Patrika Salmon
Louisa and the Crystal Gazer
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It has become quite fashionable and profitable in the American writing world for an author to take a well-known person and turn him ...Read Review
Saving the World
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This book is composed of several layers, like a torte. In present-day America we have Alma, turning fifty, depressed and lost; we ...Read Review
The Boys of San Joaquin
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Small-town California in 1951 is the setting for this young adult novel. Written with a strong eye to the “get-the-boys-reading” movement, hero Paulo ...Read Review
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
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This novel is set in South Carolina, America’s Deep South, and is written with Southern dialogue and idioms. Bonnie Wilder narrates ...Read Review
Honor Killing : Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow’s Spectacular Last Case
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Don’t let the racy title fool you; this is not a sensational rehash of the 1930s Hawaiian rape trial. It is ...Read Review
Water for Elephants
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“’Gritty” is the word on the cover, but “nasty,” perhaps, is nearer the mark. Jacob Jankowski knew some nasty characters back in 1931. ...Read Review
The Last Pleasure Garden
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The Last Pleasure Garden of the book’s title is Cremorne Gardens, a Victorian version of the notorious Vauxhall Gardens of Regency ...Read Review
