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We return to the world of The Great Library with book two, Paper and Fire, Rachel Caine. It picks up several months after the events of Ink and Bone, where Jess is working on completing his guarda training alongside his friend Glain. It is here that Jess gains new skills and becomes more wary of…
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep is the first book in The Sunken Archive by Sylvie Cathrall and it was not what I was expecting. The book starts with two people who know of each other but have never actually met. Sophy Cidnorghe is a former scholar and the sister of E. Cidnosin who had…
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The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson is the first book in his Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series. It opens with Ted, a young, well-off and recently married man from Boston who has recently discovered that his wife may be cheating on him with the contractor building their new house. On a plane ride back from…
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I was absolutely enthralled with Edge of Eternity, the final book in the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. It opens in the early 1960’s with George Jakes, son of Greg Peshkov, participating in the Freedom Rides. From there it follows his career working with Bobby Kennedy in the Justice Department. At the same time it…
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The Borrowers Afield is the second book in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues both the story of the Clock family and the story of young Kate and Mrs. May. It picks up about a year after Mrs. May first told Kate about the borrowers when Mrs. May inherits some property from her…
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Story by James McBride is a sad, poignant and moving novel. The story opens with a body being discovered when some construction is started and there is some difficulty identifying the body though many in the area seem to have some idea how it got there. It then goes back…
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Sword Catcher is the first book in the Chronicles of Castellane by Cassandra Clare. Kel is a young man who serves Prince Conor of Castellane as his swordcatcher. This means that he is part companion, part bodyguard and body double in order to protect Conor to the best of his ability. Lin is a young…
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The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters is the sequel to The Last Hours and continues the story of Develish. It picks up shortly after the end of the previous book with Lady Anne trying to help her daughter Eleanor with her unexpected and unplanned pregnancy, while also helping the other inhabitants of Develish. The…
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Trying to figure out who you are. A bit of a noble goal that also happens to be the primary them of Taran Wanderer, book four of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. The hero of the series, young Taran, has realized that he is in love with the princess Eilonwy and would like to…
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a complex and multi-layered novel. It tells the story of Dagny Taggert, a young woman who is the vice-president of operations for Taggert Transcontinental which is the family train company. She is an efficient and capable person in a world that seems to be run by inefficient and incapable…
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