Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Monday, August 24
A quest for friendship
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Finding new friends is a challenge for older people – after children have grown, marriages have ended, and jobs and homes are downsized. In...
Tuesday, August 4
Lessons in life
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus is set during the 1960s, a decade of transition, as threatened and insecure men are intent on putting...
Wednesday, July 8
Regret
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In Her One Regret by Donna Freitas, a woman new to motherhood disappears from a parking lot, her baby left behind. Her best friend, Michel...
Monday, June 15
Ashland
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Carolyn grows up fatherless and relatively poor in Ashland, a small community in rural New Hampshire, and title of the debut novel by Dan Si...
Friday, May 15
1929
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Similarities between the1920s' economy and today's are "remarkable," suggests journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in 1929 – Insi...
Thursday, January 22
Foster
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Foster by Claire Keegan is a compact book, sharp like a punch to the gut, about children's lack of control in this world and a summer ...
Wednesday, January 7
Abuse
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Four people, strangers, are connected via serial pedophiles, or as the book jacket of The Elements by John Boyne suggests: an enabler, an...
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