TaraShea Nesbit made a stunningly smart decision when she wrote The Wives of Los Alamos. She chose to tell their stories through a collective consciousness
If my internet calculations are correct, nearly two hundred sequels to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice have been written! Noted mystery novelist P. D. James
Nipping at the heels of the word “summer” are the words “summer camp,” and not long after comes the word “campfire,” and it’s a no-brainer
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 In April 1939 Charles Lindbergh strode into FDR’s White House Office. The
Hard Country, A Novel of the Old West and Backlands, A Novel of the American West New Mexico author Michael McGarrity has written a dozen mysteries featuring
Instinct: A way of behaving, thinking, or feeling that is not learned; a natural desire or tendency that makes you want to act in a
“And I’m Harbinger Robert Francis Jones, the king of darkness and despair… and we…are the Scar Boys!” Is Harry “Harbinger” Jones’s name a crystal ball
For once, I am at a loss for words! White Ginger, by Thatcher Robinson, is indescribable, delightfully so. A mystery, a thriller studded with violence,
When I read a novel with an underlying premise that I can’t quite believe, I rarely like the book. Queen Sugar, by Natalie Baszile, is
It’s been a long time since I’ve opened a book and literally fallen into its story. Courtney Collins’s debut novel, The Untold, is such a
Book Was There, Reading in Electronic Times I am excited to recommend Book Was There (a quote from Gertrude Stein, a writer who, I believe, would
With publication of the massive two-volume novel Blackout and All Clear in 2010, Connie Willis was subsequently named Grandmaster of Science Fiction. In the wake of this
Southeast Asia and its storied past remain mysterious to me. So I cannot judge the fidelity of Kim Fay’s novel, The Map of Lost Memories;
The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years More than fifty years after his untimely death, John F. Kennedy still fascinates us. Frederick Turner’s The
The reader who recalls Frederic Tubach’s and Bernard Rosner’s movingly honest memoir, An Uncommon Friendship, should not pass up Tubach’s latest book, German Voices. The
A conversation with a friend who is far more religiously astute than I led me to ask him to recommend a book or two about
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