Book Review: In CLOVER Peach Trees Boom and Yellow Jackets Sting

Dori Sanders, Clover (New York: Fawcett Columbine by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990) None of the four-leaf variety's luck rubbed off on poor little 10-year-old Clover Hill, the main...

Book Review: Lewis Nordan's MUSIC OF THE SWAMP

Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp, Algonquin Books, 191 pages, $15.95. Publication date: Sept. 15, 1991. Music serves as both a distraction from and an enhancer of life. In the car, we turn on our radio to...

Book Review: Somerset Homecoming

Slavery. Blacks and whites have both continued to respond to that word with shame and embarrassment. But Dorothy Spruill Redford has purged herself of those feelings and offers readers the same opportunity to...

Two Great Books for Kids

Book Review: A CURE FOR DREAMS: the cure for Mother's Day blues

Gibbons, Kaye. A Cure for Dreams (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991) Kaye Gibbons of Raleigh, NC presents a beautiful look at mother-daughter relationships in A Cure For Dreams, her third novel, and women...