Shaye Areheart
The Bells
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When I look at my copy of The Bells sitting in front of me, I cannot believe it lies there immobile and lifeless. ...Read Review
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
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The first daughter of every generation of Grove women is named Bezellia, after the family’s courageous and iconoclastic matriarch, and teenage Bezellia ...Read Review
Walking to Gatlinburg
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Part tall tale, part historical fiction, this book opens in northern Vermont in 1864 when young abolitionist Morgan Kinneson neglects his duty to runaway ...Read Review
True Confections
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In 1975, Alice Tatnall, a convicted felon and local pariah at age eighteen thanks to her having accidentally burned down a classmate’s house, ...Read Review
Holding My Breath
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Beth Levy’s story of growing up starts out in a most unusual fashion. She tells us about her parents’ wedding day: where ...Read Review
Skeletons at the Feast
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Once in a while a novel comes along that crawls into your soul from the first page and won’t let go, even ...Read Review
The Kingdom of Bones
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Tom Sayers, a former boxer and a member of a British theater troupe, is accused of the serial murders of several children in ...Read Review
Cotton Song
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Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road on her way ...Read Review
Brothers
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This elegantly written and gripping book provides stunning insight into the China of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. If your knowledge of Communist ...Read Review
An Imperfect Lens
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In 1883 an epidemic of cholera struck Alexandria, Egypt. Several scientists who work in Louis Pasteur’s laboratory in Paris arrive quickly on the ...Read Review