Tag: family life
Books to Read: The Marsh Queen by Virginia Hartman
by Editorial Staff | Sep 1, 2022 | What's Hot | 0 |
The Marsh Queen, Virginia Hartman, Gallery Books – For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this “marvelous debut” (Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces her past
Read MoreThe Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
by Kate Padilla | May 22, 2019 | Book Reviews | 0 |
The Murmur of Bees, Sofia Segovia, Amazon Crossing – Sofìa Segovia’s magical realism novel, “The Murmur of Bees,” is masterfully absorbing, and laced with delicious prose. Her characters are likewise captivating, so their journey becomes very personal.
Read MoreThe End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells
by Kate Padilla | Apr 27, 2019 | Book Reviews | 0 |
The End of Loneliness, Benedict Wells, Penguin Books – A mournful, tragic family saga written by German novelist Benedict Wells and translated by Charlotte Collins, “The End of Loneliness” follows lives of three children during a 30-year period beginning in 1980 after their parents die in an automobile accident.
Read MoreThe Chef’s Secret by Crystal King
by Kate Padilla | Dec 19, 2018 | Book Reviews | 0 |
The Chef’s Secret, Crystal King, Touchstone – Crystal King’s historical novel, “The Chef’s Secret,” is a fictional story based on a true character, Bartolomeo Scappi, who served as the Vatican chef during the 16th century Italian Renaissance.
Read MoreShakespeare Inspires Beatriz Williams’ Novel, The Summer Wives
by Anna Roins | Dec 1, 2018 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
The Summer Wives, Beatriz Williams, Harper Collins – A fascination with islands and Shakespeare’s The Tempest were among the inspirations for Beatriz Williams’ ninth historical novel, where she explores a new branch of the Schuyler family tree.
Read MoreThe Lying King by Alex Beard
by Kate Padilla | Sep 5, 2018 | Book Reviews | 0 |
The Lying King, Alex Beard, Greenleaf Book Group – This thin and nicely illustrated volume looks like a children’s book, but the tale inside “The Lying King” offers a timely and uncanny resemblance to our current adult times.
Read MoreNovelist, Short Story Writer Nick White on Form, Place and Character
by Ellen Birkett Morris | Sep 1, 2018 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
Sweet and Low, Nick White, Blue Rider Press – Writer Nick White bring his southern sensibility and experience as a gay man to bear on his telling stories that will stay with readers long after they close the covers of his books.
Read More19th Century Farmer in Search of Giant Mysterious Creatures
by Diane Slocum | Jul 1, 2018 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
West, Carys Davies, Scribner – Widower Cy Bellman reads about huge bones found in Kentucky and becomes obsessed with the idea that the creatures may still live in the unexplored west.
Read MoreGuilt by Amanda Robson
by Cindy Matthews | Apr 18, 2018 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Guilt, Amanda Robson, Avon – Miranda and Zara Cunningham are twins, different in both looks and personality. Zara is a flighty, outgoing and artistic soul with a history of self-harm. Miranda, more stable and grounded, worries for her sister.
Read MoreWinter Sister by Robin Oliveria
by Kate Padilla | Apr 2, 2018 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Winter Sisters, Robin Oliveira, Random House – Robin Oliveira’s haunting thriller, “Winter Sisters,” loosely based on a 19th-century historic snowstorm that buried Albany, New York, also shines light on early 20th-Century age-of-consent and sexual-assault laws.
Read MoreWrite for the Pleasure of It Advises Coster
by Ellen Birkett Morris | Apr 1, 2018 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
Halsey Street, Naima Coster, Amazon – Naima Coster’s debut novel HALSEY STREET is a story of estrangement and reconciliation that follows the effects of gentrification on the life of a family and the Brooklyn neighborhood where they reside.
Read MoreLimelight by Amy Poeppel
by Kate Padilla | Mar 5, 2018 | Book Reviews | 0 |
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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