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The Last Verse is a tour de force second novel written by author Caroline Frost whose debut novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow (2022) set in East Texas won the Crook’s Corner Literary Prize and was nominated for additional awards. It is not hard to predict readers will welcome more from......

Studies at the School by the Sea (Avon) written by Jenny Colgan was originally published in the United Kingdom as Studies. It is the fourth novel in a captivating series set in a Cornish boarding school.  As befits a Scottish writer of cozy novels and romantic comedies, this best-selling and......

On August 12, 2022, while speaking at a literary festival at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, Salman Rushdie was stabbed 15 times. Now, blind in his right eye and still suffering the aftereffects of the attempted assassination, Rushdie has opened up about the experience in his new mem...

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and...

How to End a Love Story (Avon) by Yulin Kuang is an intriguing debut novel that is told from the alternating perspectives of two main characters Helen Zhang and Grant Shepard. Set against the backdrop of a writers’ room in LA for a TV adaptation of Helen’s successful book series,......

If you are reading these words, you are in a minority — you are in the only 20 percent of people in America who can read a book and habitually do so. Yet despite the plethora of distractions and obsessions, reading, says iconic author James Patterson, is not on the......

Alfred A. Knopf has announced the upcoming publication of President Bill Clinton’s memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, set to release on November 19, 2024.  Remarkably candid, and richly detailed, Citizen offers fascinating insight into Clinton’s life – both personal and political...

Claire Swinarski welcomes new fans and graces her readers with a charming, uplifting novel The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County. Anyone who has ever lived or spent time in Midwestern or Southern states is familiar with the comforting custom of feeding the family, friends and mourners a meal at the.....

It’s not enough to be sickened by the injustices and atrocities around us, we have to be a visible and vocal presence in the world, says writer/activist/pastor and storyteller John Pavlovitz.  We suffer from a “poverty of empathy.” We must fight for the people that we love, for the natio...