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2024-11-19

  Martin's Must-Reads: "The Frozen River"

“The body floats downstream. But it is late November, and the Kennebec River is starting to freeze, large chunks of ice swirling and tumbling through the water, collecting in mounds while clear, cold fingers of ice stretch out from either bank, reachin...
  Betty Martin author
2024-11-12

  Martin's Must-Reads: "A Court of Thorns and Roses"

“The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice. I’d been monitoring the parameters of the thicket for an hour, and my vantage point in the crook of a tree branch had turned useless."
  Betty Martin author
2024-11-05

  Martin's Must-Reads: "James"

“That evening I sat down with Lizzie and six other children in our cabin and gave a language lesson. These were indispensable."
  Betty Martin author
2024-10-29

  Martin's Must-Reads: "The Other Mothers"

“London Evening Post, November 21, 2017. A warning about the dangers of open-water swimming has been issued following the death of a young woman at a local nature reserve. Sophie Blake, twenty-one, went missing on the evening of July 7, 2017."
  Betty Martin author
2024-10-22

  Martin's Must-Reads: "Off the Books"

“She examines him again, this immaculate twenty something, his tall form folded into the back seat with the large suitcase he’s kept beside him, opting to fill the trunk with smaller things: his tablet and laptop, backpack, duffel, cooler bag. Miserable...
  Betty Martin author
2024-10-15

  Martin's Must-Reads: "The Princess of Las Vegas"

“I’m going to tell you what happened in Las Vegas, and I’m going to tell you everything as best I can, but my best is hampered by the fact this all occurred when I was doing two shows a night, channeling a dead princess, sleeping until lunchtime, poppi...
  Betty Martin author
2024-10-08

  Martin's Must-Reads: "Demon Copperhead"

“Dead in the heart of Lee County, between the Ruelynn coal camp and a settlement people call Right Poor, the top of a road between two steep mountains is where our single-wide was set."
  Betty Martin author
2024-10-01

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'America Redux'

“This book is nothing like the history textbooks I grew up with. It’s visual, it’s handwritten, it jumps around in time. It’s an attempt at a new way of seeing history - placing movements and events and people from across time in conversation with one ...
  Betty Martin author
2024-09-24

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store'

“Forty-seven years before construction workers discovered the skeleton in the old farmer’s well on Chicken Hill, a Jewish theater manager in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, named Moshe Ludlow had a vision about Moses. Moshe had this vision on a Monday morning...
  Betty Martin author
2024-09-17

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Crook Manifesto'

“From then on whenever he heard the song he thought of the death of Munson. It was the Jackson 5 after all who put Ray Carney back in the game following four years on the straight and narrow. The straight and narrow - it described a philosophy and a te...
  Betty Martin author