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Tigers in Red Weather

Author: Liza Klaussmann

Review by: PacaLipstick Gramma, Appleton Public Library

The comparison to F. Scott Fitzgerald made this sound so promising. If we could do half stars, my rating would be 1.5.

Nick and her cousin, Helena, grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, in the house known as Tiger House.  But during World War II, and up until...
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River town : two years on the Yangtze

Author: Peter Hessler

Review by: Helene, Scandinavia Public Library

Peter Hessler's account of his 2-year stint with the Peace Corps in Fulong, a city of 200,000 in Sichuan China is a gem. Thanks to him, we catch a glimpse of a China rarely studied. Far from the coast, near the 3-Gorge Dam, Fulong seldom sees a waiguoren, a foreigner. Hessler is as curious of the Chinese as...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Review by: lindapingel, Shiocton Public Library

Ms. Kingsolver has written a few novels. I had read her novel "The Bean Tree". She has won National Humanities Award from her writings.

I thought the "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" was rich with information on our food supply.  Researching the foods sold in the supermarkets in the United...
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Against The Ruins

Author: Linda Lightsey Rice

Review by: PacaLipstick Gramma, Appleton Public Library

I debated about how to rate this book, but decided it was worth 2 stars.

The entire book was almost lyrical in the writing, but at times I found it distracting and almost "too flowery". The author was so descriptive of the environment and buildings that I could visualize the settings. For this alone I gave...
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and The Fall of Everyone Else

Author: Chrystia Freeland

Review by: Helene, Scandinavia Public Library

Acknowledging economic differences does not make for polite conversation and the subject is seldom brought up. Chrystia Freeland sets about to change that: Statistics in hand, the author charts the extraordinary gains made by the top 1% of the population so reviled by the Occupy Movement. In...
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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc

Author: Nancy Goldstone

Review by: Helene, Scandinavia Public Library

Goldstone stunningly pairs two women unlikely to ever meet in the same period or at court: Joan of Arc, the simple farm girl from Domremy and Yolande of Aragon, Charles VII's mother-in-law. The first woman is as iconic as the second is unknown to the general public and yet their collaboration may well have...
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The Forgotten Garden

Author: Kate Morton

Review by: Helene, Scandinavia Public Library

Spanning two continents and two centuries, Forgotten Garden tethers readers to the power of individual histories and the quest for roots and meaning. An Australian embittered woman cannot form deep attachment after discovering that her parents are not her biological parents. Her search for her parentage is posthumously assisted by her...
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Enchantments

Author: Kathryn Harrison

Review by: Emily160, Appleton Public Library

Writing a novel that touches on any aspect of the Romanovs' story must be a daunting challenge for an author.  Nicholas and Alexandra and Anastasia offer such entrancing glimpses into a lost world.  With ornate settings, tragedy of such unfathomable intensity, and real characters more...
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The Lost Saints of Tennessee

Author: Amy Franklin-Willis

Review by: PacaLipstick Gramma, Appleton Public Library

I would rather have rated this a 4.5, but thought 4 stars was too low. With that being said . . .

Ezekiel "Zeke" Cooper, Clayton, Tennessee, at his 25 year class reunion, ponders his life. How could the the smart boy with a full scholarship to the University of Virginia, end up living like this?...
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Fly Away

Author: Kristin Hannah

Review by: PacaLipstick Gramma, Appleton Public Library

Sometimes there should not be sequels to books. This was one of them.

What did I like about the book? It finally ended! Maybe a little that Cloud aka Dorothy had some redemption.

The first 300 pages just dragged on and on and on and forever. Finally, a real story was...