Report: Author Nicholas Sparks tried to ban an LGBT club from his private school
Romance writer Nicholas Sparks reportedly tried to ban an LGBT club from operating at the private school he runs, according to The Daily Beast.The former headmaster and CEO of Epiphany School of Global...
View Article7 books about fatherhood, just in time for Father's Day
Dads often get the short shrift. There’s a big focus on Mother’s Day and a much smaller focus on Father’s Day.When it comes to books on parenting, the same is true.For Father’s Day, we offer seven new...
View ArticleBook Notes: A lusty start to summer reading
“Cape May,” a novel by Chip Creek. Celadon Books, April 2019. $26.99, hardcover. 248 pages.“Cape May,” a debut novel by Chip Creek, an author with ties to Boston and New England where he went to school...
View ArticleMad Magazine is effectively shutting down after 67 years
Comedy and satire publication Mad Magazine is ceasing publication of new content and won't be available on newsstands after its August issue. CNN reports that readers will only be able to get issues in...
View ArticleBook Notes: A deep dive into William Stoner
“William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life” By Steve Almond. Ig Publishing, 2019, New York. 171 pages. $14.95.Boston-based author Steve Almond does an elegant job packing as much as he does into...
View ArticleBook Notes: A case of PTSD that didn’t have to happen
“Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line” By Ryan Leigh Dostie. Grand Central Publishing, June 2019. 359 pages. $28.Ryan Leigh Dostie was only 20 when she enlisted in the Army to become a...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble is celebrating James Patterson week with buy-one-get-one deals...
If you're a James Patterson fan and looking to stock up your book collection, you're in luck this week.Barnes and Noble is dedicating the entire week of July 29 through Aug. 5 to the author, [...]
View Article'Catcher in the Rye' will be available digitally for the first time this week
Your e-book library can now expand to include a classic. J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and other works by the author will be available digitally for the first time.A New York Times profile...
View ArticleBook Notes: ‘Perfect Son’ is perfect summer thriller
“The Perfect Son” By Leslie North. Berkley paperback, August 2019. 368 pages, $16.British author Lauren North’s debut novel, a thriller titled “The Perfect Son,” is 368 pages of nervous anxiety packed...
View ArticleTampa crime boss Santo Trafficante Jr. plays a central role in thriller...
"Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro" by Thomas Maier; Skyhorse Publishing (388 pages, $25.99)___We're awash in conspiracy theories these days, and most of them are...
View ArticleYou can make a change: Champion of civil rights to speak during Milford book...
Mary Frances Berry, a champion of civil rights, hopes to educate and inspire people to make changes in our country.Berry, along with Pennsylvania Congressman Matt Cartwright will be leading an...
View ArticleBook Notes: Exploring a brave, new world in ‘The Warehouse’
“The Warehouse” By Rob Hart. Crown, New York, August 2019. 368 pages. $27.One of the most appealing things about “The Warehouse,” the new near-future, near-dystopian thriller by Rob Hart, is its...
View ArticleBook Notes: ‘It’s time to talk out loud about sex and grieving’
“Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved” By Joan Price. Mango, Coral Gables, 2019. $16.95. 172 page.The mind and body aren’t always in agreement. Someone grieving the...
View ArticleAndrew Ridgeley reminisces about George Michael, Wham!
"Wham!, George Michael & Me: A Memoir" by Andrew Ridgeley, Dutton. 368 pp. $28 Warning: reading Andrew Ridgeley's memoir "Wham! George Michael & Me" may send you straight down a YouTube or...
View ArticleStephen King is turning his Maine home into a museum and writers' retreat
While it has been a tourist attraction for die-hard Stephen King fans, King's home in Bangor, Maine is about to become an official destination. King and his wife Tabitha requested to rezone their home...
View ArticleBook Notes: Watch your back
“Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers”Edited by Joyce Carol Oates with stories by Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Valerie Martin and others. Published by...
View ArticleA new collection of Joan Didion's work reminds us that she is her most...
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70sEdited by David L. UlinLibrary of America. 980 pp. $39.95---Joan Didion's late husband, John Gregory Dunne, once pointed out that "Joan never writes about a place that...
View ArticleSuperman's secret identity won't be secret anymore
It's not a bird. It's not a plane. And what writer Brian Michael Bendis really wants you to know is, it's not a trick.Superman will reveal his secret identity to the world next month in the pages of...
View ArticleBook Notes: Storyteller weaves a rich web of tales
“Everything Inside” Stories by Edwidge Danticat. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2019. 223 pages. $29.95.Stepping into Edwidge Danticat’s world is stepping into a more illuminated, truer, richer place than...
View ArticleAn ambitious lawyer, a stepfather with mob ties and the death of Jimmy Hoffa
In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the TruthBy Jack GoldsmithFarrar, Straus and Giroux. 354 pp. $28---Jack O'Brien graduated from Washington and Lee in 1984...
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