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Finding ourselves in lost stories
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Finding ourselves in lost stories

“Lot of stories. Sad thing when stories die for the lack of listenin’ ears.” Continue reading Finding ourselves in lost stories

Looking for a home
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Looking for a home

“Open yourself to every possibility, for there is nothing your heart can imagine that is not so.” Continue reading Looking for a home

Book Report: Start with one grand old house and one evil step-mother
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Book Report: Start with one grand old house and one evil step-mother

“Thinking about the past impeded my efforts to be decent in the present.” Continue reading Book Report: Start with one grand old house and one evil step-mother

Book Report: To read or not to read
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Book Report: To read or not to read

This novel is stylistically challenging. Each of the characters— fictional and historic– speaks or relates the speech of another without much connecting tissue. Continue reading Book Report: To read or not to read

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Book Report: Dive into this tale

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock I loved this luscious, lyrical, and somewhat bawdy historical fiction. Debut author, Imogen Hermes Gowar … Continue reading Book Report: Dive into this tale

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Book report: A lusty, time-traveling romance

While my daughter has been a fan of the STARZ TV series for a while and I’d known of the … Continue reading Book report: A lusty, time-traveling romance

Book Report: Just one kiss
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Book Report: Just one kiss

“It Only Takes a Kiss” is the second in Wilma Counts’ “Once Upon a Bride” trilogy, in which she gives … Continue reading Book Report: Just one kiss

Book Report: Another political wife who stood by her man
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Book Report: Another political wife who stood by her man

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie For months the Hamilton soundtrack quickened … Continue reading Book Report: Another political wife who stood by her man

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Book report: The power of the book

The People of the Book Australian archivist Hannah Heath has come to Sarajevo to investigate and conserve a priceless text, … Continue reading Book report: The power of the book

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Book Report: Women in war

The Alice Network I told myself I wouldn’t go back to the dark and desperate world of WWII Europe’s deprivations. … Continue reading Book Report: Women in war

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