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Open the Door to V.E. Schwab’s “Gallant,” an Eerily Magical Homecoming

Olivia Prior knows hardly anything about her family or where she came from. Raised at the Merilance School for Independent Girls, the only link she has to anyone outside its walls is her mother’s journal — a slim, worn volume that offers very few answers as she watches her mother’s…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 2, 2022

Fiction Young Adult

Faith and Friendship Take the Wheel in Lindsay Schuster’s YA Novel “Prosper”

There is a well-known saying that you can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. This certainly rings true in the YA novel, Prosper by Lindsay Schuster (book one of the Prosper Series, which includes the subsequent books Redeemed and Journey). Kaila, Amy, Jenny and Stephanie are longtime…

Barbara WilkovMay 3, 2021

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Circumstance Threatens A Man’s Character Even as His “Unyielding Destiny” Unfolds

“A swift, thoughtful thriller … as fast-paced as it is philosophical. … Great for fans of Leonardo Sciascia, Tod Goldberg’s Gangsterland. … Grittily realistic.” —BookLife —∞— The average person might not realize that in the 1960s, some 300 civilians lived on the maximum-security federal prison known as Alcatraz, in the waters off…

Jim AlkonMarch 8, 2022

Fiction

A Teen Crosses the Country to Start Anew in the Coming-of-Age “Ryder Stephens”

A 13-year-old runaway finds a new home and faces her traumatic past in Ryder Stephens (SBC Publishing House) by Veronica Ventura, a moving story of loss, love and healing. It’s the day after Christmas, and Ryder has lost everything — her mother is dead, her father has chosen a Vegas…

Cynthia ConradJuly 7, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Dragon Springs Road,” Orphan’s Tale

In Dragon Springs Road (William Morrow Paperbacks), Janie Chang constructs a magical, rich and compelling historical novel set in the early twentieth-century about Jialing, a girl of Eurasian descent, as she navigates her life as an orphan near Shanghai, China. The Western Residence of Dragon Springs Road is the place Jialing…

Tif MarceloSeptember 27, 2018

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Nightmares Follow Her Halfway Around the World in “My Sweet Girl”

My hands were trembling slightly… I hate how they do that when I’m angry. I hate it when I’m angry. It makes it hard to think straight. And I needed to think straight right now. I couldn’t have that cunning, two-faced soon-to-be-ex-roommate of mine getting in my head … I…

Neil NyrenAugust 27, 2021

Open the Door to V.E. Schwab’s “Gallant,” an Eerily Magical Homecoming

Faith and Friendship Take the Wheel in Lindsay Schuster’s YA Novel “Prosper”

Circumstance Threatens A Man’s Character Even as His “Unyielding Destiny” Unfolds

A Teen Crosses the Country to Start Anew in the Coming-of-Age “Ryder Stephens”

Tall Poppy Review: “Dragon Springs Road,” Orphan’s Tale

Nightmares Follow Her Halfway Around the World in “My Sweet Girl”

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