Book Review
The Last Words of James Joyce
by Karen Rigby
James Broderick’s "The Last Words of James Joyce" mixes murder into an irreverent campus satire. This eccentric story is led by a former PhD student who moonlights as a pornographic script writer, and who believes that he’s found one...
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The Valet's Secret
by Karen Rigby
In Josi S. Kilpack’s ebullient Regency romance The Valet’s Secret, a classic case of mistaken identity inspires love between the heir to an earldom and a widow. Kenneth, disguised as his valet, runs into Rebecca, who dodges his...
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The Lady's Mine
by Karen Rigby
In Francine Rivers’s delightful novel The Lady’s Mine, an exiled Boston brahmin claims her uncle’s property in a “wild and woolly” mining town, flourishing against expectations. Kathryn, whose rift with her stepfather propelled...
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Counterfeit Love
by Karen Rigby
Former fiancées weigh the cost of reuniting with each other in Crystal Caudill’s invigorating "Counterfeit Love", a Gilded Age novel set in Cincinnati’s underworld. Broderick, a Secret Service agent, infiltrates a counterfeit ring...
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Sunrise
by Karen Rigby
In Susan May Warren’s novel about a steady, fated romance, "Sunrise", a prodigal son returns to the shadow of Denali to take up the mantle of a bush pilot, all while confronting memories of the woman he left behind. After his estranged...
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Darcy Lane
by Karen Rigby
In the novella "Darcy Lane", a gritty environment and harsh circumstances impact a girl into her troubled young adulthood. In James T. Graham’s young adult novella "Darcy Lane", a young Englishwoman recalls her childhood trauma. When...
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Train from Thompsonville
by Karen Rigby
"Train from Thompsonville" is a nostalgic historical novel in which a girl grows up in a vibrant factory town. In D. C. Moses’s historical novel "Train from Thompsonville" a Polish Catholic girl comes of age in a New York factory town....
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The Art of Traveling Strangers
by Karen Rigby
"The Art of Traveling Strangers" is a warm, empowering novel in which a woman recovers her sense of worth. Heartbreaks prompt an art history professor to work as a guide in Zoe Disigny’s quirky novel "The Art of Traveling Strangers",...