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Lois Wickstrom Author Of Dream-Shifter

From Lois' 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Science teacher Swimmer Gardener Exercise junky Reader

Lois' 3 favorite reads in 2024

Lois Wickstrom Why Lois loves this book

I loved the idea that our protagonist, Tig, decides to interview the man who killed her grandfather in order to learn more about him, so she can paint his picture evocatively. The more she learns about the woman who killed him, the more the reader comes to care about both of them.

By Abigail Rose-Marie ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Moonflowers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generations of women who depended on each other to survive.

Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he's a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.

Still confined to a state institution,…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Susan E. Wadds Author Of What the Living Do

From Susan's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Amherst Writers Certified Facilitator Rebalancing Massage Therapist Traveller Yoga lover Nature lover

Susan's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Susan E. Wadds Why Susan loves this book

I found this to be the most unique “time travel” exploration I’ve ever read. It was a head-scratcher with a very satisfying end.

By Scott Alexander Howard ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Other Valley as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'Astonishingly brilliant. My book of the year.' Liz Nugent, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond

For fans of Emily St John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exhilarating novel about an isolated town neighboured by its own past and future, and a young girl who faces an impossible choice...

Would you sacrifice the future for love?

Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on an elite council that decides who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it's twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an…


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