Nora Roberts, “High Noon”
How does a person know the right words to say? Words that provide comfort and relief, words that are a balm to a huge, gaping emotional wound? It is just by being an active listener? By listening for...
View ArticleCatherine Coulter, “Point Blank”
A weekend away from the job seemed simple enough. Special Agent Ruth Warnecki of the FBI planned to escape the hustle and bustle of the Beltway and drive deep into the Virginia forest to indulge her...
View ArticleKhaled Hosseini, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
It’s a strange question: why, when life is at its most tragic, is it also at its most beautiful? Perhaps it’s the ugliness and brutality of tragedy that exposes, even magnifies the beauty that would...
View ArticleDonna Tartt, “The Goldfinch”
Funny how one incident, one disaster can irrevocably change a person’s life. For Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker who’s just beginning to push at rules and restrictions, a trip to the Metropolitan...
View ArticleSue Grafton, E Is for Evidence
Kinsey Millhone’s problems started with the $5,000. The money wasn’t hers, and though notoriously frugal, she isn’t entirely amoral (though she does enjoy a good B&E). Irritated, she tries to fix...
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