Literary Novel Clock Dance
Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler: Daughter of a steadfast, loving father and mercurial mother, eleven-year-old Willa Drake wants to be a steadying influence on a […]
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Mainstream Love Story The Longest Ride
The Longest Ride, by Nicholas Sparks: Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson sits slumped in his car in a snowdrift, unable to move. His wife, dead nine years […]
Pitch the Story
People love to hear a good story or a good joke. Whenever someone says to my brother-in-law, “I’m going to tell you a joke,” he […]
Literary Novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie; translated by Ina Rilke: Luo and I are not yet twenty when we arrive on Phoenix […]
Comic Mystery Bad Monkey
Bad Monkey, by Carl Hiaasen: In comic mystery BAD MONKEY, a severed arm reeled in from the waters off Key West offers former Deputy Sheriff […]
Romantic Thriller Mean Streak
Mean Streak, by Sandra Brown: On a winter practice run alone in the North Carolina mountains, pediatrician marathoner Emory Charbonneau runs smack into fate as […]
Literary Novel The Other
The Other, by David Guterson: A middle-class English teacher with a wife and two children, my life would have been poetically mundane if not for […]
Psychological Thriller The Best of Me
The Best of Me, by Nicholas Sparks: When death of a mutual friend reunites Dawson Cole and his former sweetheart Amanda in psychological thriller THE BEST […]
Paranormal Romance Maybe This Time
Maybe This Time, by Jennifer Crusie: When her ex-husband, lawyer North Archer, asks Andie to take care of his cousin’s orphaned children in a haunted […]
Literary Novel Bel Canto
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett: When Latin American revolutionaries hold hostage a houseful of international musicians and guests in literary novel BEL CANTO, an indomitable […]