Tuesday is pub day for The Last September, the new novel by Nina de Gramont. And here’s your chance to win this gripping novel. Set against the desolate autumn beauty of Cape Cod, The Last September is a riveting emotional puzzle that takes readers inside the psyche of a woman facing the meaning of loveContinue reading
Whether you’re in search of peace, enlightenment or just a good book, here are some helpful tools to start your journey. Find answers in this month’s Lucky Stars e-books, all just $1.99 each throughout September. Peace. Love. Books. Golfing with God by Roland Merullo: Herman “Hank” Fins-Winston was a pro golfer destined for greatness. NowContinue reading
The kids are going back to school. The daylight lasts not quite as long. That luxurious feeling of having time, the extra time, to sit on a beach and read is slipping away with summer. But with just the right books, set in just the right places, you can keep hold of that reading feelingContinue reading
We wake up each day to a new story. Or, more accurately, a new chapter in the story of our lives. Each day builds the story, the story we tell about ourselves and the story we tell ourselves. That’s how Jonathan Evison cleverly constructs the story of Harriet Chance in his new novel, This IsContinue reading
Hair matters. And these writers go to great lengths to help us understand why. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women’s lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place inContinue reading
A moving story unfolds in real time in The Shift as practicing nurse and frequent New York Times contributor Theresa Brown reveals the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country. She lets us experience all the life that happens in just one day in a busy teaching hospital’s oncologyContinue reading