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Redemption Lake

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Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner is a mystery that takes place in Tucson, Arizona. High school senior Matt Garrison spends a fitful night in the home of his best friend’s mother, Crystal, and awakens to find her slain in the bathtub. His ...

Little Fires Everywhere

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Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere explores themes of mother-daughter bonds, appearance versus reality, and identity. The novel opens with a house fire spreading in the upscale, orderly, picture-perfect Richardson home in one of Shaker Heights’ ...

A Better Place to Be: Based on the Harry Chapin Song

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A Better Place to Be by David Wind is inspired by the folk-rock song of the same name by legendary singer-songwriter-storyteller Harry Chapin. This exquisitely-written novel pays homage to the song while creating a detailed back story and character ...

A Sudden Gust of Gravity

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A Sudden Gust of Gravity by Laurie Boris is an absorbing, satisfying book that takes a fresh look at relationships with original characters. Christina, the daughter of a magician, is a struggling waitress who dreams of following in her father’s ...

The Wiregrass: A Novel

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The Wiregrass: A Novel by Pam Webber takes the reader back to a southern summer in the late 1960s as a group of cousins converge in Crystal Springs, Alabama, for their annual summer-long visit with relatives.   They nickname themselves “cussins” ...

The Girl from the Woods

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The Girl from the Woods by Chris Keane takes us into a world of supernatural occurrences, dreams foreshadowing reality, and sinister acts. At the heart of the novel, though, is nineteen-year-old Dante finding himself and becoming an adult. When the ...

Florence Osmund – Author Study

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Florence Osmund writes layered novels centered on characters trying to find home in a literal and figurative sense. The novels explore how integral family is to each character and how family can consist of people not related by blood. Her books are ...

Unexpected Gifts

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Unexpected Gifts by S. R. Mallery takes the reader on a journey through recent history: The Great Depression, Bulgarians’ Immigration experience at Ford Motors in Detroit, Women’s Suffrage, Woodstock, Civil Rights, and Vietnam. The author weaves a ...