Pino is a son, skier, smuggler, but most importantly, Pino is a survivor. The teenager is denied a normal life when bombs rain down on Milan as Allied forces attempt to reclaim Italy from German…
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Good Me Bad Me: A Novel by Ali Land
Serial Killers. They are infamous and closely studied. Shows and documentaries are made about them, novels are written. But what about their kids? What happens to them? The book begins with Milly, a fifteen year…
The Ninth Hour: A Novel by Alice McDermott
Love. Friendship. Sacrifice. This novel is about sisterly love – not biological sisters or sorority sisters, but religious sisters – nuns. More specifically, it is a story of women supporting each other, which I found…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Is a life in the Hollywood spotlight as glamorous as it may seem? Are the versions of our favorite stars in the press “real”? Or is there a different narrative behind closed doors? Evelyn Hugo,…
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
Life’s tough wear a helmet… or drop out of law school with a few months to go, come up with a new identity and pose as… a lawyer? John Grisham’s latest novel follows a group…
The Futures by Anna Pitoniak – His and Her Review
Graduating college, entering adulthood. The best of times, the worst of times. For anyone who has lived through the transition from student to professional, you know it is a difficult, confusing and exciting time. Julia…
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
This story is about Graham Cavanaugh, his first wife, his current wife, his son and his life. Graham is married to Audra, his second wife – a ditzy, extrovert, who insists on asserting herself into…