by ta | Jul 2, 2009 | Fiction
Preternaturally tall and painfully innocent, Brandon Vanderkool is more bird than border patrol agent, prone to mimicking birdsong and building nests. But he’s also a remarkably acute defender of a North American border that Jim Lynch describes as...
by ta | Jun 15, 2009 | Fiction
Take a look at the 100 best books about New England or written by local authors. It’s a great list to find some summer reading ideas.
by ta | Jun 11, 2009 | Fiction, Graphic Novels
David Small is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books. In Stitches, his first graphic novel, Mr. Small tells the story of his childhood. A childhood that is described on the back cover as one that “might have been imagined by Kafka.” Set in...
by ta | Jun 9, 2009 | Fiction
Harvard PhD student, Connie Goodwin, plans to spend her summer researching her doctoral thesis, but when a telephone call from her free-spirited mother sends her to Marblehead, MA to get her grandmother’s house ready to sell, her plans get a little side-tracked....
by Michelle | Jun 4, 2009 | Fiction
We may not have been able to attend BEA this year, but we were able to get the goods on several forthcoming releases from Random House. Erica McDonald highlighted books from multiple genres, including these: Crying Tree – Naseem Rakha (July) Dramatic, wrenching,...
by kimb8 | May 20, 2009 | Children's Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Summer Reading
I have to confess I put off reading this last (sob) book in the Percy Jackson series for about a week and a half because I just couldn’t stand to see it end. When I picked it up, I tried to read it as slowly as possible in order to savor each scene, but that of...
