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Anne Pyburn reviews Last Train Out, by Richard Boes.
Anne Pyburn reviews Charley Rosen’s No Blood, No Foul
A mystery by award-winning author Carol Goodman and a story by master oral storyteller Gioia Timpanelli are on this month’s reading list.
A Spring Without Bees is author Michael Schacker’s convincing, educating, and amusing look at how society is on the brink of Civilization Collapse Disorder.
Anne Pyburn reviews Do My Story, Sing My Song, and Maiden USA, two books that touch on key current issues: the Texas polygamist cult scandal and our comprehension of females in America.
It is deep without being onerous, a beautifully told tale of how lives that may appear on the surface to be falling apart are actually falling into place.
Mudbound February 25, 2008
Anne Pyburn reviews Hillary Jordan’s Mudbound.
Ulster County Noir is serious fun for any lover of the genre, and Hamilton pulls it off with enormous panache.
Anne Pyburn reviews the new Stephen H. Foreman novel, Toehold.
Anne Pyburn reports how the collapse of high-risk leans is affecting consumer lending.
A well-done short story feels miraculous, the selection of just the right moments and details to create an entire reality in a bite-sized handful of pages. Woodstock author Jana Martin gets it right.
Pia’s story is eminently accessible to young teens. The characters and their dilemmas are drawn with loving detail and the book’s lack of simple resolutions rings of real life.
Scott Ian Barry’s photographs were once described by Ansel Adams as “striking and generous portraits.”
Former sitcom and ad writer Marshall Karp blasted holes through Hollywood hypocrisy in his 2006 debut, The Rabbit Factory. Now the Woodstock mystery maven brings his comical cops back for another round in Bloodthirsty.
Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s—An Oral History by Jeff Kisseloff.
The first few lines of Ask the Parrot parachute the reader into the middle of a manhunt in the backwoods of New England—and into the life of an incredibly dangerous man.