Book Review
Delphic Oracle, USA
by Karen Rigby
In the delightful multigenerational novel "Delphic Oracle, USA", a town is put on the map by renegades in the 1920s and flourishes for their descendants. Checkered portraits of the residents of a Nebraska town fill Steven Mayfield’s...
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Orchid Blooming
by Karen Rigby
Two wounded people learn to accommodate each other in "Orchid Blooming", a romance novel about building love and trust despite one’s past traumas. A tragedy-stricken woman’s search for her mother’s heritage permeates Carol Van Den...
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This Is Eden?
by Karen Rigby
This is Eden? is a careful historical novel that follows a pioneering family woman along her new adventure. A Christian family from Chicago moves to rural Wisconsin in Nancy Radcliffe’s brisk historical novel This is Eden?, a story...
Book Review
California Fever
by Karen Rigby
"California Fever" is a classic, surfer-set whodunit in which all is revealed and made well. John J. Jacobson’s funny, cozy mystery novel "California Fever" features surf culture and capers as a man gets entangled with oddballs during...
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Stone Heart
by Karen Rigby
In the novel "Stone Heart", former lovers reunite but face painful fallout. In Susan K. Hamilton’s novel "Stone Heart", a rock star regrets leaving her first love behind. Lauren, the lead singer of the Kingmakers, returns to New York...
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Run with the Hare, Hunt with the Hound
by Karen Rigby
In Paul M. Duffy’s intricate historical novel "Run with the Hare, Hunt with the Hound", a medieval slave interrogates his loyalties during the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. Alberic, the son of an Anglo-Norman, spies a chance to...
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Ghosts in a Photograph
by Karen Rigby
In her erudite family memoir "Ghosts in a Photograph", Myrna Kostash searches for her Western Ukrainian grandparents’ histories in Alberta, Canada. Tracing her family back to Tulova in Galicia (now part of Ukraine) in the 1900s through...
Book Review
The Opera Sisters
by Karen Rigby
Driven by their convictions and their passion for music, two English sisters provide aid to German Jewish families in Marianne Monson’s kaleidoscopic historical novel "The Opera Sisters". In the 1930s, Ida and Louise are typists in...