Five YA Novels Adults Can Enjoy Too
Besides spawning blockbuster film franchises, one of the things that’s made such series as Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy [...]
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The Doll House by Fiona Davis
Heading out for the summer’s final hurrah? Be sure to pack The Doll House, a new novel by first-time author Fiona Davis, in your tote [...]
Literary Starbucks – Fresh-Brewed, Half-Caf, No-Whip Bookish Humor
John Keats orders a Venti iced caramel Frappucino. He sits down at a table by himself, sighs dramatically, and doesn’t drink it. [...]
The Lost Girls – Five Generations of Family Secrets
I hold secrets that don’t belong to me; secrets that would blacken the names of the defenseless dead. So writes the late Lucy [...]
The Hatching – World War Z With Spiders!
She was not afraid of spiders. There was no reason to be afraid of spiders. My brother is one of the biggest fans of horror movies and [...]
Liane Moriarty’s Truly, Madly, Guilty
“This is a story that begins with a barbecue….An ordinary neighborhood barbecue in an ordinary backyard.” What happened at that [...]
Great Books about Sacrifice and Olympic Glory
The Summer Olympics are off to a fine start. Who can resist the joyful, ebullient faces of the athletes from all over the globe as they [...]
Poet’s Corner: Backstory – Susan Moorhead
I am from the whistle of a tea kettle always calling from the stove, and a Scottish calendar tacked on the kitchen wall. I am from [...]
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