The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created “Alice in Wonderland.” The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, a well-researched
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
A DEATH IN SUMMER For those of us who tend to read lighter at this time of year, summer can only mean a plethora of
The power of a good picture book is a wondrous thing, especially those pictures books that bring historical figures to life. Author Alan Schroeder and
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Vanessa Diffenbaugh, based on her debut novel The Language of Flowers, is an author to remember. If her opening sentence: “For
When Harry de Leyer arrived at the weekly Holland, Pennsylvania horse auction, he was late. It was February 1956. He had driven through rough weather
The machinations of our communities may take place in City Halls, but the heart of our communities lives in our local libraries. If Mr. Carnegie
The Long Song, A Novel of Haitian Slavery The Long Song, author Andrea Levy‘s fifth book is not to be missed. Levy, the daughter of
The Monsters of Templeton and everything else in between. This is reading bliss. When I wrote this review in November of 2008, for the Clayton
Colson Whitehead, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and a keen observer of the American way of life, has written a story
Great Joy, a Christmas picture book by Kate DiCamillo, really is a great joy, and between DiCamillo’s words and Bagram Ibatoulline’s illustrations, it deserves to
Don’t let the “cutesy” cover of Firmin fool you. Sam Savage’s first novel by is just about everything a serious reader, or a reader with
Here’s an update to a favorite book I reviewed fourteen years ago. Our name recognition for American Revolutionary War luminaries may not bring up Thaddeus
AN UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP Just when we think we’ve read all the Holocaust books that we can, Bernard Rosner and Fritz Tubach come up with a
Sometimes when picking a new book to review, it’s best not to look at the advance praise printed on the back cover. Words like “epic,
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