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Great House by Nichole Krauss

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police, one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take...

Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy, YA

Summary: Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the...

Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: The first thing you learn when you climb a tree is to hold on. Now it’s time for Harry to learn to let go… Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies...

Heads You Win by Jeffrey Archer, Richard Armitage

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia...

House by Frank Peretti

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Enter House – where you’ll find yourself thrown into a killer’s deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose…and the only way out is in. The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules...

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce #4) by Alan Bradley

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce – an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving – is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is...