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Category Archives: General Fiction
Review: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Random House (June 26, 2012) ISBN-10: 0812992970 Source: Publisher The day appeared to be normal to Julia in the California suburb where she lived with her parents. At eleven years old, Julia is dealing with the … Continue reading
Review: Overseas by Beatriz Williams
Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 0399157646 Source: Publisher (via Netgalley) Kate Wilson is a twenty-something Wall Street analyst, trying to make a name for herself. At an important client meeting, she’s banished to her cubicle, expected to sit … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Putnam, Review, Romance
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Review: The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Unbridled Books (May 1, 2012) ISBN-10: 1609530799 Source: Publisher Gavin Sasaki is a young journalist working in New York City. The economic decline has an adverse effect on the print publishing industry and in an attempt … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Review, Unbridled Books
Tagged Florida, housing decline, jazz music
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Review: Losing Clementine by Ashley Ream
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (March 6, 2012) ISBN-10: 006209363 Source: Publisher In thirty days, Clementine Pritchard’s life will come to an end, in suicide. She flushes away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions and decides … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Review, William Morrow, Women's Fiction
Tagged depression, suicide
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Review: Night Swim by Jessica Keener
Paperback: 284 pages Publisher: Fiction Studio Books (January 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 1936558262 Source: Publisher Sarah Kunitz, sixteen years old, lives in a suburb of Boston in the 1970s. To those outside her home she has the perfect life. Her parents … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction Studio Books, General Fiction, Review
Tagged 1970s, Boston, coming-of-age
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Review: What Happened to Hannah by Mary Kay McComas
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 006208478X Source: Publisher Twenty years ago, Hannah ran away from her home in a rural Virginia town in order to protect herself. She has a new life … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Review, William Morrow, Women's Fiction
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Review: First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty
Hardcover:304 pages Publisher:Harper (January 17, 2012) ISBN-10: 0066210623 Source: Publisher Evvie and Ben married relatively young after a pretty idealistic romance. They traveled the country, sleeping under the stars. Life seemed so much simpler then. Things have changed over the … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Harper Books, Review
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Review: More than Words Can Say by Robert Barclay
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 20, 2011) ISBN-10: 0062041193 Source: Publisher When Chelsea’s grandmother passed away she was devastated. She was incredibly close to Gran and can’t seem to fathom how she and her mother are going to … Continue reading
Review: The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
Paperback:320 pages Publisher:Plume; 1 edition (December 27, 2011) ISBN-10: 0452297672 Source: Publisher The summer of 1942, young Anne Calloway sets off to the Pacific island of Bora-Bora to serve as a nurse for the Army Nurse Corps. She’s engaged to … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Penguin, Plume, Review, Women's Fiction
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