“The Time It Takes to Fall” by Margaret Lazarus Dean

Margaret Lazarus Dean’s first novel, The Time It Takes to Fall, is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the ’80s NASA space program.
Dolores Gray has wanted to be an astronaut ever since she can remember. She attends shuttle launches with her father, a technician for NASA, keeps a space journal, and follows [...]

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“Lives of the Saints” by Nino Ricci

Originally released in 1990, Lives of the Saints is Canadian author Nino Ricci’s first novel in the Vittorio Innocente trilogy and is published in over a dozen countries (it is published as The Book of Saints in the U.S.).
Ricci successfully evokes typical childhood growing pains, adding a layer of angst in a story rife with [...]

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