Ellen Akins
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Read the book before you watch the Nicole Kidman TV series ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’
FICTION: (Actually, she has bigger problems than money ...)
June 3, 2024
What can shipwrecks tell us? New book says: Pretty much everything.
NONFICTION: Writer and diver David Gibbins explored them for his unique take on world history.
April 11, 2024
‘Hard by a Great Forest’ is a ‘spellbinding’ novel about a separated family
FICTION: The break-up of the Soviet Union parts them in this debut from Leo Vardiashvili.
January 25, 2024
A YouTube celebrity panics when her star/child disappears in novel 'Kids Run the Show'
FICTION: Questions of authenticity abound in tale of motherhood and online fame.
December 7, 2023
Frankie is pregnant and her best friend is marrying her dad in 'Very Inconvenient Scandal'
FICTION: "Deep End of the Ocean" writer Jacquelyn Mitchard returns with tons of family melodrama.
November 8, 2023
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A mother and child desperately search for shelter after the Civil War in 'Night Watch'
FICTION: The chaos of war is reflected in the lives of Jayne Anne Phillips' memorable characters.
September 12, 2023
Review: A professor and hapless students visit London in 'The English Experience.' What could go wrong?
FICTION: University of Minnesota professor Julie Schumacher concludes her comic trilogy, set in academia.
August 8, 2023
Review: In 1913, a young woman fights for the right to study at Oxford in 'The Bookbinder'
FICTION: An "original, complicated" Brit is at the center of Pip Williams' follow-up to "The Dictionary of Lost Words."
July 27, 2023
Review: At the end of a relationship, a German woman struggles to make sense of it
FICTION: "Kairos" finds main character Katharina sifting through memorabilia, hunting for answers.
June 2, 2023
Review: 'The Covenant of Water,' by Abraham Verghese
FICTION: In this intimate, epic novel, three generations in a South Indian family live under a watery curse.
April 28, 2023
Review: 'The Trackers,' by Charles Frazier
FICTION: A journey through Depression-era America in search of a missing woman and the truth about her mysterious past.
April 21, 2023
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