Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Like many people, I find ghost stories deliciously unsettling.  There is much to find unsettling in Howard Norman’s Next Life Might Be Kinder, beyond his […]

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Summer Light

Looking for a little light reading that’s perfect for the beach, the porch, or under a tree? My guilty pleasures this season are Kevin Kwan’s, […]

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You’ll Love Nina, too

Nina Stibbe would have been my perfect nanny–no Mary Poppins for my kids, thank you.  Irreverent, funny, intellectually curious, and nonjudgmental, Stibbe is the imperfect, […]

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In the Shadow of

When young Robert Louis Stevenson met Fanny Van de Grift at an enclave of Bohemian writers and artists in France, he was spellbound.  Small, dark, […]

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A Rhapsody in White

In a remote Catskill mountain hotel, once grand, but past its prime, tragedy struck when a young bride shot her unfaithful husband on their wedding […]

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An Unreliable Narrator

Arthur Winthrop is a third generation headmaster of a prestigious prep school in Vermont.  So when the reader finds him strolling naked through Central Park […]

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Missing Downton?

Here’s a list of books and videos to tide you over till season five of Downton Abbey. Fiction Snobs by Julian Fellowes The Uninvited Guests by Sadie […]

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