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The 25th Hour   by David Benioff

The Acid Test  by Ross LaManna

Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

Antonio's Wife  by Jacqueline DeJohn

The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer

Changing Habits by Debbie Macomber

Circle of Grace by Penelope Stokes

Claire Marvel by John Burnham Schwartz

Clay's Quilt by Silas House

The Courage Tree by Diane Chamberlain

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Dance With Me by Luanne Rice

The Dogs of Babel  by Carolyn Parkhurst

Elm Creek Quilts Series by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Five People You Meet in Heaven    by Mitch Albom

Flashback by Nevada Barr

The Florabama Ladies Auxiliary & Sewing Circle by Lois Battle

The Game by Laurie R. King

Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope 

The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck 

 Hannah Coulter  by Wendell Berry

Her Father's House  by Belva Plain

Have You Seen Dawn? by Steven Saylor

Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple: An Andy Gammon Mystery.  Tempa Pagel 2/27/2007

Hey Nostradamus! By Douglas Coupland

Home to Harmony & Just Shy of Harmony by Phil Gulley

Home to Big Stone Gap  by Adriani Trigiani. 2/27/2007

In Plain Sight by Lorena McCourtney.3/16/2007

In this Mountain by Jan Karon

Jimmy's Girl  by Stephanie Gertler

Justice Hall  by Laurie R. King

King of Torts  by John Grisham

The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant

The Last Juror by John Grisham

The Last Promise by Richard Paul Evans

Legacy of Courage & Legacy of Love      by Lois Williams

Legacy of Faith by Lois Anne Williams

Love Walked In   by Marisa de los Santos.

Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani

Lucy  by Ellen Feldman

Lunch at the Piccadilly  by Clyde Edgerton

The March by E.L. Doctorow

Mattie  (available in Large Print) by Judy Alter

The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

A Miracle for St. Cecilia's by Katherine Valentine

A Morning in Eden:  by Anna Gilbert

Nights in Rodanthe  by Nicholas Sparks

Night Train to Lisbon by Emily Grayson

Not a Sparrow Falls by Linda Nichols

Old Town in the Green Groves by Cynthia Rylant

The Parting Glass  by Emilie Richards

Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler

The Photograph by Virginia Ellis

Quentins by Maeve Binchy

The Queen of the Big Time  by Adriana Trigiani

Redbird Christmas   Fannie Flagg

A Risk Worth Taking by Robin Pilcher

Safe Harbor  by Luanne Rice

Secret Life of Bees  by Sue Monk Kidd

Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon

Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts

The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

Standing in the Rainbow  by Fannie Flagg

 Still Life.  by Louise Penny2/27/2007

The Summer I Dared  by Barbara Delinsky

The Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens

A Tender Reed by  Teresa Slack

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

True Blue by Luanne Rice

Unveiling by Suzanne Wolfe

Voices by Janice Law

Warning Signs by Stephen White

The Wedding Dress by Virginia Ellis

A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

Wintering  by Kate Moses

 

Nonfiction Titles:
 A. B. Graham: County Schoolmaster and Extension Pioneer by Virginia E. and Robert W. McCormick

Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders  by Mary Pipher, Ph. D.

Anyone You Want Me to Be by John Douglas

Are You Hungry Dear  by Doris Roberts

The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy

Big Russ and Me, Father and Son by Tim Russert

The Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel

Braving Home  by Jake Halpern

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK Assassination by Gerald Posner

The Epidemic  by Robert Shaw, M.D.

Every Breath You Take:  by Ann Rule

Dear Senator by Essie Mae Washington

Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields  4/14/2006

Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson

Finding Betty Crocker by Susan Marks

Families Eating Together 2 book reviews

Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life by Adrian House

The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer

Halfway Home by Ronan Tynan

His Excellency by Joseph J. Ellis

I Only Say This Because I Love You by Deborah Tannen

If I Live to be One Hundred by  Neenah Ellis

The Inner Voice: The Making of A Singer by Renée Fleming

Inside the Kingdom, My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin

It Must Have Been Moonglow by Phyllis Greene

Judgment Ridge by D. Lehr & M. Zuckoff

The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World  by A. J. Jacobs 3/17/05

Learning A Living: A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding a Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia by Dale S. Brown

Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox

Maria Longworth by Rosa Angela Boehle

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

A Patriot's Handbook by Caroline Kennedy

Profiles Of Ohio Women, 1803-2003 by Jacqueline Jones Royster

Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin by David Evanier

The Search For Major Plagge  by Michael Good 9/16/05

Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code by Dan Burstein (editor)

Sisters : Nuns and the Making of America by John J. Fialka

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis

Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas and Micah Sparks

'Tis Herself by Maureen O’Hara

 To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose

To Be A Princess By Hugh Brewster and Laurie Coulter

To The Elephant Graveyard by Tarquin Hall

The Wisdom of Big Bird by Caroll Spinney

The Wright Sister  by  Richard Maurer

Walking to Vermont by Christopher A. Wren

Most of these reviews have previously appeared in the Highland County Sun Newspaper or the Times Gazette.

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