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A return to small-town Illinois: windmills, dairy farms, and heartache Author: Elizabeth Strout Fans of Elizabeth Strout, rejoice. She has compiled a book of loosely connected short stories that center on the small town where Lucy—main character of My Name Is Lucy Barton—grew up. Slim but vivid, Anything Is Possible places the reader in rural Amgash, Illinois, where the sense of place is so convincing that we can almost hear the cornfields rustle. We meet an array of characters who (mostly) try to relate to others in spite of the heavy loads they carry, including a mother who leaves her [...]

Evermore... Author:  Laura Lee Huttenbach What’s the most incredible thing you’ve never heard of?  I’ll admit that the question is completely unanswerable, but I’m willing to bet that you didn’t know that there’s a man who has run the same eight mile loop along the southern half of Miami Beach every single day for the past forty years.  His name is Robert Kraft – called Raven by his many friends – and his running streak may well be the craziest thing in the history of sports. Over the years, he’s collected almost three thousand running buddies – from 87 different [...]

Kitties and Crazed Killers Author: Sofie Ryan Returning to her summer childhood home in North Harbor, Maine, Sarah Grayson is ready to mend the threads of her life. She’s opened Second Chance, a quaint store where neglected and vintage furniture comes for restoration and her own zany re-interpretation. Elvis, a feisty street feline with a scar and the preternatural ability to distinguish lies, has adopted the store as his new home, and meanwhile Sarah is connecting with her grandmother’s friends, the ladies who pampered her as she grew up. Everything seems to be all roses and glossy polish . . [...]