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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is the story of three sisters who go to their ancestral homeland, India, to visit holy s...

In 1939, Dutch brothers Jacob and Edwin Koopman are sent to Hitler Youth Camp in Germany. They'd really prefer to spend the summer he...

I just finished Killfile by Christopher Farnsworth a couple hours ago and it was such fun that I want to write about it right now . Well...

I've tried and failed to write a decent review of Commonwealth , so . . . next attempt, the old faithful self-interview.  I will be...

The Woman in the Photo by Mary Hogan is a contemporary/historical novel in which a modern-day adoptee in a closed adoption, Lee Parker, ...

I've decided to combine  50 Children and The Accidental Caregiver with  Children's Wartime Diaries in one post because they have W...

The whole round world will funnel into nothingness, and you will see the truth in his eyes: that life, that living, is more than what...

Is That My Cat? by Jonathan Allen is about a cat who has suddenly become lazy and fat.   Is that my cat? It can't be. My cat is ...

In 1932, Lily Dane fell in love.  After a drive to see her best friend Budgie's boyfriend play football, Lily met Nick Greenwald.  Th...

Asmat was otherworldly. Compelling. A strange and fecund universe utterly removed from the grip of the world.  The jungle was thick, but ...

I've mentioned A History of the World with Google Earth by Worms and Ings a couple times, as I read, because I was having such a bla...

Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France 1942-1944 by Jim Eldridge is the fictional tale of a French teenager living in occupied France.  During...

The wake lasted for another hour or so, and probably would have gone on for hours longer had the skies not suddenly clotted up and the wi...

[. . . ] like it or not, this town was a part of me.  I could feel its dust on my feet, its rivers like blood in my veins, its street patt...

Everything moved too fast and New York City was dirty and full of itself, but Cora's eyes had been opened by being in the heart of it,...