Fiction

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How many wonder what their life would be like if they chose a different path? This is the crux of Ellen Meister’s riveting novel, The Other Life.

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Written in the first person, Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Wright features Katie Bennett telling the reader how her family has moved to a town in Wisconsin after her dad accepted a new job.

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The structure of Born Under a Lucky Moon is determined by Jeannie Thompson, the heroine, who goes back and forth relating the events of her life during two years, 1986 and 2006, and gives

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“A sad tale’s best for winter.”
The Winter’s Tale (II.i.25), by William Shakespeare

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If Specters were as good as its opening line “The valley was full of ghosts” it could have been intriguing, but it is not.

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Language is magic. It allows us to communicate the intangible as well as the concrete; to relate history, invent story, and blend both into the sometimes maddening mix called legend.

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How would a five-year-old boy experience the birth of Jesus?

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Promise Me, by Christmas mega-author, Richard Paul Evans (The Christmas Box, The Christmas List) is one of those sentimental stories that a reader either devours or detests.

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Literary fiction concerns itself with extraordinary people in ordinary situations, says Stephen King in the Afterword of his new book.

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The novels of Ward Just have frequently divided a readership uncertain of where to place him in the spectrum of contemporary American fiction.

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Alas, the promise of award-winning novelist, editor and publisher Carol Edgarian’s new novel, Three Stage of Amazement, is not realized, despite the success of her first fiction book,

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The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s is a very detailed examination of the transformation of the Canadian Jewish community during a tumult

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International war correspondent Dinah Davis faces many horrors in her career, but when she comes face to face with a terrifyingly tragic event, she finds herself overwhelmed.

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Marvel Creek, in East Texas in the early 1930s, might be any small town in the South—rural bottomland bordered by the muddy Sabine River.

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“Phineas and Ferb” is a popular animated children’s series on the Disney Channel.

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American Edgar A. Poe may have “invented” the detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and its sequels, but it was mainly a British form into the 1930s.

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The Cosmopolitans, Nadia Kalman’s smart, funny, wise, and entertaining debut novel explores the relationships and dynamics of a contemporary Russian-Jewish immigrant family from the former

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If Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries reads like an homage to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, his posthumously published The Petting Zoo finds the author paying tribute to

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Faced with a book titled The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, whose cover is filled with retro-horror line drawings, the reader is daunted.

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Though readers might be more familiar with her New York Times bestselling House of Night novels, P. C.

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Louis Armstrong was (and still is) a popular figure in 20th century American jazz.

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Royalty is common fare for historical fiction, but the lives of the saints are usually not.

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Frequently, in reference to short fiction, “the well-crafted story” can be a sort of damning praise.

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Cliff, a former Michigan English teacher turned farmer finds himself in a midlife crisis when his wife suddenly leaves home for another man.

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