Monthly Book Sale
August 2011 Booksales, Free book offer & Fall Booksale Bonanza August Monthly Booksale at 125 Gentry Way, Reno (rear of building) Saturday, August 13 (10AM
August 2011 Booksales, Free book offer & Fall Booksale Bonanza August Monthly Booksale at 125 Gentry Way, Reno (rear of building) Saturday, August 13 (10AM
Keith Devlin, of Stanford University and known to many as NPR’s The Math Guy, has written a witty, enlightening, engaging and utterly accessible book about
THE HELP Kathryn Stockett‘s debut novel, The Help, is so popular (my recently purchased copy was a seventh edition of the paperback) that another positive
IMPORTANT UPDATE Now it’s getting exciting! Les Earnest’s email is noteworthy on a couple of levels: 1) the cost is not outrageous and should be attainable;
FRIENDS OF THE WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY MONTHLY BOOK SALE Okay, all you folks in the Reno area, or our nearby California neighbors who can’t pass
Two days ago I posted a review of The Heming Way by Marty Beckerman. I was happy to get it posted in time for today’s
There are books read and reviewed by this writer that ought to come under a heading like, “Not for Everyone.” Who does the reviewer address
Haley Tanner has written a small gem of a debut novel in Vaclav & Lena. If you have ever loved the girl or boy next
The complete title of this amazing book is To Engineer is Human, The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I’m pretty sure all of you
This book, a mere 146 pages of text, is jam-packed with wonderfully offbeat information about a variety of American writers and their homes, now designated
To all of you who have read and value Wallace Stegner’s writing, fiction and nonfiction, I have an important announcement and plea for support. A
Ah, a bit of fluff, this French Lessons, A Novel? Not just French, but Paris lessons? We know it’s Paris from the book’s cover; the
Recommending a book for dad is much easier than a title for mom, at least that was my experience when I pounded the brick and
What a pleasure to be back with JP Kinkaid, his wife Bree, and the rest of the Blacklight entourage. Deborah Grabien, JP’s creator, has again
In today’s parlance, Noah Barleywater Runs Away, John Boyne’s return to children’s literature, is a Pinocchio knockoff with a delightful, yet serious, 21st century tone.
Can you remember when you first read Alice in Wonderland? Ever wonder about Alice? Or how Mr. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) came to write such
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