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2019: #35 – Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

I thought this was a solid read that was maybe a bit over-hyped. Also, if you have difficulty reading about abused children, this may not be for you. The story starts out in 1952 with 6-year-old Kya watching her mother walk away, never to return. Before long, the rest of her siblings follow, escaping the wrath of their ne’er-do-well drunkard father. Kya is abandoned by

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review women's fiction 

2017: #1 – With Love From the Inside (Angela Pisel)

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Sophie has a secret, one that her doctor husband and fancy friends would never guess. Seventeen years ago, Sophie’s mother Grace killed Sophie’s baby brother, and she now sits on death row. This book follows the stretch of time between Grace and Sophie finding out what her execution date is and that date. You get alternating view points, from Sophie’s point of view and through

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