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Jeff Billington 2023 Ryan Shipley wants to go home, and everybody except Ryan knows that. Raised in California where he works for a Los Angeles newspaper, Ryan travels to his deceased father’s Ozark hometown of White Oak, Missouri to attend his grandfather’s funeral, only to learn that he has inherited …
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver 2022 – Pulitzer Prize Winner It sneaks up on you, this book. Damon Fields, better known as Demon Copperhead, is no shrinking violet. His voice is a stream-of-consciousness monologue, delivered at sometimes-manic locomotive speed. Unlike the timid protagonist of David Copperfield, on which Barbara Kingsolver loosely based this …
Naked Once More
Elizabeth Peters 1989 – 4th and final book of the Jacqueline Kirby Mysteries Of the four volumes in the Jacqueline Kirby series, this one is probably the best-developed: Jacqueline, in an unlikely career change, has written a couple of romance novels, become a bestselling author full time, quit her libarian …
The Murders of Richard III
Elizabeth Peters – Book 2 of the Jacqueline Kirby Mysteries This book has a novel premise (get it?) but there was little enticement to follow the convoluted relationhips of the characters, referenced by both their real and their “pretend” names. All were all in costume, playing characters in the historic …
The Seventh Sinner
Elizabeth Peters 1972 – Book 1 of the Jacqueline Kirby Mysteries. For more information and an in-depth review of the series, visit the Jacqueline Kirby Mysteries page. Readers are introduced to Jacqueline Kirby, midwestern librarian and woman of mystery, as she assists a small group of Fellows in Rome when …
What About YOUR Book Group?
Whether you’re a regular member of a book group, an occasional drop-in onbook discussions that are open to the public, or a book group facilitator, youwill benefit from this series of posts that explore how to find, participatein, and lead a book group. Unlike oral storytelling, which involves speakers and …