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Banned books and hope in a small town

Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

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After having read The Change and The Women of Wild Hills, I decided to pick up Kirsten Miller’s other adult novel. With her other two adult novels, Miller had a big magic realism component and dealt with quite a few larger, topical issues. This one takes on a lot of similar themes but at a more intimate level, in a small Southern town setting. Surprisingly, I think I enjoyed this more than The Change or The Women of Wild Hill! Lula Dean is bitter – […]

There’s a Darkness at the Edge of Town

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

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This is one of my super overdue and late reviews – I read this towards the end of January/beginning of February so let’s just say I’m not going to get super detailed on this review. This novel was a good follow up, and despite the two in the title it’s not a sequel even if it is her second book. I liked One of Us is Lying more, though, because it was more teen focused while this one had more adult involvement. This novel, in […]

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Sugarhouse Blues by Mariah Stewart

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This is book two in the Hudson Sisters Series – the first book “The Last Chance Matinee” introduced the trio of women who are bound by the terms of their father’s will to restore an old theatre in the small town of Hidden Falls, PA where he grew up.  Two of them, Allie and Des, were shocked to discover that they had a half-sister that they never knew about until the reading of the will.  Cara was his daughter by another woman, and he never […]



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