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This Month's Reviews Every month, Dennis and Darlene post reviews of some of the books that they've recently enjoyed as well as reviews from nationwide critics and book clubs. Check back regularly. We're sure you'll find something to your liking. Return to Home Page |
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| A CALL FROM JERSEY
by P.F. Kluge ------- An invitation to a high school reunion brings a restless travel writer back to New Jersey to confront a father he abandoned, friends he forgot, and a history he never knew. “Kluge knows his characters from the inside and his comic, loving portrayals stand with the best of Russo and Irving."--Askold Melnyczuk, author of Ambassador of the Dead and The House of Widows. |
| THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF
THE POETS
by Jess Walter ------- From National Book Award-finalist Jess Walter comes a hysterically funny novel of one man’s attempt to save his family from economic disaster by directing his entrepreneurial leanings toward a life of petty crime. “The ultimate something for everyone - don’t skip - must read.”--Sara Nelson, The Daily Beas |
| THE LACUNA
by Barbara Kingsolver ------- Acclaimed bestseller The Lacuna is an epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover, and a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. “Breathtaking . . . dazzling . . . Kingsolver gives voice to truths whose teller could express them only in silence.”--New York Times Book Review |
| LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN
by Joyce Carol Oates ------- Joyce Carol Oates, a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and author of some of the most enduring fiction, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and the New York Times- bestseller The Falls has “. . . created a fictional universe to stand beside Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or Cheever’s Shady Hill. . . . Oates [is] our closest contemporary analogue to Hawthorne: lyrical, moral, unforgiving.”--Washington Post |
| THE LOST ART OF GRATITUDE
by Alexander McCall Smith ------ In the sensational sixth installment in the bestselling chronicles, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie is taken into the confidences of an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, but she wonders whether Minty can be trusted, or if she is the perpetrator of a massive financial fraud. |
| VANISHING AND OTHER STORIES
by Deborah Willis ------ A finalist for Canada's Governor General’s Awards, this debut short story collection explores emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave and are left, and whether it’s ever possible to move on. “The emotional range and depth of these stories, the clarity and deftness is astonishing.”--Alice Munro, author of Too Much Happiness, The Love of a Good Woman, and The View from Castle Rock |
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