Barnes & Noble Launches Browsery™ App to Talk About Books
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest retail bookseller, today announced the...
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The Intermission by Elyssa Friedland
The Intermission, Elyssa Friedland, Penguin – Cass and Jonathan Coyne have it all. A swanky New York City apartment, good friends, and enough wealth to do what they want, when they want.
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Summer List by Amy Mason Doan
Book Review: Summer List, Amy Mason Doan, Graydon House – Laura Christie receives a letter out of the blue from an old friend she’d parted from under unpleasant circumstances seventeen years ago.
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Limelight by Amy Poeppel
Book Review: Limelight, Amy Poeppel, Atria Books – Allison Brinkley, who has just moved from Dallas to New York City, gets a dose of big-city driving when she crashes into an unoccupied BMW while retrieving her child at school.
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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Pick 2018 Award Winners
Award winners – The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA), a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, each year picks six or more authors to be promoted in member stores during the winter and spring of 2018.
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A Roman à Clef and its Aftermath
A roman à clef is a French word that loosely defines a novel as a work of fiction based on real...
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Intrigue and Dangers in the World of the Djinn
Author Interview: The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty, Harper Voyager – A young woman in eighteenth century Egypt survives by using her wits and stealing from her victims. Nahri doesn’t believe in magic, but she does have tricks for healing. One night while performing what she thinks is a sham zar incantation, she calls up an ifrit – an evil supernatural being who is now out to get her.
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White Houses Offers an Engaging Portrait of Love
Author Interview: White Houses, Amy Bloom, Random House – Amy Bloom’s novel White Houses is a compelling fictive exploration of the love affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok. This is Bloom’s first book of historical fiction. The novel belies the common narrative of Eleanor Roosevelt as a woman who was disappointed in marriage and became an asexual being.
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Camille Pagán on Finding One’s Self Again
Author Audio Interview: Woman Last Seen in her Thirties, Camille Pagán, Lake Union – Camille Pagán has a remarkable talent for crafting deeply affecting novels about the human condition.
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Ruth Hogan Debut: The Keeper of Lost Things
Author Interview: The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan, Harper Collins – the perfect read if you want to switch off from the challenges of the day and dive into an enchanting tale . . . .
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