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--  Landfall by Ellen Urbani , published by Forest Avenue Press . The lives of two mothers and their teenage daughters are torn apart b...

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I do believe in living in the moment, as in being attentive, awake, grateful for what is here, today. The moment, after all, is the only...

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Authors tend to be readers, so it is natural for them to create characters who like to read. It is always interesting to me to read what...

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Tom Rachman's debut novel, The Imperfectionists , about an ex-patriot newspaper in Rome, knocked my socks off. The Rise and Fall of Gr...

Upstairs in her sister's house on the south side of the city in Ranelagh, Grace heard the blast as well. It was about three in the mo...

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During the 1916 Irish Revolution, a star-crossed pair of lovers teamed up to fight the British for an independent Irish Republic. Joe Pl...

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9/11 SERENDIPITY IN TWO BOOKS I RECENTLY READ I read these back-to-back, not realizing that the  Julia Glass book had anything ...

In July 1831, the intermittent fever first descended upon the Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley. . . . By 1833 the fever had spread as ...

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Ellen Jackson has produced the cookbook equivalent of a cheery bowl of lemons, The Lemon Cookbook: 50 Sweet & Savory Recipes to Brigh...

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These savory biscotti have it all: richness and umami from the cheese, brightness from the lemon, and a crunchy kick from the semolina an...

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