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Home Fires Burn

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A wonderfully diverse mystery, peopled with characters you will wish for more time with, this is the third (and final) book in a trilogy featuring PI Merry Bell, a transgender woman based in Saskatchewan, Canada. The first in the series for this reader, this book is easily enjoyed as…

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Head Cases

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gardner Camden (Gardy) is a thirty-seven year old FBI agent who works for an unusual division called PAR (Patterns and Recognition). With a focus on solving the toughest crimes, those involving pattern recognition and the making of obscure connections, Gardy is a genius level agent, who just happens to…

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How to Survive a Bear Attack

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Part memoir, and part historically accurate re-telling of a fatal and horrific bear attack on two campers in 1991, this is a difficult book to read, both for its emotional content and its blood-curdling recounting of the most nightmarish encounter with wildlife this reader could ever imagine. Made all…

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Party of Liars

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wowza! A perfectly crafted multiple-POV psychological suspense story, rich with sizzling characters (all of them hiding something) and a setting as lip-smackingly luscious as it is creepy and sinister. With a plot that builds, and winds, and re-winds, gleefully delighting in tricking the reader, several times, into what feels…

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Spark Bird

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gorgeous, mesmerizing read with a stop-the-clock ending, that you may just find yourself dreaming about, the next time you hear a bird sing outside your window (your very own soul-stirring spark bird). Simon, our third person POV narrator is a thirty-year-old musician, who has never quite managed to…

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An Oral History of Atlantis

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Perhaps the strangest collection of short stories this reader has encountered, this is a hard book to categorize, but an easy book to love. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, often sardonic, absurd and always wildly inventive, these short stories contain some repeating characters and straddle situations, including those involving: inane…

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Easy Beauty

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A beautiful and generous memoir, written by a professor of Philosophy who has experienced more pain, quite likely, than most of us, and has acted on her inclination and thoughtfulness to share her learnings with us. Chloe, from birth, suffers from a disorder related to disruptions in the development…

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Greenteeth

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A book that defies black-and-white categorization — filled with fantasy, folklore, magic and fairies, —but if “delightful” was a book genre, “Greenteeth” would be top of its class. Charming, humorous, and imaginative — this is the story of Jenny Greenteeth, who is not technically a “hag” but is a…

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Where You Belong

🌟🌟🌟💫 A story which has received a number of wonderful reviews, this book ended up not totally hitting the mark for this reader (who may be in the minority here). Julia, the main protagonist and third person POV narrator, begins our tale as a psychologist, working as an executive for…

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The Day I Left You

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A terrific all-around read — combining a mystery, a love story and a whole lot of historical intrigue — all wrapped up in a multiple-POV, multiple-timeframe narrative that makes for a unique and mesmerizing experience. Greta Schneider and her family are native East Germans, living in Berlin in 1982,…

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