Blogs in December 2022

Künstlers in Paradise 14th December 2022

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...

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Hello Beautiful 14th December 2022

A rich, compassionate tale of four sisters and the love affair that fractures their family Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are seen as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Italian-American neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the...

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The Half Moon 14th December 2022

There are two sides to every story – and every marriage in crisis . . . Malcolm, bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar, and when his boss finally retires, he seizes his chance....

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Out of Ireland: A Novel 12th December 2022

In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed...

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Less Than A Treason 8th December 2022

Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his...

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