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2024-03-26

  Almost Yesterday: The Great Greenville Flood

It seems like Almost Yesterday when the community of Greenville, Missouri experienced a disastrous flood. The event was the most extensive flood in the history of the small town on the St. Francis River, and caused such destruction that it permanently ...
  Frank Nickell author
2024-03-26

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Mr. Texas'

“I see a young man on TV, riding a horse out of a barn, hugging a little girl. Let’s face it, I’m in the market for a useful idiot, and he’s strong and has that big goofy grin. So voila, there he is, the ideal candidate. He doesn’t have the brains of a...
  Betty Martin author
2024-03-19

  Martin's Must Reads: 'A Single Thread'

Many years ago, while visiting Coventry Cathedral, my mother was taken by the beautiful needlepoint kneelers that were in every row. She asked the guide if they sold the pattern for them and the guide went off to check. She returned with a packet of fo...
  Betty Martin author
2024-03-12

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Weyward'

“Prologue. Altha. 1619. Ten days they’d held me there. Ten days, with only the stink of my own flesh for company. Not even a rat graced me with its presence. There was nothing to attract it; they had brought me no food. Only ale.”
  Betty Martin author
2024-03-05

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Trouble with You'

“Your education will prepare your to be splendid wives and mothers, and your reward might be to marry Harvard men.” Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, president of Radcliffe College, in his welcoming addresses to incoming students, 1950’s.”
  Betty Martin author
2024-02-27

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Solar War'

“Deep in space, billions of miles from Earth, an ancient machine awoke. The machine ran several simulations, quickly settling on the optimal way to eliminate the target. The question wasn’t whether it could wipe out the primitivism.”
  Betty Martin author
2024-02-20

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Art Thief'

“Approaching the museum, ready to hunt, Stephane Breitwieser clasps hands with his girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus, and together they stroll to the front desk and say hello, a cute couple. Then they purchase two tickets with cash and walk in. It’...
  Betty Martin author
2024-02-13

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Keeper of Lost Things'

Anthony Peardew has been collecting lost things for forty years, ever since he lost the St. Teresa medal that his wife-to-be gave him right before she died. Every day he goes for a walk, picks up lost items, brings them back to his study, and labels th...
  Betty Martin author
2024-02-06

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'This Other Eden'

“On the first day of spring, 1911, Esther Honey, great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Patience, dozed in her rocking chair by the wood stove in her cabin on Apple Island. Snow poured from the sky. Wind scoured the island and smacked the windows like gia...
  Betty Martin author
2024-01-30

  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