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    Review: Small Great Things

    by Bekky March 21, 2017
    by Bekky March 21, 2017

    I picked up Jodi Picoultโ€™s Small Great Things because I know she can draw me into a story about contemporary issues with characters I can connect and identify with. Iโ€™ve read all of Picoultโ€™s novels with an exception of one …

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    Review: A Piece of the World

    by Joli March 9, 2017
    by Joli March 9, 2017

    Thanks to TLC Book Tours and HarperCollins for a copy of this book in exchange for a fair review! I was SO excited for this one! I fell in love with Christina Baker Kline when I read Orphan Trainย last year. …

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    Review: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

    by Janna February 23, 2017
    by Janna February 23, 2017

    The Story The Pearl That Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi takes place in Afghanistan and jumps between two characters, Rahima, and her great-aunt, Shekiba. Rahima’s story takes place in 2007 when at age 9, she embraces the custom of …

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    Review: The Art of Racing in the Rain

    by Aubrey February 20, 2017
    by Aubrey February 20, 2017

    The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, was my book club’s January selection. It’s told from a dog’s perspective and is quite widely acclaimed, so I was excited to read it. However, I have few good things …

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    Audiobook Review: A Window Opens

    by Kathleen February 15, 2017
    by Kathleen February 15, 2017

    I heard Elisabeth Egan, author of A Window Opens, give an interview onย Theย New York Times Book Review Podcast in the summer of 2015. She seemed like someone I would want to be friends with. Funny and determined, she wrote her …

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    Review: The Nightingale

    by Janna February 11, 2017
    by Janna February 11, 2017

    I read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah for my October book club….which was awhile ago, but it was so good it still warrants a review four months later. Vianne and Isabelle could not be more different. Isabelle is young and …

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    Review: Dragon Springs Road

    by Aubrey February 3, 2017
    by Aubrey February 3, 2017

    This book has a beautiful cover. I’m a sucker for a beautiful anything, but especially a well-designed book jacket. So after reading the description for this one โ€” and then seeing the cover โ€” I was ready to dive in. …

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    Review: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

    by Becky January 25, 2017
    by Becky January 25, 2017

    Why: I was intrigued by the trailer for the upcoming motion picture version ofย The Light Between Oceans and heard it mentioned that it was adapted from a New York Times Bestseller. When I looked up the book and saw the …

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    Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow

    by Aubrey December 5, 2016
    by Aubrey December 5, 2016

    I’m having a serious like-dislike relationship with Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow. While I really loved parts of it, there were parts I really disliked too. A Gentleman in Moscow begins in post-WWI Russia. It opens in a courtroom, …

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    Book Review: Miller’s Valley

    by Kathleen November 9, 2016
    by Kathleen November 9, 2016

    In a story that’s at once sprawling and hyper-local, Anna Quindlen renders an immensely likable main character. Our narrator is a girl, bound-and-determined to both hold on to the dearest things, and to shake off the oppressive habitsย of her family’s …

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