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Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock
Blaylock's story centers around a packhorse librarian in 1930s Appalachian Kentucky and adds layers like a complicated past, second...
Jun 20
Review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
ICYMI: Towles's closed-door tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel manages to be at times playful,...
Dec 1, 2022
Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present...
Jul 21, 2022
Review of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Kim Michele Richardson's historical fiction offers a 1936 Appalachian setting, the magic and unassuming power of a rural librarian, and...
Jul 8, 2021
Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Krueger's writing is lovely, and while the adult characters sometimes feel like caricatures of evil villains, his young characters and...