Jenny Lyons
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Book review: A Line to Kill — by Anthony Horowitz
The third Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery, this whodunnit may be my favorite in the series.
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Book review: Swamplands: Tundra beavers, quaking bogs and the improbable world of peat — by Edward Struzik
Tamarack trees, which grow in peatland forests and also on islands of mounded peat, need 300 years to reach seven feet in height.
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Book review: The Death of Jane Lawrence — by Caitlin Starling
Jane Shoringfield is a pragmatic woman with a head for figures; she’s been keeping the accounts for her guardians, the kindly couple who took her in after the…
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Book review: Sankofa — by Chibundu Onuzo
Anna Graham, with an unsteady marriage, a fully-grown independent daughter, and a mother recently passed, is now uncovering her past and figuring out who she is.
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Book review: My Monticello — by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
In the titular novella, Black children, the elderly, innocent families are forced from their homes in a wave of violence and destruction.
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Book review: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller — Nadia Wassef
In 2002, Nadia Wassef, along with four business partners, one of them her sister, opened Diwan Bookstore in Cairo, Egypt, the flagship store of what was to become,…
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Book review: Harlem Shuffle — by Colson Whitehead
This is the Harlem of the 1960s, crucible of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Book review: Bewilderment — by Richard Powers
When astrobiologist Theo Byrne loses his wife, the center of his universe, he is left, seemingly without the proper tools in his arsenal, to single-parent Robin, the child…
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Book review: Bewilderment — by Richard Powers
(W. W. Norton & Company)When astrobiologist Theo Byrne loses his wife, the center of his universe, he is left, seemingly without the proper tools in his arsenal, to…
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Book review: Graceland, At Last — by Margaret Renkl
(Milkweed Editions)Hopeful, tender, honest and vulnerable — the essays written by Margaret Renkl (Late Migrations) and published in her op-ed column in the New York Times — that…
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Book review: Poet Warrior — by Joy Harjo
(W. W. Norton & Company)In Joy Harjo’s second memoir, the poet, author, musician, playwright, and first Native American to serve as the U.S. poet laureate, reveals, in illuminating…
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Book review: The Guide — by Peter Heller
(Knopf Publishing Group)If you read “The River” by Peter Heller, you will have a good idea of just what kind of literary territory you are venturing into —…
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Book review: Damnation Spring — by Ash Davidson
(Scribner)Be prepared to fall hard, fast and deep for the people who inhabit this debut novel by Ash Davidson as they navigate changing livelihoods, a changing climate, and…
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Book review: Dark Waters — by Katherine Arden
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)In this hair-raising novel by Vermont author and Middlebury College alum, Brian, Ollie and Coco, still banded closely together for safety, make…
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Book review: Once There Were Wolves — by Charlotte McConaghy
(Flatiron Books)Inti Flynn, biologist — impulsive, idealistic yet deeply knowledgeable and passionate about reintroducing wolves as a way of rewilding environments and thus combating climate change — cannot…
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Book review: This Is Your Mind On Plants — by Michael Pollan
(Penguin Press)In his distinctive journalistic form, Michael Pollan, food writer and garden sage, takes a closer look at three plant “drugs” humans use to alter our consciousness: opium,…