Dogtag Summer brings to life a piece of American history so recent and so raw that most kids won’t get to study it history class, and it does so in a way that is both emotionally wrenching

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