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California Dreaming

Beautifully Written Debut Novel Author: Noa Silver Sometimes, whether we like it or not, our reading time gets disrupted. We start a book, are steaming right along, and something comes along that makes us put it down. In my world, that can be the death knell for that book. I’ll find myself forgetting who the characters are and where I was in their story. 90% of the time, I do not finish those books. Noa Silver’s debut novel California Dreaming lives in the rarefied air of that other 10%. This is the story of Elena, an idealistic young woman setting [...]

2024-06-21T13:48:09-07:00June 21st, 2024|Tags: |

Fortune Teller’s Prophecy, The

From Chaos to Calling Author: Lally Pia As a child, a Sri Lankan priest foretold that Lally would be “a doctor of doctors.” The prophecy was a troublesome one, half burden and half embarrassment. Add to this the stress of being the oldest child, the one with the dubious honor of being the first to set an example, to make something of herself, to follow the rules of culture and the rules for a woman. From the beginning of The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy, Lally’s path hardly seemed star studded. If anything, her destiny appeared to be one of frustration and bad [...]

2024-03-11T08:33:19-07:00March 10th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Molten Death

Molten Death book cover Trouble in Paradise Author: Leslie Karst Valerie and Kristen, a retired couple, are ostensibly visiting a friend in Hawaii to celebrate Valerie’s sixtieth birthday and catch some waves. But underneath it all, this is a trip intended to heal trauma. Valerie doesn’t know what to make of the world after her brother’s sudden, fiery death in a car accident; Valerie’s wife, Kristen, thinks that the big island is the perfect place to grieve and find comfort. That plan backfires when a feisty Valerie sees a leg disappearing in a lava flow and begins her [...]

2024-03-11T08:19:34-07:00March 8th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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