Marta's Reading Insight
| Marta's Reading InSight | number 7 |  |
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Have you noticed how a story is enhanced when the setting is familiar to you? Authors, of course, use the details they observe and when those details have been a part of our lives too, we feel that twinge of recognition and an added impetus to find out what will happen right there where we have spent some of our hours.
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City of Light by Lauren Belfer, 1999 |
1901 in Buffalo, New York, a place of immense wealth and sophistication. The massive hydro-electric development of Niagara Falls powers the city of light in which this historical drama unfolds. |
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Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman, 1987 |
The annual festival of lanterns on Martha's Vineyard is the magical setting for a story of marriage, passions, yearning, sin, and redemption. Unforgettable. |
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Saint Maybe by Ann Tyler, 1991 |
Ian is the Saint, a Baltimore teenager in 1965 convinced that he has caused his brother's death, trying to atone with the support of a group of a store-front religious fanatics. |
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4. Peachtree
Road |
The drama of star-crossed cousins, whose love-hate relationships is set in Atlanta, as it grows from sleepy town to thriving metropolis. |
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5. Floating
Dragon by Peter Straub, 1983 |
Horror and fantasy right here in Westport written while the author lived here. You will never again look at Beachside, Greens Farms and Burying Hill Beach with the same eyes. |
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The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, 1990 |
A dynasty of witches given to the dark arts, but haunted themselves by evil. They go from and return to the author's home town of lush New Orleans, as the story is told across time and place. |
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich, 1994 |
Introducing Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter - a product of blue-collar Trenton embarking on the first of her dangerous missions to catch a crook. |
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Marta Campbell, Head of Collection Management |  |
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