IDLE GROUNDS | Kirkus Reviews

IDLE GROUNDS | Kirkus Reviews

by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…

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BETA VULGARIS | Kirkus Reviews

BETA VULGARIS | Kirkus Reviews

by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…

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STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL | Kirkus Reviews

STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL | Kirkus Reviews

by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…

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THE WATERMARK | Kirkus Reviews

THE WATERMARK | Kirkus Reviews

by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…

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THE LAUNCH DATE | Kirkus Reviews

THE LAUNCH DATE | Kirkus Reviews

by Rebecca Yarros ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 2021 A charming dual-timeline romance about learning from past mistakes. Likes 11 Our Verdict GET IT In Yarros’ latest romance novel, a young woman hires a handsome but infuriating writer to complete her late great-grandmother’s half-finished book. After her marriage to a Hollywood producer ends in high-profile…

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LOCA | Kirkus Reviews

LOCA | Kirkus Reviews

by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…

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LITTLE MYSTERIES | Kirkus Reviews

LITTLE MYSTERIES | Kirkus Reviews

by Janet Evanovich ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 5, 2024 As usual, Evanovich handles the funny stuff better (much better) than the mystery stuff. Likes 10 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Stephanie Plum’s 31st adventure shows that Trenton’s preeminent fugitive-apprehension agent still has plenty of tricks up her sleeve, and needs every one…

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CANDLEWOOD | Kirkus Reviews

CANDLEWOOD | Kirkus Reviews

by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 3, 2015 Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a…

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THE ELLESMERE WOLVES | Kirkus Reviews

THE ELLESMERE WOLVES | Kirkus Reviews

by Amy Tan ; illustrated by Amy Tan ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2024 An ebullient nature lover’s paean to birds. A charming bird journey with the bestselling author. In his introduction to Tan’s “nature journal,” David Allen Sibley, the acclaimed ornithologist, nails the spirit of this book: a “collection of delightfully quirky, thoughtful, and…

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THE FONDLING OF DETAILS | Kirkus Reviews

THE FONDLING OF DETAILS | Kirkus Reviews

by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…

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