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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-01-14

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Little Liar'

“1943. 'It’s a lie.' The large man’s voice was deep and hoarse. 'What’s a lie?' Someone whispered. 'Where we’re going.' 'They’re taking us North.' 'They’re taking us to die.'"
  Betty Martin author
2025-01-07

  Martin's Must-Reads: "The Backyard Bird Chronicles"

“These pages are my obsession with birds."
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-31

  Martin's Must Reads: 'China: The Novel'

“January 1839. At first he did not hear the voice behind him. The red sun was glaring in his face as he rode across the center of the world. ‘Mr. Jiang!’ He heard it this time. ‘Jiang Shi-Rong! Wait!”
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-24

  Martin's Must Reads: Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story of children on the cusp...
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-17

  Martin's Must Reads: 'A Girl Named Zippy'

I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and Haven Kimmel’s autobiography A Girl Named Zippy took me back to those glorious days of childhood freedom and innocence. Haven grew up in the 1960’s in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana, population 300....
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-10

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Good Neighbor'

“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?”
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-03

  Martin's Must Reads: 'Virgil Wander'

This week, Betty reviews Leif Enger’s newest book Virgil Wander. Enger is a master storyteller and this book does not disappoint.
  Betty Martin author
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