READING NATION MAGAZINE JUNE 2021

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INTERNATIONAL PULPWOOD QUEEN AND TIMBER GUY BOOK CLUB

Sharp as a Serpent's Tooth: Eva and Other Stories by Mandy Haynes You'll meet Eva, the young daughter of traveling Pentecostal preachers, who catches snakes while her parents hide behind the bible and a large wooden crate. Eva's life changes when she makes her first friend and realizes there is more to life than fear. In Plans for Sweet Lorraine, you'll meet Lorraine's mama, Cordelia a fiery red-head with a temper to match, and a mind as sharp as the sting from a leather strap. She'll do anything to keep her daughter safe. Even if she has to beat the devil himself. Laurel, the young girl in The Day I Threw the Rock has no idea that she saved someone's life, or that she may have killed someone to do it. She just knows that she should be allowed to wear overalls and play ball like the boys. Junebug Fischer is ready to set the record straight and let you know what really happened the summer she turned fifteen. It's true, she killed someone, but she never killed nobody on purpose. That was purely accidental. When Charlotte's world is turned upside down, her aunt is there to put it back on its axis. Charlotte learns that everything she's been told about her long lost aunt has been a lie, and her aunt teaches her many important lessons. The most important lesson is forgiveness. Cussing Snakes and Candy Cigarettes is proof that there's magic all around us, all we have to do is open our hearts and minds. 20

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Where Stories and Storytellers Flourish by Julie Cantrell

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pages 8-11

If Our Pets Could Talk

1min
pages 64-65

A Season in Lights: A Novel in Three Acts by Gregory Erich Phillips

1min
page 38

Copper, Iron, and Clay: A Smith’s Journey by Sara Dahmen

1min
page 29

Boop and Eve’s Road Trip: A Novel by Mary

1min
page 37

Crescent City Sin by Nola Nash

1min
page 30

What Lies Ahead by Marci Henna

1min
page 31

The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton by Richard Fifield

1min
page 19

What’s Not Said by Valerie Taylor

1min
page 39

Sharp as a Serpent's Tooth: Eva and Other Stories by Mandy Haynes

1min
page 20

Guesthouse for Ganesha by Judith Teitelman

1min
pages 73-74

The Last Blue: A Novel by Isla Morley

2min
pages 34-35

Come Sunday: A Novel by Isla Morley

1min
pages 26-27

The Gumbeaux Sistahs by Jax Frey

1min
pages 24-25

Among the Maasai: A Memoir by Juliet Cutler

1min
pages 16-17

THE MADWOMAN OF PREACHER'S COVE by Joy Ross Davis

1min
pages 6-7

QL 4 by Jim Garrison

1min
pages 2-3

Meet Marilyn

1min
pages 64-65

Uncle Wilkensack

2min
pages 20, 55, 60-61

Meet Kathy L. Murphy

2min
pages 1, 68-69

Authors and Their Art

2min
pages 54-57

THE LITTLE GIRL WHO READ

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pages 1, 4-5, 10-11, 20-21, 30-31, 40, 47, 50, 56-57, 70
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