Books

Rawlins is an engaging writer who obviously relishes digging out the meaty stories behind the songs he loves. His new book will delight anyone interested in music history or who loves early jazz.

In 'Maybe This Time' Jennifer Snow's writing style allows readers to identify with the main characters, drawing them into the conflict and the romance.

"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."

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Gabriel Valjan's 'Corporate Citizen' is highly recommended for those who love a good mystery.

A kid dressed as a clown and an adult killer clown's paths cross on Halloween night.

Interview with Stephanie Gangi author of 'The Next': "I went with the whole idea of a ghost as a kind of metaphor for women of a certain age, that invisibility, not to mention how marginalized you are when you’re sick. All of these things really coalesced for me in the writing of the novel, a sort of the ghost in the machine."

'Digital Selling' by Grant Leboff is canny, readable, and authoritative guide to selling in the transformed digital environment. Packed with strategies, it's a must-read for anyone in sales and marketing.

This novel about the biblical King David gives strong personalities to the women of the story, who in the texts are mostly merely wives, pawns, and victims. And the richness of the flowing prose matches Brooks's heightened imaginative powers.

Clare Clark's new novel 'We That Are Left' is a heartfelt story about The Great War, and a family that must come to terms with how their lives are irrevocably changed by it.