We’ve started featuring different paperback books every Thursday. This week, we’re getting ready for Valentine’s Day with Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington. “Love can make people do terrible things.” Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother, Paul. Sixteen and full of rebel cool, Paul spends his days cruisingContinue reading
Our featured books this week are brand new in paperback: The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle and We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge. The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle ometimes the greatest source of power is language, especially for the disadvantaged. The naming of names, the brandishing of labels, can unify or divide, create an us orContinue reading
After uncovering a court inquest from 1865 in her local library’s History Room, author Susan Rivers wrote her debut novel almost in a fever. “I was electrified by the plight of this young woman and by the extraordinary courage she must have possessed to face this ordeal alone in a war-torn world,” Rivers said. TheContinue reading
In honor of Bird Day, here are some fascinating facts that go Beyond the Book courtesy of BookBrowse.com and article author Rebecca Foster. In Elizabeth Church’s debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love, Meridian Wallace studies crow behavior over the course of decades. The Corvid family – which includes crows, rooks, magpies, ravens, and jays – isContinue reading
Matti Friedman‘s book Pumpkinflowers recounts an unnamed war on a small hilltop in Lebanon in the 1990s, a hill guarded by a band of young Israeli soldiers. Though the war has nearly been lost to history, Friedman relates the ways in which it changed these soldiers and their county, and he documents the birth of a new, modern styleContinue reading
Your book club loved The Art Forger, and now it’s time to pick your next great read. New York Times bestselling author B.A. Shapiro returns with a new book about art and intrigue that will have you talking with your reading group well into the night. And you can wow them all by bringing freeContinue reading