This Pulitzer Prize winning book is astounding and dense — and it is only 192 pages. It’s very hard to put down once you start it. The story is told in the voices of three generations of a dysfunctional family. The old man is on his deathbed, in the dining room of his home, and the book covers his…
Accompanied by a Corona Lite or Mojito, this is the perfect light book for a summer beach day. Author Philip Margolin is an ex-criminal attorney who, like John Grisham, went the way of fiction to make millions and enjoy the law without the mundane parts. This is Margolin’s 14th novel, and it uses a number…
The hot book of the summer, One Day is the captivating story of Emma and Dexter, who meet on the day of their college graduation and start a relationship that goes from lovers to friends and everything in between over the course of twenty years. The story picks up on July 15 of each year,…
“Bloodroot” is the kind of book that transports you to a world you couldn’t even begin to imagine and introduces you to strong, solid characters who long remain with you. It’s a story of poverty and riches, magic and harsh reality, pure joy and deep sorrow. I had so much I wanted to ask author Amy Greene about her own…
In her latest novel, The Irresistible Henry House, Lisa Grunwald tells the life story of Henry House, a young orphan who was a “practice baby.” In the early part of the 20th century, colleges and universities across the US used real children to teach mothering skills to young women in home economics classes. These orphans…
