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    Where the Crawdads Sing: A Novel
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Mar 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Where the Crawdads Sing: A Novel

    Author Delia Owens is a zoologist, as a reader will realize. "Where the Crawdads Sing" paints a picture of the outer banks of North...
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    We Can All Use a "Which Way Tree"
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Oct 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    We Can All Use a "Which Way Tree"

    Texas author and Spur Award Winner Elizabeth Crook brings home another winner with her historical fiction in "The Which Way Tree." It's...
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    A Writer Adds Spice
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Apr 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Writer Adds Spice

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni--a mouthful of a name to remember for this Texan, but well worth the effort when searching for her many books....
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith): A Review
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Jan 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith): A Review

    I've buried my head in some wonderful books in the past year--The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow...
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    A Review of Iain Pears' "Stone's Fall"
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Aug 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    A Review of Iain Pears' "Stone's Fall"

    The central mystery of Iain Pears’ Stone’s Fall concerns how John Stone died. Was the rich and powerful ship-building magnate pushed from...
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    A Man Called Ove: A Review
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Oct 18, 2017
    • 4 min

    A Man Called Ove: A Review

    Swedish author Frederick Backman was repeatedly rejected in his attempt to publish his novel, A Man Called Ove. One publisher told him...
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    A Review of Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow"
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Jun 15, 2017
    • 2 min

    A Review of Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow"

    Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, saved from being shot after the Russian Revolution because a poem attributed to him expressed the People's...
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    Book Review: The Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille
    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Feb 6, 2017
    • 3 min

    Book Review: The Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille

    Nelson DeMille’s The Gold Coast, a bestseller from 1990, is a lasting classic. Author of crime series thrillers and a host of other...
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    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Feb 2, 2017
    • 2 min

    A Review of "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry," by Gabrielle Zevin

    A.J. Fikry is a misanthrope, a misfit, a learned man of books whose irascibility would drive his customers at Island Bookstore elsewhere...
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    Dana Glossbrenner
    • Jan 8, 2017
    • 1 min

    "Listen for the Mourning Dove": A Review

    I read this book by a fellow West Texas lady, F.C. Pearce, between bouts of cooking for all my beloved Christmas company. It wasn't about...
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