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THE CONFESSION OF EDWARD DAY by Valerie Martin

With THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY, the Orange Prize award winning author Valerie Martin has created an engrossing fictional memoir. The title character guides the reader through his adventures as he strives for professional success on the stage in New York, while also fighting his personal demons.

September 30, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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LOOKING AFTER PIGEON by Maud Carol Markson

LOOKING AFTER PIGEON transports the reader to the Jersey shore in the mid-seventies, with the precocious five-year old Pigeon as narrator and tour guide. fter their father walks out, their mother, Joan, moves Pigeon and her older siblings Robin and Dove to their uncle Edward’s house in an un-named New Jersey beach town.

September 13, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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LOOK AGAIN by Lisa Scottoline

“Ellen couldn’t stop looking at the white card, which read HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHILD? The resemblance between the boy in the photo and her son was uncanny. They had the same wide-set eyes, smallish nose, and lopsided grin. Maybe it was the lighting on the porch…. She held the photo closer, but came to the same conclusion. The boys could have been twins.”

April 27, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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