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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...
C. P. Lesley
Dec 16, 20193 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Nov 15, 20194 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20194 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Jul 15, 20193 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Jun 14, 20195 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20194 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Mar 14, 20194 min read
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Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Saying Goodbye to Characters (1)
Never can say goodbye, no, no, no, no, now Never can say goodbye Today 5DP Authors are standing around the proverbial water cooler...
Joan Schweighardt
Feb 27, 20195 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Feb 14, 20194 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Jan 15, 20193 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Dec 14, 20184 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Nov 16, 20183 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Oct 14, 20184 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20184 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Aug 15, 20184 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Jul 21, 20185 min read
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Books We Loved, Jun. 2018
And don't miss the conclusion to Gabrielle Mathieu’s wonderful Falcon Trilogy, The Falcon Soars, released just this month! After causing...
C. P. Lesley
Jun 15, 20184 min read
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Books We Loved, May 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) In these times of racial strife, when our divided nation sees Kanye...
C. P. Lesley
May 16, 20183 min read
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Books We Loved, Apr. 2018
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (Washington Square Press, 2015) A totally lovable book is A Man Called Ove—deceptive in its simplicity,...
C. P. Lesley
Apr 17, 20184 min read
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Books We Loved, Mar. 2018
In addition to these great reads, don’t miss our own Claudia H. Long’s Chains of Silver, released just last week. You can find out more...
C. P. Lesley
Mar 18, 20184 min read
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