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G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com).

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Literature May 17, 2022

Geographies of the Heart

Caitlin Hamilton Summie

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Three members of a loving Minnesota family have a voice in Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s new thought-provoking novel-in-stories, Geographies of the Heart (Fomite 2022). Sarah, the eldest daughter, Al, Sarah’s husband …
Literature May 10, 2022

Lea

Ariela Freedman

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Lea Roback was a feminist and labor activist who was raised in a large Jewish family in Quebec, Canada. In the novel Lea (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022), Ariela Freedman describes a …
Literature May 3, 2022

Constellations of Eve

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

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Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood has created a swiftly mutating story about a woman who is either a loving mother, a famous artist, or a teacher. Constellations of Eve (Texas Tech University …
Literature April 26, 2022

Live Caught

R. Cathey Daniels

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In Live Caught (Black Lawrence Press 2022) by R. Cathey Daniels, we meet Lenny after he’s stolen money and a skiff in an attempt to escape his abusive older brothers …
Literature April 19, 2022

The Lamps of Albarracin

Edith Saavedra

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The Lamps of Albarracin tells the story of Sarita, who looks back on her life before and after the Inquisition arrived in her town. It’s 15th century Spain, and Sarita …
Literature March 29, 2022

River Aria

Joan Schweighardt

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Today I talked to Joan Schweighardt about her novel River Aria (Five Directions Press, 2020). It’s 1928 and Estela Euquério Hopper, of Manaus, Brazil, is the star vocal pupil of a world-renowned …
Literature March 22, 2022

Life Sentences

Billy O'Callaghan

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Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) tells three interconnected stories about a family in his home country of Ireland. In lyrical, moving prose, with characters that reach across the years, Billy O’Callaghan …
Literature March 8, 2022

The Almond in the Apricot

Sara Goudarzi

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Today I talked to Sara Goudarzi about her novel The Almond in the Apricot (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022).Emma lives in New Jersey, works as a civil engineer, has a reliable boyfriend, and …
Literature February 22, 2022

Homicide and Halo-Halo

Mia P. Manansala

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Homicide and Halo-Halo (Berkley, 2022) is the second cozy mystery in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen mystery series. Written in first person, baker Lila Macapagal is about to open the Brew-Ha …
Literature February 15, 2022

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow

Teri M. Brown

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Teri M. Brown's novel Sunflowers Beneath the Snow (Atmosphere Press 2022) opens in 1973 with a Ukrainian man being spirited out of the USSR. He’s part of the resistance and his …
Literature February 8, 2022

In the Shadow of Dora

A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program

Patrick Hicks

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In the Shadow of Dora by Patrick Hicks (Stephen F. Austin University Press 2020) explores the space program’s path from the Dora Mittelbau concentration camp in 1940’s Nazi Germany, to …
Literature February 1, 2022

Bone Broth

Lyndsey Ellis

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Lyndsey Ellis’s debut novel, Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books 2021) tells the story of Justine Holmes, who is mourning her husband’s death and grappling with both societal and family tensions …
Literature January 25, 2022

The Singing Forest

Judith McCormack

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Two children stumble upon a mass grave in the forest outside of Minsk in Belarus where the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, buried tens of thousands of innocent victims of torture …
Literature January 18, 2022

What Storm, What Thunder

A Novel

Myriam J. A. Chancy

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At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning …
Literature January 11, 2022

Down a Dark River

Karen Odden

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In Karen Odden’s latest mystery (Down a Dark River, Crooked Lane Books 2021) it’s 1878 in London, and Scotland Yard inspector Michael Corravan, a former thief and bare-knuckles boxer, is …
Literature December 23, 2021

Stoking Hope

C. K. McDonough

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Stoking Hope (D.X. Varos, 2021), C.K. McDonough’s debut novel, opens in an early 1900’s southwest Pennsylvania coal town. Nineteen-year-old Martha gets pregnant, her father banishes her, and she’s sent to …
Literature December 21, 2021

Night Came With Many Stars

Simon Van Booy

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Night Came With Many Stars (Godine, 2021) ebbs and flows with people who only take or destroy, balanced by those who give or heal. And everything centers on a family …
Literature December 7, 2021

Gone Missing in Harlem

A Novel

Karla FC Holloway

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Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway (TriQuarterly 2021) tells the story of an African American family trying to survive the early decades of the twentieth century. The Mosbys …
Literature November 30, 2021

Nermina's Chance

Dina Greenberg

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Today I talked to Dina Greenberg about her new novel Nermina's Chance (Atmosphere Press, 2021).Nermina is a medical student in Sarajevo. She’s been raised in an educated family of Westernized, secular …
Literature November 23, 2021

Just River

Sara B. Fraser

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Today I talked to Sara B. Fraser about her new novel Just River (Black Rose Writing, 2021).The Otis River flows through the once bustling city of Wattsville, a few hours north of …
Literature November 16, 2021

The Cry of the Hangman

Susanna Calkins

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It’s December 1667 and London is still recovering both from the Plague and the Great Fire. Lucy Campion visits retired judge Master Hargrave and discovers that he’s been attacked and …
Literature November 9, 2021

Nick Bones Underground

Phil M. Cohen

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Shmulie Shimmer is the inventor of LERBS, the most popular designer drug ever to be created. Turns out that it leaves people brain dead, and Shmulie should be in prison …
Literature November 2, 2021

The Weary God of Ancient Travelers

Jessica Sticklor

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Lydia Warren has a particular kind of amnesia. She vaguely recalls arriving in Santorini with a one-armed man whom she calls David Copperfield, who takes care of her. Lydia spends …
Literature October 26, 2021

The Authenticity Project

A Novel

Clare Pooley

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Today I talked to Clare Pooley about her novel The Authenticity Project (Penguin, 2020). In this chatty, very British story, a few personal lines written in a “pale-green exercise book like the …