Reading Samantha Verant's How to Make a French Family: Love, Food and Faux Pas may convince you that fairy tales can come true! While attending Syracuse University, Samantha and her friend, Tracey, travel to England to visit her relocated family. On a side trip to...
Gabriel Tallent's debut novel, My Absolute Darling, the story of a man and his 14-year-old daughter living in the wild woods of Mendocino County, California, is filled with startling prose, untenable situations and a variety of abuse. Among the crashing waves, tide...
Tangerine, the debut novel written by British author Christine Mangan, won't be published until the end of March, but reserve it at your library right now and get a jump on the other people who haven't heard about it yet. Considerable industry buzz is building...
Another year is over, and, as usual, there were so many good books to read! Here is a sampling of what I really enjoyed. There are two moving memoirs, two travel books; one is a revelatory journey around the world and the other is a trip with a talented and...