I see a lot of exciting books joining our New Books shelf this week, including:
Rainwater by Sandra Brown: best-selling Brown turns her pen to historical fiction in this novel of 1934 depressed, drought-ridden Texas. An emotionally-charged story fitting for this setting comes to life under the talent of Brown, featuring love, passion, and fear.
The Lacuna [...]
This week brings us further into our fall reading spectacular with releases from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Diana Gabaldon!
American on Purpose is Craig Ferguson’s memoir of his journey from the mean streets of Glasgow to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark—as [...]
July 14th brings us a number of great-looking releases:
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin will appeal to foodies as well as to those who just love a good story. In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business baking cakes for all occasions, but she provides much more than just tasty desserts to those who enter [...]
This week I notice a lot of books with strong settings are being added to the collection. They look thick and rich, like excellent chocolate cake, and make me want to plunge in and be drawn into their worlds.
Firstly, we’re adding Mrs. Somebody Somebody, a collection of stories set in Lowell Massachusetts by Tracy Winn, [...]
The July 2009 issue of Esquire magazine arrived today. On its cover is an artfully nude Bar Refaeli. Nude except for the words scrawled all over her body, that is – words from a Stephen King short story published within the magazine’s pages. “Morality” is a dirty, rough story of desperate measures taken during a [...]
Alice Hoffman releases her newest book, The Story Sisters, tomorrow. The “Story Sisters,” Elv, Meg, and Claire, are dark-haired beauties clustered in the attic of their old Long Island house, while their lonely mother broods below. The all-female household is a sort of sly variation on Little Women as the girls weave tales in their [...]
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