Payback, Mary Gordon’s philosophically emotional tale of forty-seven years of planning and plotting payback for an act of betrayal. Payback is Mary Gordon’s thirteenth novel.
Bound for Gold, William Martin’s sixth Peter Fallon novel. This one is a West Coast page-turner as tasty as it is mysterious, both in the
Anthill – The late Edward O. Wilson’s novel look at myrmecology from the Florida panhandle to Mobile, Alabama, fiction as well as fascinating taxonomy.
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Supreme Court Justice, brings the breadth and depth of her lived experiences to her memoir, My Beloved World. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia
ANGLE OF REPOSE Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t
You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught Several months ago I was reading a children’s book I bought a few years back. It’s a story written
How can a novel make you feel old and nostalgically young at the same time? Pick up Arthur Phillips’ The Song is You and you’ll
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A Night of Tamales & Roses is at its simplest, a story of stage fright. It is also the story of little Ana Luisa, whose
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
The Northern California Independent Booksellers trade show in Oakland last week added another chapter to the organization’s activist reputation. The following is taken from today’s Shelf Awareness,
It’s something of a cliché for a reviewer to warn readers of an especially challenging work that “This is not for everyone;” but sometimes—like now—it’s
About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
Robert Hughes, native of Australia and extraordinary art critic of the world, died in New York, on Monday, August 6th http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/arts/robert-hughes-art-critic-whose-writing-was-elegant-and-contentious-dies-at-74.html?_r=1 . In 1981, his
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
AT EASE IN THE BORROWED WORLD Turn to the last page of At Ease in the Borrowed World and you will find an important piece
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