Mothers & Other Liars by Amy Bourret
This was an advanced copy I picked up at a conference, and I am definitely recommending it for our collection when it comes out in August. It’s full of love, loss, and tough decisions. The story is of a woman and her nine year old daughter, who she found [...]
61 Hours by Lee Child - Jack Reacher is back in his element - Smalltown, U.S.A. - in Child’s 14th thriller to feature the roving ex-military cop. When a tour bus on which he bummed a ride skids off the road and crashes, Reacher finds himself in Bolton, South Dakota, a tiny burg with big [...]
This week’s spotlight is on Baby Got Books! With a sassy name like that, and a catchy slogan like “your head will collapse if there’s nothing in it,” what more could you want?
What’s that, you want book reviews? Well, yes, they have those too. In fact, they have incredibly awesome book reviews! As well as [...]
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
This is the second book in a series. I loved the first, Life as We Knew It, and I reviewed it here. Oddly, I had said I wanted more perspectives on the events in that book and that is exactly what this book is - a story [...]
Fever Dream by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston - Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Special Agent Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife’s murder, but as he probes the circumstances of her death, he is [...]
With summer reading coming up, and the Mass Book Awards recently presented, it seems a great time to focus the spotlight on the Massachusetts Center for the Book. This is the Commonwealth affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. They, and all the national affiliates throughout the country, work to [...]
I was extremely lucky last week as I got to attend the Massachusetts Books Awards ceremony. All but one author was present to receive their awards, and I even got to meet John Pipkin and have him sign a copy of his excellent book Woodsburner. James Whitley did a reading and I wished I had [...]
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin.
I actually read this book a couple of months ago, after I saw Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland (highly recommended!) in the theater and was craving more time in Wonderland, or at least more Alice-based entertainment. Benjamin’s book practically leapt off the shelf at me as I was [...]
This first week of May brings us some great new releases, including:
Charlaine Harris releases her tenth Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead in the Family, this week. As you all know, this is the series on which the extremely popular TV show, True Blood, is based. In this installment, Harris slows the pace a bit to [...]
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