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Books : Contemporary Fiction

The Christmas Clock

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When I picked up The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin, I thought it was going to be a very cheery book, but I was surprised. This novella set in Dreyerville, Michigan focuses on six main characters and touches on some very serious topics like Alzheimer’s, broken relationships and the struggles people have when dealing with both.

Juliet, Naked is worth a look

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Annie and Duncan live together in a dreary English seaside town. Throughout their entire relationship, Duncan has been obsessed with an obscure 80's musician, Tucker Crowe, who quit performing...

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Stuffed Animals in the Mob? Only in Amberville

In his or her first novel, Amberville, Tim Davys (a pseudonym) sets a stage of stuffed animals who have the same everyday concerns we all do. Eric Bear, the protagonist, lives the good life. He has a good job in Mollisan Town’s top advertising agency. He has a beautiful wife Jessica Rabbit and has left his life of gambling, organized crime and drugs behind. That is until his old mob boss, Nicholas Dove, shows up one day with his gorilla goons in tow.  

A stuffed animal may not have a heart or opposable thumbs, but in Amberville they do have crises of conscience, moral dilemmas and metaphysical questions. Davys’ direct prose and the sheer novelty of a stuffed animal world make “Amberville” intriguing without being a cheap novelty.

An Accidental Light shows forgiveness

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An Accidental Light by Elizabeth Diamond

This is a story about love, tragedy and forgiveness. It is a story you will not soon forget.

Jack, Sam, Lisa, and Derek. Their lives are woven together...

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Thoughts on Recent Reads By Stefan Block, Giulia Melucci, and Debbie Macomber

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I recently listened to The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Block--a complex, descriptive story about early onset Alzheimers, read I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci--A New Yorker's...

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