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Book Review: The Vanishing Half: a novel by Brit Bennett
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. Happy New Year!…
Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. It has been…
Book Review: Phage by Mark Tamplin
THIS POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS, IF YOU PURCHASE SOMETHING USING THE LINK I WILL RECEIVE A COMMISSION. THAT COMMISSION GOES TOWARDS MAINTAINING MY BLOG. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Title: Phage Author: Mark Tamplin Genre: Suspense Publisher: Mark Tamplin Release Date: 12 September 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 474 ABOUT THE BOOK {from…
The Weird Sisters: A Novel By Eleanor Brown {Book Review}
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK) Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can’t solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father ~ a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse…
A Secret Kept A Novel by Tatiana de Rosnay {Book Review}
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE BOOK) This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarah’s Key, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of past secret to change everything in the present. It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a brother and sister recapturing…
Book Tour: The Tehran Initiative by Joel C. Rosenberg
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE INSIDE JACKET) IS IT FICTION, OR IS IT REAL? The world is on the brink of disaster. Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiah ~ known as the Twelfth Imam ~ has arrived on earth. Israeli leaders fear Tehran,…
Book Tour: Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK) Louis XIV is one of the best~known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man ~ the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a young…
Classic Book Review: Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK) When it first appeared in 1956, Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, and made its young author one of the most talked about people in America. Metalious’s debut novel ~ which topped the best seller lists…
Book Review: Rooms: A Novel by James L. Rubart
“What would you find if you walked into the rooms of your soul?” Micah literally finds out when he inherits a home built especially for him by his great uncle, Archie. Micah is a software tycoon who has it all ~ fame, fortune, and a beautiful girlfriend who loves him, yet something is missing… And…