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A book review by The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.“Table for Two: Fictions,” by Amor TowlesWhile some authors have name-recognition, others have “title-recognition” -- when one or more their works is so widely read that it has overshadowed its...

By EMERSON SISTARE

A book review by The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.‘The Fury,’ Alex MichaelidesIn the dead of the New England winter, when the sun is setting before any of us get a chance to leave work, a compelling murder mystery is just what the bookseller...

By EMERSON SISTARE

A monthly book review by The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.“Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World Shell by Shattered Shell,” by Sy MontgomeryThere is something indescribable about exceptional nature writing. It feeds a hunger that goes unnoticed...

By EMERSON SISTARE

A monthly book review by The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.“The Marigold,” by Andrew SullivanAt the center of Andrew F. Sullivan’s “The Marigold” is rot. Set in a near-future Toronto, Sullivan lays the scene of a city consumed by consumption....

By EMERSON SISTARE

A monthly book review by The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.‘The Myth of Progress,’ by Tom WesselsThe author of “Forest Forensics” and “Reading the Forested Landscape,” Wessels is a tried-and-true master of nature writing. Bringing readers with...