A Reliable Wife Author: Robert Goolrick Genre: Fiction Format: Paperback Publisher: Algonquin Press Release Date: 1-26-10 Catherine Land answered Ralph Truitt’s add for “a reliable wife” and found herself o a train to an isolated town in Wisconsin. Her plan was to poison him slowly and become a wealthy widow, but Ralph had a plan […]
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Author: Aimee Bender Category: Fiction Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 6-1-10 On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can […]
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Fiction Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 3-22-11 It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s […]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
In the small town where I grew up, there was one movie theater with two screens. One of the screens was the standard size and the other was very small, and upstairs. The bathrooms were odd, too. As you went into the little alcove where the doors were, there were actually two identical entrances, although […]