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Gary Baysinger

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Gary loves a good story. His debut work, "A Kind of Homecoming" was selected as a First Place Winner by Chanticleer International Book Awards. He is a graduate of the University of Baltimore and a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. Gary lives in Milwaukie, Oregon with his wife, two children, and two dogs. You can hear him spinning Swing & Country records on KBOO.FM every fifth Saturday from 6:00-9:00am PST. ...more

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A Kind of Homecoming

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A Writers' Guide to Medicine

A Writer's Guide to Medicine : Volume 1: Setting & CharacterWriters! Do you want to know if your characters are dying or suffering the right way? Would a blow to the head with a blunt object take someone out, or just give them a headache? Can someone bounce back from a coma to make it to their wedding on time? Tune in to KBOO.fm for the next episode of Between the Covers this Thursday, October 16t Read more of this blog post »
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How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. by Sam Lumley
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One of the benefits of being in a book club is that you often read books you normally would not. This is not a book I would have sought out. Sometimes, you are surprised. I quite enjoyed this book. It is a gay, romance, murder-mystery story. The main ...more
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Hologram by James Conroyd Martin
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A Gothic ghost story about a haunted house in 1990’s Indiana. Newlywed Meg convinces her husband to buy an old house that she feels “drawn to”. After moving in, strange noises in the night, ghostly apparitions, and disturbing dreams, push her to the ...more
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The Fallen Woman's Daughter by Michelle  Cox
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An intergenerational family story centered on a mother–daughter relationship. Based on real events, the author gives us a slice-of-life novel about two people whose life stories would have been lost to history. The book focuses on Gertie and her daug ...more
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All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  Whitaker
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A book club choice. The novel focuses on how the lives of two young people are impacted by a single traumatic event. Patch and Saint are two young teenagers in Missouri, who form a friendship based on their status as outcasts. Patch is thrust into th ...more
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Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
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A book club choice. This is a cold case murder mystery told from the P.O.V. of Lucy, the suspected killer. Lucy returns to the scene of the crime, her hometown. Five years have passed since Lucy’s best friend, Savannah, was murdered. Lucy claims to h ...more
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My Friends by Fredrik Backman
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Book club choice. A compelling story about the relationship between four teenagers in a small coastal town. Told in a series of flashbacks, the story initially focuses on one of the four teenagers who has become a world-famous painter. That narrative ...more
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A thing of beauty. The author takes on the complexities of a long-term marriage and gets down in the nitty-gritty of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The marital history of Abe and Ruth Winter is unique and universal at the same time. Their relations ...more
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I normally don’t read fantasy, but this was a book club choice. It is a novella, so I could say it was short and sweet. Only, it wasn’t short and sweet. It’s filled with violence, treachery, and murder. A fast-paced action-adventure story involving o ...more
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
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This was a book club choice. I picked the book up knowing nothing about it other than it was in the horror category.
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“Heartbroken, that's what her friends told her, she was heartbroken. But she knew from her experience as a nurse in the war that hearts didn't break, they bruised and the invisible scars were easy to trace and resurrect the pain.”
Gary Baysinger, A Kind of Homecoming

“Heartbroken, that's what her friends told her, she was heartbroken. But she knew from her experience as a nurse in the war that hearts didn't break, they bruised and the invisible scars were easy to trace and resurrect the pain.”
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