Happy National Library Week! The amazing debut we’d like to share with you today is THE GIRLS FROM CORONA DEL MAR by Rufi Thorpe. Why this book should be on your night stand: A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in youth and how these bonds, challenged by […]
Martin Walker’s latest novel,The Resistance Man, is set in the gorgeous Dordogne region of France. To celebrate its release, Knopf is offering a chance to win a decadent gift basket filled with classic French delights including cheeses, jams, chocolates, and more! Click Here for a Chance to Win. Visit the Bruno Chief of Police Website! […]
A new collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America. These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the passage of time and […]
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Today’s Random Romance feature is Maggie Shipstead’s ASTONISH ME. Her debut Seating Arrangements was a department favorite and went on to win the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. We’re exciter to share another Shipstead romance that is a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world […]
Jenny Offill’s new novel DEPT. OF SPECULATION is a true portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Click to Request an eGalley. The novel’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife,” […]
Looking for something to recommend to fans of The Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society or Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand? I just finished the emotionally charged story of Cora Blake, a librarian in Maine, who travels to Europe as a Gold Star Mother on a government-sponsored trip to visit the grave of her son Sammy, killed […]
Very exciting Bridget Jones news … NBC’s TODAY announced this morning that Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by author Helen Fielding is its latest pick for the TODAY Book Club. Get ready to chat all about Bridget’s latest snogs and shags as a singleton widow in her 50s who’s still got it going on. NBC […]
It’s agreed, BOOK OF AGES is a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister Jane and a history of history itself. Book of Ages will not disappoint any Franklin-o-phile or Founding Era enthusiast. (See press praise below) It was written by one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, Jill Lepore who is the […]
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