Blogs in October 2020

Michigan Murders 30th October 2020

Between July 1967 and July 1969, seven sexual murders were committed in Michigan with horrifying fury. There were no clues. Then, almost by accident, there was a break in the case. The suspect–a young, quiet, all-American boy! True-crime reading...

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The Feast of Love 30th October 2020

The Feast of Love is a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined A Midsummer Night’s Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out...

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On Green Dolphin Street 30th October 2020

The bestselling author of “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks’...

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Ursula, Under 30th October 2020

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft–the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she...

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Bud, Not Buddy 30th October 2020

It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He’s...

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