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  The Osage nation of Native Americans, like other tribes were pushed from their traditional lands by the Western expansion of settlers.  They eventually were pushed into Oklahoma onto poor l...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/killers-of-flower-moon-by-david-grann.html

  Demming Guo and his mother Polly don't have much time together.  Polly came to the United States undocumented and had Demming there, making him a citizen.  But she sent him back to Chin...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-leavers-by-lisa-ko.html

  On the first night Sean and Gina leave their baby, Nike, with a babysitter, Gina is killed in their apartment.  Sean was there but knocked out.  The police have never solved the case, even...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/scarecrow-has-gun-by-michael-paul.html

  Riptide, Oregon is a small Oregon fishing town, the kind of town where kids can't wait to leave.  It is further depressed by a recent car wreck that killed two women.  One was the sheriff'...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-mercy-of-tide-by-keith-rossen.html

  Amelia Emmet is headed back to work after a year away.   She is a sociology professor at a private college in Chicago but last year has not been her finest.  She broke up with her long...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-black-hour-by-lori-rader-day.html

  Millie is in a bad place.  The love of her life, Enzo, has moved back to Italy to take care of his sick mother with no idea when and if he will return.  She has been dating Brock, a wealthy...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-housemaids-secret-by-freida-mcfadden.html

  The last thing Deputy Sheriff Brynn McKenzie wants is a phone call calling her back to duty when she's finally made it home.  But there was a 911 call at the lake and she is the closest.  ...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-bodies-left-behind-by-jeffery-deaver.html

  Two men come from abroad to the United States in the early 1800s.  Olivier is the son of French aristocrats with all the snobbery that entails.  Parrot is a servant who has been sent to...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/parrot-olivier-in-america-by-peter-carey.html

  This anthology of nine stories was published in 2009.  My favorite story was Watershed where a woman finds her childhood friend when she returns to her hometown for a visit and they fall in...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/delicate-edible-birds-by-lauren-groff.html

  The Shaw family is a large farming family.  There are seven children.  The father is having a hard time farming and over the years he sells off more and more of the land.  There are two h...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/chorus-by-rebecca-kauffman.html

  Elsa is seven, almost eight.  She is different from most of the kids at school so she is bullied.  Her best friend is her grandmother who loves her more than anyone else in the world. ...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/my-grandmother-asked-me-to-tell-you.html

  Paul Edgecombe is the boss of the Green Mile which is the nickname at Cold Mountain Penitentiary for Death Row.  He has escorted more prisoners to the electric chair than anyone and while h...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-green-mile-by-stephen-king.html

  They met in college.  Each of them had come to college thinking they wouldn't fit in, as they hadn't fit in growing up.  But they found each other and formed a group that would have lifelo...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/last-exit-by-max-gladstone.html

  Many would consider Miles Singer a lucky man.  He is born into one of the hundred families of great wealth and his father is the Queen's closest advisor.  But Miles is not lucky.  He w...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/witchmark-by-cl-polk.html

  Private detective Jackson Brodie is surrounded by missing or killed young women as he ponders the meaning of being a father and as his ex-wife threatens to take his eight year old daughte...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/case-histories-by-kate-atkinson.html

  In this sixteenth novel of the DCI Alan Banks series, two murders are investigated.  Thirty years ago, a young girl was found stabbed and left in a sleeping bag at one of the first Woodstoc...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/piece-of-my-heart-by-peter-robinson.html

  Lily Owens is at loose ends when she realizes after graduating with a degree in law that she has no interest in it.  She knows she doesn't want to be back home with her parents as that h...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/civilisation-francaise-by-mary-fleming.html

  Kostos and Defne are teenagers in love.  That would be fine except for one thing.  They live on Cyprus where Kostos is Greek and Defne is Turkish, meaning that their parents will never acc...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-island-of-missing-trees-by-elif.html

  Things aren't going that well for private investigator Holly Gibney at the Finders and Keepers investigative agency.  Covid has shut most things down and Holly's overbearing mother has just...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/holly-by-stephen-king.html

  This anthology of nine stories is by Elizabeth McCracken, who is known for her gentle and offbeat writing.  There is a story about a son whose mother was in a circus sideshow as she was born...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/heres-your-hat-whats-your-hurry-by.html

  A mass shooting has occurred in one of the wealthiest high schools in Sweden.  Three students and a teacher are dead.  Maja Norberg is arrested.  One of the dead is her best friend and...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/quicksand-by-malin-persson-giolito.html

  Cliff wants to kill his former boss, who mentally pushed two of Cliff's friends to their deaths and made Cliff's name mud in his industry.  Doria wants to kill the head of her studio who is...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/murder-your-employer-by-rupert-holmes.html

  After coving a press conference for the announcement of a new commercial and shopping project in an area full of abandoned warehouses and some small shops, journalist Lisa Jamison has a s...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/never-broken-by-lori-duffy-foster.html

  In this fifteenth book in the DCI Alan Banks series, Banks is on leave when he gets a strange call.  His brother, Roy has called and asked Banks to call him back, saying it could be a matte...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/strange-affair-by-peter-robinson.html

  William Buelow Gould was a criminal, he would agree.  His crimes were mostly minor ones, forgeries and other cons.  But he was sent to Australia and after another crime, sentenced to the wo...

https://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/goulds-book-of-fish-by-richard-flanagan.html