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Book Review: ‘These Ghosts Are Family’ By Maisy Card
The year is 2005 and Stanford Solomon has a story to tell. He's a Jamaican immigrant in the United States, who was once known as Abel Paisley, who faked his death 35 years ago and assuming the new identity and leaving his real family thinking he was dead. He has...
Book Review: ‘This Terrible Beauty’ By Katrin Schumann
One woman named Bettina Heilstrom tells the story of her youth and time in East Germany and the effects of WWII on her country and on her personal life flashing between her time in East Germany in her home country and ten years later in Chicago. WWII has just ended...
Book Review: ‘The Sea Off Lost Girls: A Novel’ By Carol Goodman
Tess is a teacher at Haywood along with her husband Harmon and her 17 year old son Rudy is a student. Early one morning Rudy texts Tess and asks her to come get him at their special place. Rudy is one of the stars of the new school play and has some psychological...
Book Review: ‘Only Mostly Devastated’ By Sophie Gonzales
A Summer romance between two high school guys entering their senior year. Ollie is in North Carolina for the summer with his parents. His Aunt has cancer and they are helping out taking care of her kids and being there for her. Ollie is at the beach with the children...
UK Movie Review: ‘EMMA.’
Review by Lisa Payne I wonder how many versions of Emma. there have been including the best, Clueless. I mean I love Pride & Prejudice adaptations. And I tend to like TV, rather than movie versions of Emma. because they are so much more expansive and allows Emma. to...
Movie Review: ‘Emerald Run’
Review by Lisa Payne “The lengths we go to for family are infinitely immeasurable, but this path may have just led me too far beyond my return.” During the opening credits, words flash across the screen and honestly, I should have tweaked what type of movie this was....
Interview: Author ‘James Grippando’ Talks His New Jack Swyteck Novel The Big Lie
James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense and winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. THE BIG LIE is his twenty-eighth novel. He lives in south Florida and teaches “The Law & Lawyers in Modern Literature” at the University of Miami...
Interview: Author ‘Sarah-Jane Stratford’ Talks Her New Novel Red Letter Days
Sarah-Jane Stratford grew up in Los Angeles with a deep love of theatre and literature. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history at UC Santa Cruz, she then obtained a master’s degree in medieval history at the University of York in Britain, where she wrote a...
Interview: Author ‘Kerri Maher’ Talks Her New Book The Girl In White Gloves: A Novel About Grace Kelly
I live in Massachusetts just west of Boston but I’ll always identify myself as a California girl because my parents are native Californians and live there still, and I spent the formative years of sixth grade through college in the state. But the truth is, I’ve...
Documentary Review: ‘Foosballers’
Review by James Lindorf In nearly every part of the world outside the United States, the most popular sport is Soccer or Football. First patented in 1921, Table Football/Soccer, better known as foosball, became the way for fans to bring the game into bars, rec...