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Zenith Man

3 Apr 20202 Apr 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky Based on a true story, "Zenith Man," by New York Times' best-selling author Jennifer Haigh, captures the real essence of small town life, and how people…

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Untender Lives

20 Mar 202020 Mar 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky In "Untender Lives" author Teagan Kearney introduces readers to five complex and conflicted heroines, melding their day to day existence with life changing experiences, with sometimes…

Dusk To Dawn

13 Mar 202013 Mar 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky This collection of short stories by Sierra Smith, her first, is one of the most unique, and enjoyable, collections I have come across. It's apparent that…

Anathema

28 Feb 202027 Feb 2020

Reviewed by Amy Gruzesky We meet Reychel on the morning of her fifteenth birthday, a day she is dreading and which turns out to be even worse, when, upon awakening,…

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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…