The self-help genre is more popular than ever as we try to grasp control of some aspect of our lives. With more and more titles being released daily, we pored through the piles of books we’ve recently received to offer you a dozen of the best. Whether you want to lose weight, be a better…
Joshua Braff’s family-drama novel, Peep Show, begins as the camera-toting David Arbus nears his 1975 high school graduation. Braff marks each new chapter with street photography as though possibly photographed by the protagonist himself. The allusion to famed real-life photographer Diane Arbus is clear. The story spans a few pivotal years of David’s turbulent coming…
When I think of culinary adventure, my mind wanders to trying a new type of cheese, baking dough that actually has to rise, or eating at a restaurant lauded by a magazine columnist. When Chris Kimball thinks of culinary adventure, he takes it a step further, going so far as to create an authentic 12-course…
This is a story that makes us so proud, and proves — once again — that we have the best readers! You don’t just read about the charitable actions we write about, you get out there and act upon them. This is why we know in our hearts that women are the ones with the…
The Blind Contessa’s New Machine is the debut novel by the young Midwestern writer, Carey Wallace. It is a fictionalized account of the true story of Pellegrino Turri, a 19th century Italian inventor who developed the first typewriter for his blind friend, Carolina Fantoni. From the actual surviving letters that Fantoni wrote to Turri, Wallace’s…
