Karen Cullotta
Content by Karen Cullotta
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Sibling rivalry, the bane of many a family, never reared its ugly head for brother and sister Antoine and Melanie Rey.
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There have always been novels that seem destined for the silver screen, their literary narratives inhabited by characters so vividly alive, they almost beg for a screenplay to set them free.
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Never mind that you should not judge a book by its cover: I must confess to panicking when I glimpsed the shiny black Louboutin stiletto embellishing Erin Duffy’s debut novel Bond Gir
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On a bleak January night, Margaret Quinn opens her front door to a nine-year-old stranger offering neither a plausible alibi, nor an apology for the intrusion.
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In her debut novel, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R., author Carole DeSanti has crafted an evocative story of a young woman’s courageous and reckless coming of age
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For readers who savor the culinary charms of the Food Network's Giada De Laurentiis, Paula Deen and the irrepressible Emeril, meeting the heroine of Kate Jacobs' new novel Comfort Food
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In The Girl Who Chased the Moon, an elderly giant visits his clothes dryer for messages from beyond, moody wallpaper switches patterns and the town’s most privileged family decl
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For readers hopelessly smitten by Southern writers, North Carolina native Sarah Addison Allen's Garden Spells should arrive with a gentle warning: Proceed with caution once you start readin
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Readers will savor the bittersweet taste of first love with a twist of darkness in Tess Callahan’s debut novel. After all, these tortured souls are kissing cousins—literally.
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In Kissing Games of the World, single mother Jamie McClintock has neither the desire nor the time for romance.
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In Kissing Games of the World, single mother Jamie McClintock has neither the desire nor the time for romance.
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In Sarah Dunant’s latest novel, the Bard’s “get thee to a nunnery” is an apt description of the destiny of 120 young women, for whom Ophelia-esque despair lurks behind the w
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Motherhood, in all its magical and messy incarnations, is at the heart of Lisa Tucker’s The Winters In Bloom, a story that skates gracefully amid wonder, terror and redemptio
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Like many a literary gumshoe before him, private investigator Ray Lovell has a weakness for women, strong liquor and hard-luck tales. Thus, the tortured hero of Stef Penney’s luminous second novel, The Invisible Ones, finds himself swept up in the mystery and mayhem of a pack of traveling Gypsies . . .
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Alice Hoffman aficionados are well acquainted with the novelist's obsession with the magical, mystical moods of Mother Nature—the blackbird with a broken heart, the river with a secret, the
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For poetry-spouting bachelor lawyer James Buster Aloysius Holcombe Jr., even the finest Southern woman is no competition for his beloved Georgia hometown.
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Readers who shun historical fiction, dismissing the genre as a literary oxymoron, be forewarned: Rita Charbonnier's novel, Mozart's Sister, transcends all the tired stereotypes, winning over e
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True to its title, Martha Tod Dudman's new novel Black Olives is a salty and succulent treat, less than 200 tasty pages that are likely to be devoured in a single gulp—or, should I
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For readers eager to escape their humdrum existence via fiction immersed in magic, mysticism and myth, The Palace of Illusions is sure to please.
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The bibliography tucked at the tail end of Philippa Gregory's The Other Queen might come as a surprise to those who assume that only nonfiction writers are rooted to the rigors of schola
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The bibliography tucked at the tail end of Philippa Gregory's The Other Queen might come as a surprise to those who assume that only nonfiction writers are rooted to the rigors of schola
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In The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, Margaret Mascarenhas’ American debut, the feminine mystique is juxtaposed with revolutionary chaos in the remote rural villages of Venezuela.
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he bibliography tucked at the tail end of Philippa Gregory's The Other Queen might come as a surprise to those who assume that only nonfiction writers are rooted to the rigors of scholarly r
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For the self-absorbed, albeit, likable heroine of Catherine Schine's new novel, The Evolution of Jane, the rites of friendship can be summed up as survival of the fittest.
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For legions of readers awaiting a reunion with their friends from the best - selling novel The Friday Night Knitting Club, novelist Kate Jacobs' warmhearted sequel, Knit Two, is c
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Adriana Trigiani’s latest novel, The Shoemaker’s Wife, is sure to resonate with those of us lucky enough to have spent our childhoods listening to our grandparents&rsqu
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