The Mighty Red, a welcome new chapter to an American story we may not know. The Mighty Red is a welcome new chapter to an American story we may not know, even if most of us can remember the music and most of the lyrics of a

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25.08.2025

Tahoe Speed ~ by Todd Borg | | Great pick for 2025

Stay cool this summer, read Todd Borgs latest McKenna Mystery, Tahoe Speed. Terminal Velocity snow skiing, a fast heat-breaking read.

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25.08.2025

Peace Is a Shy ThingPeace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien, And American Fantastica ~ by Alex Vernom,Alex Vernon | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

Peace Is a Shy Thing. Vernon's biography of Tim O'Brien is a bridge to O'Brien's last Vietnam novel. Two reviews.Tim O'Brien is a primary voice, memoir and fiction, of the Vietnam War. Vernon's biography is a welcome bridge from Vietnam to O'Brien's America

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29.07.2025

Reach Up, My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist ~ by Ginette DePreist | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

Reach Up, Ginette DePreist's memoir of her life with conductor James DePreist will forever enrich your next symphony experience.Reach Up, My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist gives the words "symphony conductor" new meaning. Reading this book will greatly enrich your next

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29.07.2025

Writing Journal, July 24, 2025 ~ by | This 'N That | Great pick for 2025

Writing Journal - July 24, 2025 If I'm not reading before my feet hit the floor in the morning, I must still be asleep.

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29.07.2025

Big Sky ~ by Kate Atkinson | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

Big Sky-Jackson Brodie is back. For those of you new to his engaging, sleuthing, welcome to the unique world of Kate Atkinson's favorite PI.

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24.10.2024

Tom Lake ~ by Ann Patchett | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Ann Patchett's Tom Lake gives us a novel with its deep roots in America's beloved Our Town.

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23.10.2024

Clap When You Land ~ by Elizabeth Acevedo | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Clap When You Land may be marketed for teens and young adults, but I'm here to tell you more mature readers, do not miss this remarkably moving novel by

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09.09.2024

Tahoe Rescue ~ by Todd Borg | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Owen McKenna is back in Tahoe Rescue, another Tahoe mystery to solve. Once again, Lake Tahoe and its environs highlight McKenna's sleuthing skills.

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25.06.2024

Parnassus on Wheels ~ by Christopher Morley | | Great pick for 2024

Christopher Morley's classic Parnassus on Wheels is as good a read today as when first published in 1917. And in some ways, given today's book world, it

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15.02.2024

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop ~ by Lewis Buzbee | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee's captivating memoir and history of the world of book from production to seller to customer.

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05.02.2024

Reading Journal 2023, The Art of Writing, Or Not ~ by | | Great pick for 2024

The Getaway Car, the 2nd essay of Ann Patchett's This is The Story of a Happy Marriage, may drive you to writing into the Art of Writing.

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04.02.2024

The God of Endings ~ by Jacqueline Holland | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Jacqueline Holland's debut novel "The God of Endings" reveals the loneliness of a life without end as an unwilling vampire.

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03.02.2024

~ by Jacqueline Holland | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Jacqueline Holland's debut novel "The God of Endings" reveals the loneliness of a life without end as an unwilling vampire.

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19.09.2023

Billy Blaster ~ by Laini Taylor & Jim Di Partolo | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Billy Blaster and the Robot Army From Outer Space, not only for the younger reader. Authors Taylor and Di Partolo will lift your spirits.

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05.09.2023

Remembering The Peasant Prince ~ by Alex Storozynski | | Great pick for 2023

One thing leading to another is the case when reading about an unearthed time capsule brings me back to Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

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16.08.2023

All The Stars in The Heavens ~ by Adriana Trigiani | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

All the Stars in the Heavens - the bio-novel of Loretta Young's life as only Adriana Trigiani could imagine. Hollywood at its best?

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15.08.2023

The Honey Jar ~ by Joan Schoettler | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

The Honey Jar - Joan Schoettler's captivating tale of a young boy's 1920 escape from his war-torn home in Armenia.

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03.07.2023

Facing The Mountain ~ by Daniel James Brown | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Daniel James Brown's "Facing the Mountain, is the rich telling of the plight faced by Japanese Americans during WWII.

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28.06.2023

Dreamers of the Day ~ by Mary Doria Russell | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Dreamers of the Day is Mary Doria Russell's novel that is as fresh if not fresher today than when first published in 2008.

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27.06.2023

The Midnight Library ~ by Matt Haig | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Matt Haig'd The Midnight Library describes the twenty-seven hours it takes Nora Seed to decide to live or to die.

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12.06.2023

Not Weakness ~ by Francesca Grossman | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Not Weakness, Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain Francesca Grossman's honest exploration of chronic pain and the women who experience it.

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02.06.2023

My Beloved World ~ by Sonia Sotomayor | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sotomayor brings her lived experience and her rigorous knowledge of law to My Beloved World.

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01.06.2023

The Little Sister ~ by Raymond Chandler | | Great pick for 2023

The Little Sister - a first Philip Marlowe novel bring this reviewer to an enthusiastic appreciation of Raymond Chandler.

