As we near the year’s end, we’re looking back on a 2017 filled with some stellar books — honored, awarded and raved about by keen readers like you. We’re over the moon that so many people found so much in these books we loved. Good tidings and good reading wherever you go this season… ElmetContinue reading
We’ve got our copies of What Unites Us by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner. Do you have yours? As soon as you do, please go to Dan’s Facebook page to share a photo of yourself with the book in the comments on this post. And share it on your own social media. Post your photoContinue reading
C. Morgan Babst‘s debut novel, The Floating World, has been earning rave reviews — “powerful and important” (People) and “deeply felt and beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In this essay, she explains how her personal experience as a New Orleans native after Hurricane Katrina brought her to write The Floating World: “A story ofContinue reading
We’re in the midst of book awards season, heady times for lit lovers. The finalists are announced and the anticipation builds. Such talented writers, such fascinating, interesting, diverse books. And the big question crosses your mind: No, not “who will be the winner?” More important, “have I read them all?” With the Man Booker PrizeContinue reading
We’re thrilled to share that Lisa Ko‘s powerful debut, The Leavers, has earned a well-deserved spot as a finalist (finalist!) for the National Book Award for Fiction. Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It’s a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everythingContinue reading
Honored and admired author Robert Olmstead returns with Savage Country, a novel “about America told through its land and its animals and its diverse people and, especially, through the experiences of two vivid, singular, powerful characters,” as Kirkus Reviews raved Here, Robert describes his inspiration for his novel: the strong women who raised him, and theContinue reading