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History Lesson for Girls

Friday, February 26th, 2010

By Aurelie Sheehan
Published by Penguin; June 2007;$14.00US/$17.50CAN; 978-0-14-311190-0
Chapter One
One Day I saw them, our imagine horses, and on that day I absorbed over to the side of the road and cried. There they were, Appaloosas and roans and bays, and I felt I saw, squinting into the concluding bit of sunlight, a gray. All the [...]

The Forever Once a once a year

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

By Ronald Anthony
Published by Forge
May 2003; $24.95US/$34.95CAN; 0-765-30405-8
Do you believe that love may perhaps last perpetually?
Jesse Sienna doesn’t. His own parents’ marriage was caring however passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love burns brightest before fizzling out completely. So when his elderly father, Mickey, moves in with him and seems unable to [...]

Queen of the Underworld: A Novel

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

By Gail Godwin
Published by Ballantine Books
January 2007;$14.95US/$19.95CAN; 978-0-345-48319-5
In the summer of 1959, for Castro clamps drink on Cuba for well as its first wave of exiles flee to the Says, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her line of business as a reporter. Emma’s avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms in [...]

My Perfect Mess

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Nancy Roman Finance Litchfield, Connecticut
I had a rotten fifth grade. Although I made good grades, worked hard, was quiet and mostly obedient, Sister Saint Therese du Divine Coeur hated messy. And I was so messy.
Sister Saint Therese made us fasten our winter boots jointly with clothespins, line unsleeping our book bags neatly in a row not [...]