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Julie's Review: The Affairs of Others 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Summary: Five years after her young husbands death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she has chosen...
Jenn's Review: Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified 26 Aug 2013 | 01:57 pm
Blurb: GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE? DON'T GET STUMPED. GET PSYCHED!You've seen him solve unsolvable crimes, stop unstoppable killers, and consume unconsumable breakfast cereals. Now Shawn Spencer, the ma...
Children's Corner: The Dark 25 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
I adored reading Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, though I was supremely disappointed by the lack of ending, I came to love the writing for it's smart sense of humor. When I saw The D...
Alice's Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane 23 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Summary: Connie Goodwin should be spending her summer doing research for her Ph.D. dissertation in American History. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandone...
Julie's Review: Off the Menu 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Summary: As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes—and that’s just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Pat...
Children's Corner: Some Dogs Do 18 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
Review: Some Dogs Do is a delightful story about a puppy, Sid, who discovers he can fly on his way to school. When he tells his friends what happened, they dismiss him and make him feel badly about hi...
Julie's Review: Lighthouse Bay 17 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Summary:In 1901, a ship sinks off the coast of Lighthouse Bay in Australia. The only survivor is Isabella Winterbourne—escaping her loveless marriage and the devastating loss of her son—who clutches a...
Julie's Review: More Like Her 14 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
Summary: What really goes on behind those perfect white picket fences? In Frances' mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma Dunham is the height of female perfection. Frances, recently d...
Julie's Review: Children of the Jacaranda Tree 12 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Summary: A country divided by revolution — a people united by love...Neda is born in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before the arms of a guard appear a...
Children's Corner: The Day the Crayons Quit 11 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
Walking into our local Indie children's book store, Monkey See, Monkey Do, I found this book prominently displayed in the front and picked it up. Upon flipping through it, I found that I couldn't pu...
