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Bonds of Love and Blood

21 Feb 202024 Feb 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky Using travel as a common theme, author Marylee MacDonald introduces readers to characters that are strong, vulnerable, weak, compromised and compromising in this collection of twelve…

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Everything My Mother Taught Me

14 Feb 202013 Feb 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky This short story by renowned author Alice Hoffman tells the story of Adeline, a 12-year-old girl left to grow up fast after the untimely death of…

Cigar Barons

31 Jan 202030 Jan 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky This book by the author Isabella has a little bit of everything -- an untimely and unexpected death, sibling rivalry, adultery, treachery, love, history, an inheritance,…

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Uncommon Type

24 Jan 202022 Jan 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky This collection of short stories by actor Tom Hanks is not what I expected -- in a good way. Honestly, when I first picked up the…

All The Names They Used For God

17 Jan 202014 Jan 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky This debut collection of nine short stories by Anjali Sachdeva is mesmerizing, enchanting and sometimes, jarring -- but definitely worth reading. The book is the winner…

The Didsbury Witch

15 Jan 202015 Jan 2020

Review by Heather Haunert The Didsbury Witch by Tess Humphrey is the third book in the Hunky Dory series. The Hunky Dory series is a collection of short stories that…

Instructions for a Funeral

8 Jan 202015 Jan 2020

Review by Heather Haunert Instructions for a Funeral written by David Means is a collection of fourteen short stories that have appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, The…

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Nell And Lady

3 Jan 20208 Jan 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky What starts out seemingly as a story of an unlikely and extremely close friendship between Lady, the daughter of white, wealthy, Southern parents and Nell, the…

Dark Tales

1 Jan 20201 Jan 2020

Review by Heather Haunert Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson is a collection of the author’s most disturbing tales. There are seventeen stories included that vary in length, but not in…

Red At The Bone

27 Dec 201925 Dec 2019

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky I had high hopes for this short novel by award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson, and I wasn't disappointed. Having been named one of Oprah Magazine's Best Books…

Hillbilly Elegy

25 Dec 20191 Jan 2020

12.25.19 Review by Heather Haunert Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of a Family & Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance is a New York Times bestselling book that is soon to…

The Lobster’s State Of Mind: A Collection of Short Stories

20 Dec 201919 Dec 2019

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky An interesting and intriguing collection of short stories by Israeli author Hovav Heth, the characters in these stories are ordinary people doing ordinary things, when a…