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San Jose Fiction

Nicely paced, enjoyable story

Lucy Mainwaring, daughter of a country clergyman, comes to her wealthy aunt’s and uncle’s London home for a season. Sir Leyster and...
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An Argentine Honeymoon

At eighteen, Leora Marie Boessen leaves her school-teaching job and her Oregon home to marry Claude Banning, a grade school friend. The next day...
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The 11th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival - April 19 - 26

  • film fetival
  • April 11, 2012
The 11th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival [TIFF] starts April 19 and runs through April 26 at the Playhouse Theater in Tiburon, naturally...
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Annalena McAfee’s ‘The Spoiler’ sparkles with tabloid bravura

(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)“The Spoiler” (Knopf) by Annalena McAfee pits an aging news woman against a young...
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Embrace Jessica Shirvington's action-packed novel

I constantly heard the praise for Embrace by Jessica Shirvington and because there were so many other books on top of it in my to-be-read pile, it...
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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison hits home with the novel ‘Home’

(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)Toni Morrison has written “Home” (Knopf) as "a deeply moving novel about an...
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The Future of Storytelling

  • Sacre Bleu
  • May 21, 2012
To many, the future of reading lies in the transformation of books from paper to tiny computers. Since the release of the original Kindle, which...
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Lifeway fiction event May 18-19

Every year Lifeway Christian Store has a fiction day or weekend. And that is what is happening this weekend may 18th -19th. All around the United...
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'A Dog's Journey' by W. Bruce Cameron: a four tissue and five star read

"A Dog's Journey" by W. Bruce Cameron will make you cry. It will make you cry in several places.One might ask, why read a book where...
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John Irving holds true to bizarre with ‘In One Person’

(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)"I don't go out of my way to find or invent things that are bizarre. It just seems to me...
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