Top Ten Summer Books
Our Favorite Children’s Books for Summer ... moving at the end as the main character finally decides to release his fireflies back outside. ... It’s a rhyming story.
Though most of Circe's fame derives from her short encounter with Odysseus in Book 10 of the Odyssey, Miller's novel covers a longer and more complex life: her lonely childhood among the gods, her first encounter with mortals, who "looked weak as mushroom gills" next to the "vivid and glowing" divinities, the awakening of her powers, and finally, the men who wash up on her shores, souring her trust with their cruelty.
In 'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones, a man is wrongly accused of a crime. A 4-star review of the latest Oprah's Book Club selection.
THE IMMORTALISTS isn’t perfect --- one of the siblings’ stories tiptoes a little too close to melodrama to suit the relative realism of the book’s other sections --- but that’s a relatively minor flaw, one that hardly detracts from the many serious and important questions Benjamin raises throughout her story.
Books. The Deconstructive Irony of Ortberg's 'The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror' ... The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror Mallory Ortberg .
She went into that shared house with a girlfriend, Kate, and came out with another girlfriend, Laura.
Summer road trip ahead? This is one book to pack for the long ride. D C-T is a unique book of phonetic puzzles, and also a love letter to the complex, multi-layered, and at times infuriating world of NYC.
The Mars Room is a dark book on the realities of the prison and justice system. ... The Mars Room is a politically motivated novel, ... Summer Lovin' (Costas Sisters ...
Find books by time period, ... "The Best Books to Read This Summer" ... How to Stop Time is a worthy addition to the time-travel canon, ...
Interview: Saroo Brierley, Author Of 'A Long Way Home: A Memoir' When Saroo Brierley was 4, he hopped on the wrong train in rural India, losing his way and his family. But as he recounts in A Long Way Home, Google Earth helped him return decades later.
In this week's fiction releases, you'll find the highly-anticipated new novel from Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion, as book as vivid and complex as its kaleidoscopic cover, as well as two very different young adult novels, Dread Nation and The Summer of Jordi Perez, both of which tackle tough issues — race and sexuality and weight, respectively — with the care and consideration they deserve through two propulsive tales you can devour in a single sitting.
Red Clocks is a dystopian novel, though I could see this future happening with a few wrong turns. Similar to The Handmaid's Tale, women find themselves in an inequitable society where the Personhood Amendment has granted rights to embryos, IVF is illegal, and of course, abortion is universally banned.
Summer Must Reads; Books for Kids; ... The House of Impossible Beauties A Novel. ... and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love, ...