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Books We Loved, Jun. 2022
Books We Loved in June, by Jen DeLuca, Damon Galgut, and Elles Lohuis. Summer reading, everyone!
Five Directions Press
Jun 15, 20226 min read
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Books We Loved, May 2022
Books We Loved in May 2022, with nods to Dianne Freeman, Madeline Miller, and Sara A. Mueller.
Five Directions Press
May 15, 20224 min read
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Books We Loved, Apr. 2022
Books We Loved in April, by Teri M. Brown, Ruth Ozeki, and Lindsey J. Palmer.
Five Directions Press
Apr 15, 20225 min read
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Books We Loved, Mar. 2022
Books We Loved in March 2022, by Tania Bayard, Colleen Hoover, and Peng Shepherd
Five Directions Press
Mar 15, 20224 min read
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Books We Loved, Feb. 2022
Books We Loved in February, by Muriel Barbery, Emma Donoghue, and K. B. Owen.
Five Directions Press
Feb 14, 20224 min read
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Books We Loved, Jan. 2022
Well, here it is, a new month and a new year. We hope everyone had a great holiday, with lots of good books to while away the evenings...
Five Directions Press
Jan 14, 20224 min read
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Spotlight on Faye Rapoport DesPres
Joan Schweighardt interviews Faye Rapaport DesPres about her children's book series featuring stray cats.
Joan Schweighardt
Dec 22, 20217 min read
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Books We Loved, Dec. 2021
Books We Loved in Dec. 2021, by Jenny Bayliss, Jean Meltzer, and Jinny Webber
C. P. Lesley
Dec 14, 20213 min read
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Books We Loved, Nov. 2021
The nights are getting longer, the days colder, and the holidays fast approaching. All good reasons for stocking up on some great books....
C. P. Lesley
Nov 15, 20215 min read
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Spotlight on G.P. Gottlieb
We were thrilled to have the chance to interview G.P. Gottlieb, a true renaissance woman, for our October Spotlight feature. G.P. is a...
Joan Schweighardt
Oct 28, 20215 min read
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Books We Loved, Oct. 2021
Books We Loved in October 2021, by Amy Bloom, Ilene Schneider, and Rowenna Miller
Five Directions Press
Oct 15, 20214 min read
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Books We Loved, Sept. 2021
Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love (Gallery Books, 2021) I was sort of angry when I read the synopsis for To Sir, With Love by Lauren Layne....
C. P. Lesley
Sep 15, 20215 min read
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Books We Loved, Aug. 2021
As we approach the last full month of summer (and where did those last two months go?), we still have time for long, lazy days of...
Five Directions Press
Aug 15, 20215 min read
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Books We Loved, July 2021
Linda Browning, It Otter Be a Crime (Amazon, 2021) If you enjoyed the Emmy-award-winning The Golden Girls TV series back in the day, then...
Five Directions Press
Jul 14, 20214 min read
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Books We Loved, June 2021
Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (Henry Holt, 2021) I read Shadow and Bone after watching the fantasy Netflix series of the same name. It’s...
C. P. Lesley
Jun 15, 20216 min read
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Books We Loved, May 2021
Chang-Rae Lee, My Year Abroad (Riverhead Books, 2021) My Year Abroad is divided into chapters describing narrator Tiller Bardmon’s life...
C. P. Lesley
May 14, 20215 min read
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Books We Loved, Apr. 2021
Anne Louise Bannon, Death of the Zanjero (Healcroft House, 2018) It’s 1870, and Maddie Wilcox, a young widow supporting herself by...
C. P. Lesley
Apr 15, 20214 min read
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Books We Loved, Mar. 2021
Nina Bocci, The Ingredients of You and Me (Gallery Books, 2020) Miscommunication is a commonly used plot device in romance novels, and if...
Five Directions Press
Mar 14, 20215 min read
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Books We Loved, Feb. 2021
Lots of good picks here, and—if you enjoy historical fiction set in a lesser-known time and place (sixteenth-century Russia), don’t miss...
Five Directions Press
Feb 15, 20214 min read
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Books We Loved, Jan. 2021
Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze (Avon, 2020) Catalina Baylor is the titular Prime of House Baylor, where she and her crew, including her...
Five Directions Press
Jan 15, 20213 min read
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