Books We Loved, Dec. 2019
Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has...
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C. P. Lesley
Nov 15, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Nov. 2019
Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so...
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C. P. Lesley
Oct 17, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Oct. 2019
And while you’re browsing all these wonderful books, don’t miss our latest release: Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead, book 2 in her...
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C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Sep. 2019
Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant...
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Joan Schweighardt
Aug 30, 20194 min read
Spotlight on Joy Castro
It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent...
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C. P. Lesley
Aug 15, 20193 min read
Books We Loved, Aug. 2019
Anna Burns, Milkman (Faber and Faber, 2018) “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to...
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C. P. Lesley
Jul 15, 20193 min read
Books We Loved, Jul. 2019
Kate Braithwaite, The Girl Puzzle (Crooked Cat Books, 2019) In 1887 Elizabeth Cochrane—a young reporter from Pittsburgh desperate to land...
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Joan Schweighardt
Jun 28, 20195 min read
Spotlight on Faye Rapoport DesPres
With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...
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C. P. Lesley
Jun 14, 20195 min read
Books We Loved, Jun. 2019
Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an...
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C. P. Lesley
May 15, 20193 min read
Books We Loved, May 2019
Rachael Bloome, Puzzle Pieces (2019) Free download at author’s website Elle is an app developer whose claim to fame is Puzzle Pieces, an...
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C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Apr. 2019
Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger (Flatiron Books, 2019) The Night Tiger is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a...
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C. P. Lesley
Mar 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Mar. 2019
C, J. Box, The Disappeared (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) Even fantasy can become mundane if one reads too much of it. The Disappeared by...
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C. P. Lesley
Feb 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Feb. 2019
Terry Gamble, The Eulogist (William Morrow, 2019) When Olivia Givens and her family leave Ireland in 1819, the crops are failing and the...
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C. P. Lesley
Jan 15, 20193 min read
Books We Loved, Jan. 2019
P. K. Adams, The Greenest Branch (Iron Knight Press, 2018) Hildegard of Bingen was long one of the forgotten women of history. Consigned...
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C. P. Lesley
Dec 14, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Dec. 2018
Just in time for holiday shopping and reading, we have a bunch of Christmas and winter books to recommend. Treat yourself, treat your...
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C. P. Lesley
Nov 16, 20183 min read
Books We Loved, Nov. 2018
Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Atria Books, 2018) It’s not often that I encounter a novel so densely and intricately plotted...
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C. P. Lesley
Oct 14, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Oct. 2018
John Bude, The Cornish Coast Murder (British Library Edition, 2014 [1935]) Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901–1957), writing as John Bude, was...
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C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Sep. 2018
In addition to our own Joan Schweighardt’s Before We Died (Rivers, Book 1), due out any day, here are a few suggestions for those...
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C. P. Lesley
Aug 15, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Aug. 2018
Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List (Graydon House, 2018) Everyone’s always trying to find the perfect summer read. The summer after I...
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C. P. Lesley
Jul 21, 20185 min read
Books We Loved, Jul. 2018
Lots of activity this month, especially in reference to C. P. Lesley’s Legends of the Five Directions series, now officially drawing to a...
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