Book Review
Full Beaver Moon
by Karen Rigby
A hero with a troubled past journeys into the deep South in search of understanding in the rich historical novel "Full Beaver Moon". In Peter Skinner’s spellbinding literary novel "Full Beaver Moon", a biracial teenager plans his...
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The Climate Diaries
by Karen Rigby
Gifted children gather, preparing to fight together against climate change, in the exciting novel "The Climate Diaries". In Aaron Arsenault’s entertaining adventure novel "The Climate Diaries", a capable boy joins a secretive group to...
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As the Sparrow Flies
by Karen Rigby
In Chad Corrie’s dystopian novel "As the Sparrow Flies", people fight extinction in the face of a religious war. Elliott is a squire who aspires to knighthood. He hopes to join an army that believes Pyre is the main deity. He thinks...
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The Lamplighter
by Karen Rigby
A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his...
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The Song of Sourwood Mountain
by Karen Rigby
A woman has another chance for love in Ann H. Gabhart’s nostalgic romance novel "The Song of Sourwood Mountain". In 1910, Mira is a schoolteacher. She was once in love with a classmate, but he died of tuberculosis. Resigned to being...
Book Review
In the Garden Behind the Moon
by Karen Rigby
Alexandra A. Chan is an archaeologist, and her eloquent, inventive memoir "In the Garden Behind the Moon" chronicles her search through her family’s history, which woke her to new ways of seeing. The book begins with a riveting account...
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How Would You Like Your Mammoth?
by Karen Rigby
Pithy and enchanting, Uta Seeburg’s "How Would You Like Your Mammoth?" covers the advent of cookery in prehistoric and ancient civilizations, showing how food directs people and illuminates societies. Seeburg asserts that food is a...
Book Review
Little Ships
by Karen Rigby
Grandmothers’ lives change when they gather to care for their grieving family members in the moving novel "Little Ships". Grief has an illuminating effect in Sandra Scofield’s affecting multigenerational novel "Little Ships". After...