Category: FICTION

June 17, 2025

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys **** (of 4)

There is no shortage of books describing the horrors of war, which makes this novel of World War II refugees so remarkable for its riveting...

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June 2, 2025

The Lock-Up by John Banville ** (of 4)

The remarkably prolific Irish writer, John Banville, gives his take on Jews in Ireland soon after the end of WW II. Rosa Jacobs is a...

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May 5, 2025

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson *** (of 4)

This is Kate Atkinson’s sixth in her series of Jackson Brody novels. Brody is former British police, now private investigator, called upon to look for...

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March 18, 2025

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke *** (of 4)

In southeast Texas's Nacagdoches County, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has problems big and small. As a Black Texas Ranger he is self-motivated to uphold the...

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March 18, 2025

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

Richard Osman has taken a bread from his retired senior citizens of the Thursday Murder Club. His new crew of investigators include Amy Wheeler, a...

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February 25, 2025

James by Percival Everett **** (of 4)

On the face of it, a book that can be described in a single sentence. What would the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn look like if...

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February 4, 2025

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich **** (of 4)

In a small farming town in North Dakota, sugar beet farming is almost as much everybody's livelihood as keeping track of one's neighbor's business. Kismet,...

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February 4, 2025

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke *** (of 4)

The Civil War has come to Louisiana. Union soldiers are making advances, but slavery, and its cruelties persist. The experience of war, and its changing...

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January 3, 2025

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon *** (of 4)

Athenian soldiers attacked ancient Syracuse (Sicily) in 414 BCE, expecting a quick victory. They lost. Athenian soldiers were captured and held in a quarry on...

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December 13, 2024

Creation Lake ** (of 4) by Rachel Kushner

A left-wing philosopher advocates that it is time for humanity to returning to nature, but sends his diatribes via e-mail. Acolytes reading his emails in...

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