Books by Joseph Monninger
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review 1: This predictable romance novel involves a woman with a young son. Her husband has been comatose for six years after being shot in the spine in Afghanistan. She travels to Washington, D.C. to accept an award for her husband. She is accompanied by an escort provided by the gover...
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review 1: What a beautiful love story between two kindred souls. This was not a book that I would typically find myself interested in reading. I usually prefer fast paced, page turning books. However, the descriptions of nature, relationships formed and nurtured over years had me captivate...
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review 1: Thoroughly enjoyed this book that follows the story of Allard and Ed, brothers growing up in New Hampshire, and their dear friend and neighbor, Sarah. The boys save the new girl, Sarah, when she fell through the ice, and their lives are intertwined ever since. It sounds corny,...
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review 1: The opening of Joseph Monninger’s Margaret from Maine had me in tears as I prepared myself for an emotional and heart-wrenching novel. However, I became increasingly disappointed as the story went downhill very quickly after that. I expected to see the struggles of a wife who dev...
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review 1: Beautifully written by a college professor, the book is essentially a love story-on many levels. I agree with the Book Club discussion at the end of the book that Nauture is actually a main character in the story and there's a strong "sense of place" since the author is writing ...
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review 1: Two teenage girls pack up a horse and go on a road-trip cross country to find a place where their beloved horse can just be free. A trip that began as a means of freeing a horse turns into a story of friendship and self discover. Slow at times, I still found myself envious of t...
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review 1: This short book can be summed up as a mix of Hoot and Nim's Island type material. A 15 year old girl goes sailing, has an accident, gets saved by a manatee, lives on an island for a few days, and then gets rescued. She becomes famous after being video taped riding on a manatee wh...