by ta | Mar 9, 2010 | Fiction, Literary Fiction
Fans of The Art of Racing in the Rain might be excited to know that Garth Stein’s first novel, Raven Stole the Moon has just been released in paperback. It has been two years since Robert and Jenna Rosen lost their son in a drowning accident at a resort in...
by ta | Feb 25, 2010 | Fiction
The book starts with the birth of Ruby Lennox, the narrator. Her life story unfolds in chapters out of chronological sequence, through which we learn much of her dysfunctional family and what she perceives as her place in it. Ruby always feels as though she is missing...
by Michelle | Feb 12, 2010 | Fiction
With Valetine’s Day fast approaching, we asked our staff which literary couple was their favorite. The staff’s favorite couple, by majority, was Lady Julia Gray and Nicholas Brisbane from Deanna Raybourn’s excellent mystery series. This couple knows...
by ta | Jan 28, 2010 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Matt Younger is a 30-year-old boat delivery captain, who returns to Amelia Island, Florida from the Dominican Republic to make a confession to his dying father. With two companions, a cook named Jesse, and Phillip, a French mechanic, Matt tells his father how he set...
by ta | Jan 28, 2010 | Fiction
Our Lady of Fatima is a close knit and very well decorated town in New Jersey. It’s prince, Bartolomeo di Crespi is the town’s best and only interior decorator. B, as he’s better known, gives up a New York City career in design so that he can be a...
by ta | Jan 19, 2010 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few...
