A poignant reflection on parental absence and how deep a wound can go What does it do to a man to be raised without a father? For some, it leaves them feeling lost forever, waiting for something that won’t return and searching for it in all the wrong places. For others, it becomes the catalyst […]
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A twenty-two-year-old drama student goes to a brunch meeting at a producer’s house in the Hollywood Hills. Her agent set it up. It turns out there are no other actors there. She gets out, eventually, and comes back and sits at a kitchen table with two women she barely knows and explains what he did […]
A man’s bus home is cancelled, so he crosses the road for a pint. A colleague spots him and waves him over to join her and two friends. He does not know them and does not much want to, but refusing would be awkward, so he sits. Twenty minutes later one of them makes a […]
Synopsis: In Crossingsbrook Georgians: the crossingsbrook series prequel, the back-story is told to the series, explaining how the Reverend and Clara James met, how Dr. Walton and Lady Greenfield met, the impacts of war and loss on Victor’s youth and young adulthood, the childhood friendship of Beatrice and Clara, and Beatrice’s experiences raising children that were […]
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Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia
A puppeteer is booked on a live variety show for four minutes of harmless nonsense with a blue bird on her arm. A musician is on the same bill. Something goes wrong on air, the two of them end up improvising their way out of it, and the whole thing is over in a matter […]
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Best Revolutionary War books
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Best Revolutionary War novels
Fiction that puts the reader inside the Revolution rather than just explaining it. Some links on this page are affiliate… The post Best Revolutionary War novels appeared first on She Reads Everything.
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Bitter Honey by Yona Katz
This suspenseful slice-of-life second-chance love story explores grief, loss, and taking down a mob boss. “My best friend and first love who drowned fifteen years ago is alive and works for a criminal businessman?” When Christopher does a quick favor for a fellow attorney by attending a hearing in his place, it’s supposed to be […]
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Before You Were Anne by Emiko Jean
A young woman stands in the frozen-food aisle of a small Idaho grocery store with an empty basket and a twenty-dollar bill going limp in her hand. She has been in the country a matter of weeks. She has a fiancé who has taken her passport, a bruise the size of a chrysanthemum across her […]
Mrs. Earline Baker arrives for her weekly reading in her Sunday best, plum nails, silver curls fresh from the beauty shop, and a palm-shaped bruise across one cheek. It is the second one in two months. Nobody mentions it. The great-aunt of the house sends the teenage reader out on an errand, then explains to […]