Books We Loved, Dec. 2019
Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has...
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C. P. Lesley
- Nov 15, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Nov. 2019
Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so...
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C. P. Lesley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Sep. 2019
Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jul 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Jul. 2019
Kate Braithwaite, The Girl Puzzle (Crooked Cat Books, 2019) In 1887 Elizabeth Cochrane—a young reporter from Pittsburgh desperate to land...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jun 14, 2019
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Jun. 2019
Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an...
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C. P. Lesley
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Apr. 2019
Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger (Flatiron Books, 2019) The Night Tiger is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a...
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C. P. Lesley
- Mar 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Mar. 2019
C, J. Box, The Disappeared (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) Even fantasy can become mundane if one reads too much of it. The Disappeared by...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Feb 27, 2019
- 5 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Saying Goodbye to Characters (1)
Never can say goodbye, no, no, no, no, now Never can say goodbye Today 5DP Authors are standing around the proverbial water cooler...
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C. P. Lesley
- Feb 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Feb. 2019
Terry Gamble, The Eulogist (William Morrow, 2019) When Olivia Givens and her family leave Ireland in 1819, the crops are failing and the...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jan 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Jan. 2019
P. K. Adams, The Greenest Branch (Iron Knight Press, 2018) Hildegard of Bingen was long one of the forgotten women of history. Consigned...
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C. P. Lesley
- Dec 14, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Dec. 2018
Just in time for holiday shopping and reading, we have a bunch of Christmas and winter books to recommend. Treat yourself, treat your...
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C. P. Lesley
- Nov 16, 2018
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Nov. 2018
Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Atria Books, 2018) It’s not often that I encounter a novel so densely and intricately plotted...
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C. P. Lesley
- Oct 14, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Oct. 2018
John Bude, The Cornish Coast Murder (British Library Edition, 2014 [1935]) Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901–1957), writing as John Bude, was...
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C. P. Lesley
- Sep 14, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Sep. 2018
In addition to our own Joan Schweighardt’s Before We Died (Rivers, Book 1), due out any day, here are a few suggestions for those...
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C. P. Lesley
- Aug 15, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Aug. 2018
Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List (Graydon House, 2018) Everyone’s always trying to find the perfect summer read. The summer after I...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jul 21, 2018
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Jul. 2018
Lots of activity this month, especially in reference to C. P. Lesley’s Legends of the Five Directions series, now officially drawing to a...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jun 15, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Jun. 2018
And don't miss the conclusion to Gabrielle Mathieu’s wonderful Falcon Trilogy, The Falcon Soars, released just this month! After causing...
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C. P. Lesley
- May 16, 2018
- 3 min
Books We Loved, May 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) In these times of racial strife, when our divided nation sees Kanye...
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C. P. Lesley
- Apr 17, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Apr. 2018
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (Washington Square Press, 2015) A totally lovable book is A Man Called Ove—deceptive in its simplicity,...
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C. P. Lesley
- Mar 18, 2018
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Mar. 2018
In addition to these great reads, don’t miss our own Claudia H. Long’s Chains of Silver, released just last week. You can find out more...
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