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30.05.2023

Sisters in Arms ~ by Kaia Alderson | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Sisters in Arms - Kaia Alderson's introduction of the WWII WACS 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.

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22.01.2023

The Last Mona Lisa ~ by Jonathan Santlofer | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

The Last Mona Lisa, Jonathan Santlofer's retelling of the August 21, 1911, theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre is ingenious. Art theft, forgery, and Interpol, nothing is left out in this thriller.

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13.01.2023

My Beloved World ~ by Sonia Sotomayor | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Supreme Court Justice brings the breadth and depth of her lived experiences to her memoir, My Beloved World.

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05.01.2023

I Alone Can Fix It ~ by Carol Leonnig | | Great pick for 2022

I Alone Can Fix It, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker's investigative journalism of Trump's Catastrophic Final Year.

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05.01.2023

Africa, Amazing Africa, Country by Country ~ by Atinuke | | Great pick for 2022

Africa, Amazing Africa, Country by Country. Atinuke's amazing picture book introduces us to all the countries of Africa.

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03.01.2023

Anthill ~ by E. O. Wilson | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

The late Edwin O. Wilson's novel look at myrmecology along Florida's panhandle to Mobile, Alabama. Fiction and taxonomy.

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30.11.2022

Horse ~ by Geraldine Brooks | | Great pick for 2022

Horse - Once again, Geraldine Brooks uncovers little known parts of our American history. She moves us from 2019 back to the pre-Civil War south, and back

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30.11.2022

The Heron's Cry, sequel to The Long Call ~ by Ann Cleeves | | Great pick for 2022

The Heron's Cry, sequel to The Long Call. Cleeves' detective Venn has done it again in The Heron's Cry, the second Two Rivers mystery

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30.11.2022

The Last Days of Night ~ by Graham Moore | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

The Last Days of Night - Moore's novel illuminates the lawsuit between Edison and Westinghouse for the patent rights to the light bulb.

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30.11.2022

Eligible ~ by Curtis Sittenfeld | | Great pick for 2022

Sittenfeld's "Eligible" brings Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" up to the twenty-first century.

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30.11.2022

A Tale of Two Murders ~ by Heather Redmond | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

A Tale of Two Murders - Redmond's reimagining a young Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth as whodunnit sleuths.

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30.11.2022

The Girl You Left Behind ~ by Jojo Moyes | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

The Girl You Left Behind - Jojo Moyes' novel of the portrait of a French artist's wife and the war that intervened, separating by death and theft the

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Miracles and Wonders: The Historical Mystery of Jesus ~ by Elaine Pagels | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

The Mighty Red ~ by Louise Erdrich | | Great pick for 2025

Tahoe Speed ~ by Todd Borg | | Great pick for 2025

Peace Is a Shy ThingPeace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien, And American Fantastica ~ by Alex Vernom,Alex Vernon | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

Reach Up, My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist ~ by Ginette DePreist | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

Writing Journal, July 24, 2025 ~ by | This 'N That | Great pick for 2025

Big Sky ~ by Kate Atkinson | Reviews | Great pick for 2025

Tom Lake ~ by Ann Patchett | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Clap When You Land ~ by Elizabeth Acevedo | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Tahoe Rescue ~ by Todd Borg | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Parnassus on Wheels ~ by Christopher Morley | | Great pick for 2024

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop ~ by Lewis Buzbee | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Reading Journal 2023, The Art of Writing, Or Not ~ by | | Great pick for 2024

The God of Endings ~ by Jacqueline Holland | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

~ by Jacqueline Holland | Reviews | Great pick for 2024

Billy Blaster ~ by Laini Taylor & Jim Di Partolo | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Remembering The Peasant Prince ~ by Alex Storozynski | | Great pick for 2023

All The Stars in The Heavens ~ by Adriana Trigiani | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

The Honey Jar ~ by Joan Schoettler | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Facing The Mountain ~ by Daniel James Brown | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Dreamers of the Day ~ by Mary Doria Russell | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

The Midnight Library ~ by Matt Haig | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

Not Weakness ~ by Francesca Grossman | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

My Beloved World ~ by Sonia Sotomayor | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

The Little Sister ~ by Raymond Chandler | | Great pick for 2023

Sisters in Arms ~ by Kaia Alderson | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

The Last Mona Lisa ~ by Jonathan Santlofer | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

My Beloved World ~ by Sonia Sotomayor | Reviews | Great pick for 2023

I Alone Can Fix It ~ by Carol Leonnig | | Great pick for 2022

Africa, Amazing Africa, Country by Country ~ by Atinuke | | Great pick for 2022

Anthill ~ by E. O. Wilson | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

Horse ~ by Geraldine Brooks | | Great pick for 2022

The Heron's Cry, sequel to The Long Call ~ by Ann Cleeves | | Great pick for 2022

The Last Days of Night ~ by Graham Moore | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

Eligible ~ by Curtis Sittenfeld | | Great pick for 2022

A Tale of Two Murders ~ by Heather Redmond | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

The Girl You Left Behind ~ by Jojo Moyes | Reviews | Great pick for 2022

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