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C. P. Lesley
Feb 14, 20173 min read
Books We Loved, Feb. 2017
Bren McClain, One Good Mama Bone (Story River Books, 2017) Once in a while, a novel comes along that is just extraordinary, in the best...
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C. P. Lesley
Jan 16, 20173 min read
Books We Loved, Jan. 2017
M. R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts (Orbit, 2015) The unofficial queen of our book group is a tiny Californian with a loud voice and...
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Courtney J. Hall
Dec 19, 20162 min read
Spotlight on Mary Martin Devlin
Where did you get the idea for Precious Pawn? At Mount Holyoke one of my best friends taught in the French Department and used the...
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C. P. Lesley
Dec 15, 20163 min read
Books We Loved, Dec. 2016
Tana French, The Trespasser (Penguin, 2016) Tana French is Irish, and all her books take place in or outside Dublin. To say that they are...
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C. P. Lesley
Nov 15, 20163 min read
Books We Loved, Nov. 2016
Kate Braithwaite, Charlatan (Fireship Press, 2016) Think of Louis XIV, and we think of Versailles. But the City of Light also played host...
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C. P. Lesley
Nov 3, 20161 min read
New Release: A Holiday Wish
Courtney J. Hall takes a detour from sixteenth-century Europe in A Holiday Wish, the first book in the Silver Bells series. In what is...
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C. P. Lesley
Oct 14, 20163 min read
Books We Loved, Oct. 2016
Pauline M. Campos, Baby Fat: Adventures in Motherhood, Muffin Tops, and Trying to Stay Sane (CreateSpace, 2015) When I had my first baby...
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Courtney J. Hall
Sep 21, 20165 min read
Spotlight on Shelly Reuben
You previously worked as an arson investigator and a PI. What inspired you to turn to writing? Actually, it was the other way around. I...
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C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Sep. 2016
Martha Conway, Sugarland (Noontime Books, 2016) It’s 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing, but you wouldn’t know it from the nightclubs...
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C. P. Lesley
Aug 14, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Aug. 2016
Stephanie Cowell, Claude and Camille (2011) Lyrical novel about Claude Monet and the woman who loved him despite the opposition of her...
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C. P. Lesley
Jul 29, 20161 min read
Five Directions Press News
Don’t miss the release of The Falcon Flies Alone, book 1 in Gabrielle Mathieu’s Falcon Trilogy, on August 3, 2016. You can find out more...
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C. P. Lesley
Jul 14, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, July 2016
Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden (Thomas & Mercer, 2016) Not for the faint of heart, The Butterfly Garden is creepy crime fiction...
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C. P. Lesley
Jun 15, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, June 2016
Lynn C. Miller, The Day after Death (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) To survive, children tend to block out the worst of the bad...
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Courtney J. Hall
Jun 15, 20163 min read
Spotlight on J. D. Smith
What drew you to the story of Tristan and Iseult, and why did you decide to write your own version of the tale? My interest was first...
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C. P. Lesley
May 15, 20163 min read
Books We Loved, May 2016
Jennifer Robson, Moonlight over Paris (William Morrow, 2016) This novel about post-war Paris and the Lost Generation is as sparkling and...
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C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Apr. 2016
Anjali Mitter Duva, Faint Promise of Rain (She Writes Press, 2014) A rare rainstorm greets the birth of a girl into the family of the...
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Courtney J. Hall
Mar 17, 20164 min read
Spotlight on Sophie Perinot
What first drew you to the royal court of France? The roots of my love of French history lie in two things. First, when I was young I got...
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C. P. Lesley
Mar 15, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Mar. 2016
Jennifer Weiner, All Fall Down (Atria Books, 2014) Alternating between hilarious and gut-wrenching, infuriating and uplifting, Jennifer...
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C. P. Lesley
Feb 15, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Feb. 2016
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah’s moving story of the French Resistance during...
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C. P. Lesley
Jan 15, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Jan. 2016
This is the first of our monthly “Books We Loved” posts. They are not recommendations, exactly—everyone’s taste differs—but if you enjoy...
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