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Year of Wonders

Interesting Premise, But Breaks the Historical Mystique Author: Geraldine Brooks It’s 1666 and recently widowed Anna Frith is beginning to see hope and possibility. Not only has her new lodger brought some much-needed money into her domicile, but his love of her children, his inappropriately amusing city stories, and the bolts of colorful cloth he uses to weave the latest fashions are slowly drawing her back into the world. Perhaps there is more between them – or could be. Perhaps it is time to let go of grief and embrace life again. But then her boarder dies, horribly, and she [...]

2023-04-16T19:10:11-07:00April 16th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Sundial

The Effects of Generational Abuse Author: Catriona Ward Rob’s life is only perfect on the outside. On the inside, it is a life of abuse and hatred. Something keeps Rob in her loveless marriage though. Makes her put up with her husband’s violence, keeps them hurting one another day in and day out. That something is her children. Two little girls. It’s worth the violence, the pain, the degradation. But then one day, Rob discovers the bones in Callie’s room. The tiny animal bones, fitted together against construction paper, reassembled into a whole. Callie says the ghosts come with her, keep [...]

2023-04-08T10:06:55-07:00April 8th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Root Witch, The

Tree Vengeance Author: Debra Castaneda is something ancient in the aspen forest, and it hates us. Newly hired Forest Service Ranger Knox has mixed feelings about his Utah post. While he is excited to have a job, he is terrified to tell his wife that they are leaving her beloved big city for a remote posting. His cabin, right next to the rare clone aspen forest, is majestic and beautiful. But there are none of the big city mod cons and nowhere for Knox’s increasingly agitated wife to escape the isolation. Add to that the fact that something about the forest, [...]

2023-04-08T08:11:27-07:00April 8th, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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