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To read Richard Russo is to remember why we read fiction—great storytelling, complex character development and a plot that captivates…

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Travel Light, Move Fast

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Alexandra Fuller’s family and all their foibles are well known to readers of her earlier memoirs. Don’t Let’s Go to…

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The Ghost Clause—Howard Norman

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The incomparable and under-appreciated Howard Norman has produced another compelling and deeply curious tale.  This is a triple love story…

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First: Sandra Day O’Connor: An Intimate Look of the First Woman Supreme Court Justice—Evan Thomas

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It was a thrilling day for many American women when Sandra Day O’Connor joined her 8 colleagues on the Supreme…

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Spying on the South—Tony Horwitz.

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The great landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, worked as a journalist for many years before his long career designing such…

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland—Patrick Radden Keefe

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A heart-wrenching, extensively researched book about “The Troubles”, focused on events during the height of Northern Ireland’s violent guerrilla war…

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Fleishman Is In Trouble—Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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I picked up the galley of this novel (published on June 18) because of the fun title, and the book…

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American Spy—Lauren Wilkinson

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What an original first book posing as a spy novel—and novel it is.  It purports to be the journal of…

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The River—Peter Heller

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From the ominous opening line– “They had been smelling smoke for two days.”–we are alerted to what might become of…

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Down from the Mountain—Bryce Andrews

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Reading this committed, maybe even obsessed, conservationist/animal lover will be “something captivating even intoxicating” as Andrews describes his heightened alertness…

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