I have just posted a review of Madeleine E. Robins Point of Honour and am happy to announce that the third book in the Sarah
For those readers who love historical fiction and especially stories from Regency England, look no further. Madeleine E. Robins has written in Point of Honour
It’s not often that an early-to-middle-reader book can charm and educate in one fell swoop, but that is exactly what Allyson Beatrice has accomplished in
Hooray for the third of Grabien’s JP Kinkaid Chronicles. Somehow, Grabien has once again managed to deftly bring together mystery, music and maturity. For those
Any fellow reader who has their own small library and then has had to box up that library because of a move, and then in
About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
AMERICAN ZION, CLIVE BUNDY, GOD & PUBLIC LANDS IN THE WEST American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West unearths historic myths
For anyone who loves nineteenth-century American literature, and I do, April Bernard’s Miss Fuller: A Novel catches the quasi-archaic tone perfectly. Bernard’s characters understand exactly
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Not long ago I described a new series for “Bookin’ with Sunny” readers. Poisoned Pen Press is offering British Library
The Girl on the Road No, this is not a review of Monica Byrne’s fabulous The Girl in the Road (I’m working on that very
THE ONLY KAYAK; JOHN MUIR AND THE ICE THAT STARTED A FIRE; JIMMY BLUEFEATHER Reading Kim Heacox is like sitting down with an old friend
NOVEMBER ROAD To appreciate Lou Berney’s novel, November Road, you have to reimagine November 22, 1963. First, you must discard much of what you know
Repetitive plots and mythic threads run through many, many novels of the American West. The family ranch or farm, beset by change, barely holds a
Noah Charney founded and now directs an international think tank on art crime. The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) aids police and
Belshazzar’s Daughter, the first of a series highlighting Inspector Cetin Ikmen in each novel, is a police procedural set in modern-day Istanbul. Just like policemen
Rituals is the first of four volumes in a modern odyssey by Roz Kaveney. Along with Neil Gaiman and Mary Gentle, Kaveney was one of the
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