Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Tuesday, September 12
Trust
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Yellowface by R.F. Kuang is a provocative examination of race relations and career ambitions in the publishing industry that lead to ruth...
Friday, September 1
Battles at home
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Only the Beautiful , by Susan Meissner, begins in 1938 with Roseanne Maras, a caretaker’s daughter at a Sonoma Valley vineyard who sees col...
Tuesday, August 8
Protection
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South Boston prepares for school busing in summer 1974, the setting for Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane. The neighborhood is poor, tight and...
Thursday, August 3
Resilience
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A child can develop resilience despite domestic violence, neglect and abandonment, poverty and inequality. In Hang the Moon by Jeannette Wa...
Thursday, July 20
Predator or prey
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Elinor De Witt in The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear lives a quiet life, retired after volunteering for the resistance effort in Belgi...
Thursday, July 13
Weeds
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Two women document flora of the Colosseum in Rome, one in 1854 and the other in 2018 in The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith . The first toi...
Thursday, July 6
Shame
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Social media allows individuals to explore feelings about unwanted behavior in both themselves and others. In Society of Shame by Jane Ro...
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