Book of the Week
“Mastering the Art of French Murder: An American in Paris Mystery,” by Colleen Cambridge (2023, 262 pages, Genre: Mystery) Paris, December 1949. Tabitha Knight travels from Detroit to live with her French grandfather and Uncle Rafe in Paris. Her grandmother has passed away and the two older gentlemen enjoy having Tabitha around. And Tabitha loves helping them. Tabitha worked at the Willow Run bomber plant helping to build B-24...
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“Down a Sunny Dirt Road,” by Stan and Jan Berenstain (2002, 202 pages, Genre: Children’s Nonfiction – Autobiography) It is more than possible that reading the title or the authors’ names above brought back memories of a book you read or someone read to you. Stan and Jan Berenstain began writing children’s books in 1962 and never stopped. Even now, their son Michael continues to publish new titles in the...
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“The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer,” by Rick Jervis (2024, 320 pages, Genre: Nonfiction: True Crime) The Devil Behind the Badge is not an easy book to read, but it’s an important one. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Jervis, this story is a deep dive into the 2018 serial murders unleashed on the border community of Laredo, Texas by Border Patrol agent Juan David...
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson (2024, 420 pages, Genre: Historical Fiction) Summer 1919. Constance Haverhill is employed as a companion to an elderly woman, Mrs. Fog. Constance is no longer welcome at home on her family’s farm, through no fault of her own. Constance and Mrs. Fog are staying at a seaside hotel at Hazelbourne-on-Sea. Mrs. Fog lets Constance have some free time to herself. One...
Book of the week: ‘Temporary, ’ by Hilary Leichter
Temporary (2020, 181 pages, Genre: Speculative fiction) is a unique book about the search for permanence – or the steadiness, as the narrator calls it – in life and in work. A person without an anchor of some sort can find herself alone and unsupported in challenging situations. The narrator, like her mother and grandmother before her, finds herself relying on a temp agency to place her and pay her, while she hopes to find that one...
