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Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The

First in a New Cozy Mystery Series Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Jim Qwilleran has recently joined The Daily Fluxion, and as their newest reporter, he is immediately out of his depth, stuck in the art critic section. While he enjoys a good juice at the local press club, and a good complaint with coworkers, he realizes that he has fallen into the ominous shadow of the much hated main art critic for the paper – George Bonifield Mountclemens. What the weedy Mountclemens lacks in charisma, he makes up for with a poison pen. Mountclemens has sent many an aspiring artist into [...]

2022-10-01T16:41:15-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Tender Prey

Part Horror, Part Thriller: A Mother's Dilemma Author: Julia Grice Sherry Vincent is haunted by memories of her summer as a 12-year-old: of the handsome teacher, the secret meeting with him and her friends, what he did, and what the town did afterwards. It’s something she can never escape, and now as a recently divorced single mother, raising her beautiful 12-year-old daughter Kady, all the fears are coming back. When someone begins to buzz their remote house with a snowmobile, unsolicited and decidedly adult glamour shots of her daughter appear in town, and violent pornographic tapes start to arrive in the [...]

2022-10-01T12:24:30-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Age of Innocence

A So-So Classic with Unlikable Characters Author: Edith Wharton Newland Archer, former lover of a married woman, has sown his wild oats. He is ready to settle down, yet he hopes that his new wife, May Well, will be open to his ideas. Despite having chosen May and wooed her for her societal prestige, her cosseted goodness, her forced innocence, he has ideas about the liberation of a woman’s mind. He is at war with himself – with what he says he wants and what he really wants. But he realizes none of this. Enter the Countess Olenska, a distant relative [...]

2022-09-26T18:27:42-07:00September 26th, 2022|Tags: , , , |
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