Shaye Areheart

The Bells

By Richard Harvell - Published 2010

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Literary

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

By Susan Gregg Gilmore - Published 2010

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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

By Howard Frank Mosher - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

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

By Katharine Weber - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

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

By Sidura Ludwig - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

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

By Chris Bohjalian - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

Literary

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

By Stephen Gallagher - Published 2007

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

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

By Tom Bailey - Published 2006

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Literary

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

By Da Chen - Published 2006

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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

By Anne Roiphe - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

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