A Good Family, written by local author Matt Goldman, is paced so perfectly that it is very hard to put down. Set in the Country Club neighborhood of...
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And This Is About Love
Sam Masur and Sadie Green meet in the game room of a Los Angeles hospital, where Sam is recovering from a bad car crash and Sadie’s sister is...
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Four years ago, I attended Library Journal’s Day of Dialog and Book Expo in New York. For me, it was like attending the Academy Awards. I heard a...
Love Marriage Book Review
The novel Love Marriage by Booker Award–finalist Monica Ali opens in the London bedroom of 26-year-old Dr. Yasmin Ghorami. The delicious scents of...
Father-Daughter Cruise: ‘The Unsinkable Greta James’ Book Review
Jennifer E. Smith is a beloved teen author. If you haven’t read her, you may well know a young woman who has. Like Gabrielle Zevin and...
Supper at Six: ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Book Review
In the early days of television, the period of time after lunch and before dinner was considered a vast desert for producers. These hours reflected...
Voices Carry: ‘The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World’ Book Review
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina was translated from Italian by Lucy Rand and published in the U.S. in 2021. The novel...
Secrets in the Library: ‘The Personal Library’ Book Review
' In late 1905, a Princeton University librarian named Belle da Costa Greene was interviewed by banker and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Morgan was...
Author Jayne Allen’s Debut Novel
It’s not easy to be a woman in your 30s. Potentially all at once, you’re climbing career ladders, dating and looking for a spouse, saving to buy a...
Good Eggs
Add this debut novel to your end-of-the-year reading list. Kevin Gogarty, 50, has had it. His widowed mother, Amelia “Millie” Gogarty, has been...
Immerse Yourself in Historical Fiction
Readers live in the golden age of historical fiction, something to be thankful for. Novelists have access to more libraries, archives and...
For Your Book Club
Historical fiction highlights the pursuits and plights of women. A.J. Pearce first introduced intrepid junior journalist Emmeline Lake in her funny...
It’s a Mystery
Recommended reading for September. Readers of Elly Griffiths’ The Stranger Diaries will be thrilled to learn that she has written another standalone...
Back to School
Author details an 1800s snow day. Raina and Gerda Olsen were born in Norway in the 1870s. As small children, they immigrated to Nebraska with their...
Mystery for Memorial Day
Long weekends are for great reads. John Banville is an Irish writer and journalist. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2005, for his novel, The Sea. In...
Landmark Literature
Stories that take you places. Readers who like themes will love the novels of Fiona Davis. Her stories are set in landmark New York buildings. They...
Escape on a Literary Adventure with ‘This Tender Land’
William Kent Krueger's latest is a novel for those chilly nights. Award-winning and bestselling author William Kent Krueger became known to readers...
Edina Author’s First Book Brings Acclaim
Edina's Spencer Margaret had no experience or training in writing long-form fiction before beginning her first novel, "The Anchor House"....
Recommended Reading: ‘Dear Edward’ Teaches Emotional Truths Through Fiction
Although published for the adult market, Ann Napolitano's book would be highly appreciated by teenage readers. Eddie Adler, his brother, Jordan,...
Louise Erdirch’s Latest Novel Dazzles
"The Night Watchman" is a heartfelt story set in the heartland. Someday, Louise Erdrich will win the Nobel Prize for literature, but that is not why...
