At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Although Bill Bryson’s most well know book is A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson is not a traditional historian. He does not offer illuminating insights or new interpretations of […]
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
If you enjoy historical mysteries, you’ll appreciate the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in England between the wars, Maisie is a former domestic servant, whose current career as psychologist […]
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
By Marina Lweycka Nominated for the Man Booker Prize, this remarkable first novel concerns the daughters of Nikolai Mayevskyj, an elderly Ukrainian immigrant living in England. Nadezhda and her older […]
Accused by Lisa Scottoline
Philadelphia lawyer Mary DiNunzio has a soft spot for the underdog much to the dismay of her colleagues in the all-female firm of Rosato & Associates. When Mary is hired […]
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
EARLY YEARS Mrs. Edwin Lee Hall of Baltimore had high hopes for her only daughter Virginia, born April 6, 1906. That her ambitions for her child were limited solely to […]
A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
I am a big fan of the non-fiction works of Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat and Double Cross, and his latest, A Spy Among Friends, doesn’t disappoint. Ken Philby was one […]
A Spool of Blue Thread
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler The Whitshanks, Abby and Red and their four grown children, are a close knit Baltimore family driving (mostly) merrily along the road […]
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
Ove is a curmudgeonly Saab driving widower whose reclusive life is upturned when a young couple and their two and a half children move in next door. After an unceremonious […]
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, the author of Rules of Civility, is a stylishly crafted novel of mystery, romance, humor, and history. In 1922, a Bolshevik tribunal sentences Russian aristocrat […]
A Gate At The Stairs
By Lorrie Moore College freshman Tassie Keltjin is thrilled to have escaped her parent’s potato farm for university life. She loves everything about college, the professor who wears a jeans and a […]