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...
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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...
Recommended Read: ‘The World That We Knew’
In The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman has written a novel that is charged with magical realism, but framed in history. In Berlin, during the...
Start Off 2020 With One of the Best Books of 2019
Ann Patchett's latest novel tells the story of how a boy and his older sister came to live in the wondrous Dutch House, and how they lost...
Book Pick: Richard Russo’s ‘Chances Are…’ Balances Humanity, Humor and Suspense
Richard Russo's "Chances Are..." explores the regrets that fray men’s souls. Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Russo has three college friends...
Edina Author Karen Kelly Delves Into the Past in New Novel ‘Bethlehem’
Edina writer takes readers to another time period with her second novel. Historical fiction, love, tragedy, mystery and suspense are all wrapped up...
