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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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