This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to
THE ROUND HOUSE The Round House, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, foregrounds all of her considerable talents. Set on an Ojibwe Indian reservation in North Dakota,
Pirate King is Laurie R. King’s eleventh Sherlock Holmes novel, starring Mary Russell. My Bantam trade paperback copy of the book contains a special treat—the
Another Place & Time: Voices from the Carrisa Plains Too many voices from our American past have been lost, especially those of men and women
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir & California Missions Sometime in the mid-1950s, the California State Board of Education decided all fourth grade children should learn
Claude & Camille A Novel of Monet Today, if one hears the name of the artist Claude Monet, a picture of a Japanese bridge crossing
The House on Mango Street: 25th Anniversary Edition What purpose does art serve? What inspires you to practice your craft? These are questions that aspiring
Let me begin this review with a glittering generality. I find contemporary Scandinavian murder mysteries to be graphic, violent, unsettling, and almost off-putting. I try
While I am reading a book that I plan to review, I am constantly thinking of words and phrases that might best describe the author’s
Dorothy Wickenden, the author of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, describes the story of her grandmother’s year in
True Believers is a book for boomers, the generation that came of age in the 1960’s, a turbulent time of political unrest in America. There were
ALMOST SOMEWHERE You might reasonably expect Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail to be a trail guide, a documentary instruction booklet on how to
THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET I have just finished reading David Mitchell‘s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and I am numb.
Our lives are infused with more poetry than we may think—recurring memories that unfold like refrains; the analogies we turn to as we struggle to understand
I don’t think I’ve ever read such an intricately patterned novel about generations of gay men. The Stranger’s Child moves from the beginning of the
TIGER’S CURSE From werewolves to weretigers, Tiger’s Curse takes a new spin on the shape-shifting love interests for which young adult paranormal romances are becoming
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