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I don’t read political thrillers. What a mistake that would have been to say “I don’t read political thrillers”, and miss The Last Mandarin by Louise Penny and Mellisa Fung. This fast-paced adventure takes the world to the brink of war while a mother and daughter, who have always been on the brink of war, struggle to save it.

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Eloisa James is the author of one of my favorite romances based on a fairy tale, When Beauty Tamed the Beast. Her new historical romance, The Last Lady B, is just as delightful with wonderful characters and a piglet. How many romances have you read with a piglet as a pet?

Despite her father’s description of L...


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Allan Gaw’s novel, The Silent House of Sleep, won the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, and deservedly so. The historical mystery introduces Dr. Jack Cuthbert in a story that beautifully entwines Cuthbert’s years in medical school in Edinburgh, his time serving in World War I, and a case in post-war London. Cuthbert is a complicated, troubled ma...


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After our conversations yesterday, I changed the heading for today’s post. Bookmobiles are libraries, and some of you might want to talk about school libraries, so I just made it libraries, rather than public libraries.

This is the Huron Public Library, my hometown library, although it looked nothing like this when I was a child or the Library Director. The libr...


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It’s been a quiet week here, so I have nothing to discuss except for tomorrow and the book I’m reading. Tomorrow, we’re going to talk about libraries, favorites or memories. I have no other bright ideas about Friday topics, so unless one of us comes up with a bright idea for a June topic, we’ll forget it for now.

In the meantime, what have you been doing? What are y...


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