THE UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE OF INSPECTOR CHOPRA AND SO MUCH MORE A “fun murder mystery” is not at all an oxymoron when applied to Vaseem Khan’s
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World Alison Weir, author of fourteen books on Medieval and Renaissance Britain, has now written about nearly
2015 Gift Books for the Guys in Your Life Taken from Neal Ferguson’s reviews for bookinwithsunny.com Bill Bryson’s One Summer, America, 1927 – Anchor Books
THE MARE For those of us who know what it’s like to love horses, The Mare is so much more than another story about a
Benjamin Franklin may be having his day with noted biographies, but renowned revolutionary historian Gordon S. Wood has given us something else entirely. The Americanization
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Save Lives in World War II What do Elephants really want?
Recently, my niece in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Facebooked a message to me asking for a few recommendations of books she might like to read while
Lafayette in the SOMEWHAT United States I’d venture a guess that few adults remember their 11th grade American history class as being particularly humorous. After all,
Numbered Account – Reich bifurcates his novel between the intricacies of Swiss banking and one fast-paced thriller. Christopher Reich has written what I would call
The Paperbag Princess, A twist to the knight and princess tale. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko is
The Clockwork Crow, first in a new series by Catherine Fisher. I feel on pretty sure ground when reviewing children’s picture books, but lacking a
The Overstory A powerful novel of environmental concepts. During the decade before I retired, I often taught “Environmental Literature,” a capstone course for graduating seniors.
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why Trainwrecks, Sady Doyle metaphorically muses, are women who have lost
BRADSTREET GATE An unsettling novel with an unsettled ending, Bradstreet Gate opens on the tenth anniversary of a murder committed on the Harvard campus. Robin
THE HIDING PLACE I could review C. J. Tudor’s novel, The Hiding Place, in just four words. Rosemary’s Baby on Steroids. Except that wouldn’t be
The Last Secret Secrets. Be honest, don’t we have a few things that, for whatever reason, we’ve never told another person? Well, Nora Trimble Hammond,
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