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by Barbara Hodge
Dutch Girl / Audrey Hepburn and World War II / Robert Matzen / GoodKnight Books / Hardcover $27.95 (400pp) / 978-1-73227-353-5 / Audrey Hepburn, with her fresh innocence, gamine ways, intense dark eyes, and boyish figure, created...
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“My abuela drives a big truck,” says Quinito, a small boy, as he talks about the work of his grandmother and other relatives and neighbors. Quinito also introduces his mother, a carpenter; his uncle, a dance teacher; and a neighbor...
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The swamps that encircle Sebastian, Florida, are brackish incubators where abandoned pets grow into tropical predators, threatening the well-lit monotony of manicured lawns and fenced-in yards. But the paved streets and gated...
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by Barbara Hodge
Off Target / Eve Smith / Orenda Books / Softcover $15.95 (300pp) / 978-1-914585-02-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / One mistake shakes the foundations of a family in Eve Smith’s domestic thriller Off Target. In a society...
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by Meg Nola
Based on the books we choose to feature in this weekly newsletter, you might guess that we’re quite open to alternative, out of the mainstream ideas about the natural and spiritual worlds, science and health. And it’s true, though...
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by Thomas Bevier
These eight books chart a course through a confusion of cultures, from Korea to Denmark, the Canadian Rockies to Prague. For places in between, there is an anthology of travel writing by the finest of contemporary writers, offering...
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by Shawn Syms
The dry, expository style accentuates the sexual frankness in these elegant novellas and stories. Adventurous readers of contemporary European literature may appreciate "The Fata Morgana Books", by Jonathan Littell, translated from...
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by Peggy Beck
“Far, far away across the plains and over the mountains in a cold, dark country, Anna was born.” Mother, Father, and sister Wanda “almost forgot the war that had driven them so far from home.” So begins Janice Kulyk Keefer’s...
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