by ta | Mar 25, 2008 | Poetry Collections
Smith combines a strong line and a knack for historical narrative to deliver a compelling collection of poetry. His poetic journey takes him deep into the South where he looks back at history and tries to answer the question – why? Some of the poems are...
by ta | Mar 17, 2008 | Book Group Ideas, Marie's Monthly Minutes
Don’t you love it when clever people come up with good ideas that you can use and look clever yourself? Why reinvent the wheel, right? Marie, of Marie’s Monthly Minutes, told us about a great book club idea for The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson....
by ta | Mar 16, 2008 | Audiobooks, Fiction
Maris Matherly-Reed is more than an editor. She’s also the beloved daughter of the publishing house’s highly respected and successful leader, and the wife of Matherly Press’s second-in-command, the smooth, suave, double-dealing Noah Reed. Reed, it...
by ta | Mar 10, 2008 | Book Awards
The winners for the NBCC Awards were announced over the weekend: Criticism: The Rest is Noise, by Alex Ross Poetry: Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang Biography: Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer, by Tim Jeal General Nonfiction: Medical Apartheid,...
by ta | Mar 4, 2008 | Non-fiction, Patron Recommendations
The Richistanis like to consider themselves ordinary people who just happen to have tons of money, but they live in a world where people buy boats just to carry their cars and helicopters behind their primary yachts, and ordering an alligator-skin toilet seat...
