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Ruta Sepetys
Fox Cities Reads 2018 Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
by, Jill Swenson
February 20, 2018

It is a privilege to serve on the board of the Fox Cities Book Festival and it is with great excitement I can share the news about the 2018 selection for the Fox Cities Reads. Each year one book brings together the communities of the Fox Cities. This year that one book is Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. In 1945, World War II… [Read More]

Filed Under: Death in the Baltic, Fox Cities Book Festival, Fox Cities Reads, Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea, WIlhelm Gustloff, WWII
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5 Books to Read This Summer Before They Hit the Big Screen
by, Jill Swenson
July 5, 2016

1)  Emma Donoghue, Frog Music: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, April 2014) From the author of the bestselling novel, Room, Emma Donaghue penned this novel based in San Francisco during the summer of 1897 in which the city suffered a smallpox epidemic and a record-breaking heat wave.  The story begins when a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead through the window of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amy Strewart, Between Shades of Gray, Chasing Portraits, Editor of Genius, Elizabeth Rynecki, Emma Donoghue, Frog Music, Girl Waits with Gun, Max Perkins, Ruta Sepetys, Scott Berg
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