For all you Sara Gruen fans who have been patiently waiting for her first novel since Water for Elephants, wait no longer. Ape House is
Okay readers, remove the snow chains from the car trunk and replace them with your beach umbrella because, weather-gods willing, summer is just around the
If I were asked to name my favorite murder mystery writer of today, I think I’d choose Louise Penny. Elizabeth George would be a close
Reading Journal, November 30, 2012 A member of our Clayton Community Library Book Club recommended David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to me quite a few months ago.
It is February fellow-Americans, and we know, as readers, students, television programmers and booksellers, what that means: It’s Black History Month! What I’ve never understood
David Levithan’s novel, Two Boys Kissing, contains so many layered nuances of gay America in the twenty-first century that I hardly know how to begin
The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle There is some truth in the seldom-practiced adage: “It is amazing what you
These are installments three and four in Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs detective series. The Great War continues to cast cool and disconcerting shadows onto survivors’ lives
David Malouf’s novel, Harland’s Half Acre, features an Australian artist with surrealistic talent. Writing about Frank Harland, Malouf himself depicts his art and his settings
Pope Francis Among the Wolves, The Inside Story of a Revolution While attending the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show back in October, I
OUR SOULS AT NIGHT What a great pleasure to recommend Kent Haruf’s last book, published posthumously in 2015. Our Souls at Night is a small
Black History Month – I can’t believe I have not upgraded this essay and list of interesting titles since 2013. Today, in our frightening political
TEN HORSE FARM Pop-up books are so darned much fun it is hard not to love them. Robert Sabuda, the uncrowned king of pop-ups, has
WHAT SHE LEFT BEHIND Ellen Marie Wiseman cites the Willard Suitcase Exhibit and a nonfiction book by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny, The Lives They
The Heron’s Cry, sequel to The Long Call. Cleeves and her detective Venn have done it again in the second Two Rivers mystery. As promised,
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