DUTTON’S DIRTY DIGGERS, GIRL SCOUT ARCHEOLOGISTS ON THE MOVE. Anyone who fondly remembers Girl Scout camping days will relish the reminiscences to be found in
Beheld – a novel of the first settlers of the Plymouth Colony and the complex domestic constraints under which the women lived. When
I am happy to pass on to my visitors this notification of an important PBS show on National Day of Holocaust Remembrance, May 1st. This is
What a pleasure to be back with JP Kinkaid, his wife Bree, and the rest of the Blacklight entourage. Deborah Grabien, JP’s creator, has again
Haley Tanner has written a small gem of a debut novel in Vaclav & Lena. If you have ever loved the girl or boy next
Ever wish you could be a part of a world-famous rock band and perform at venues in cities like Paris, New York, Berlin, London? Well,
Normally I don’t review books written by good friends and ordinarily ‘Bookin’ with Sunny’ doesn’t include books with footnotes, but we’re making an exception for
I am tempted to call Dan Josefson’s first novel, That’s Not A Feeling, a fourth generation offspring of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
The subtitle to Good Prose is The Art of Nonfiction, Stories and advice from a lifetime of writing and editing. Tracy Kidder is an author
Belshazzar’s Daughter, the first of a series highlighting Inspector Cetin Ikmen in each novel, is a police procedural set in modern-day Istanbul. Just like policemen
Atomic Comics, Cartoonists confront the Nuclear World Atomic Comics is the 2013 winner of the ALAs “Choice Outstanding Academic Title” award. I read it in
Sometimes the title of a book captures its content perfectly. Such is the case with Haven’s Wake, Ladette Randolph’s novel of modern Mennonite life and
There is nothing more intimate than a memory. We can share experiences with others. We can delight in the same sunrise; we can mourn the
Another cozy British mystery, another spunky heroine, another assemblage of novels to follow contentedly for years. Frances Brody has added another detective series to my
SAN FRANCISCO, A MAP OF PERCEPTIONS Andrea Ponsi’s San Francisco: A Map of Perceptions is a small, lovely gem – or, perhaps, a handful of
Silent Echoes, Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton For a recent wedding anniversary gift, my wife bought me The Art of Buster
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