Novel-in-Stories Edible Stories

Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts, by Mark Kurlansky:   An innocuous packet of exotic sea salt threads its way through an unlikely cast […]

Psychological Thriller Envy

Envy, by Sandra Brown:   Perhaps money is not the root of all evil: perhaps envy is. When an over-the-transom submission lures New York publisher […]

Apocalyptic Fantasy Discord’s Apple

Discord’s Apple, by Carrie Vaughn:     Apocalyptic fantasy DISCORD’S APPLE melds myth with magic, ancient history with an all-too-likely near future, and a cursed […]

Mystery Death in Vineyard Waters

Death in Vineyard Waters, by Philip R. Craig:   Former Boston police detective J.W. Jackson has left the big city behind to spend his days […]

Historical Young Adult Novel Chasing Secrets

Chasing Secrets, by Gennifer Choldenko:   In 1900, bubonic plague comes to San Francisco, resulting in a Chinatown quarantine. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, who prefers assisting […]

Ethnic Literary Novel The Bingo Palace

The Bingo Palace, by Louise Erdrich:     It’s all about luck. The luck of striving, of familial bonds, of natural and supernatural intervention. Thus […]

Psychological Thriller The Best of Me

THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks:     When death of a mutual friend reunites Dawson Cole and his former sweetheart Amanda in psychological […]

Mainstream Novel Bel Canto

BEL CANTO, by Ann Patchett: When Latin American revolutionaries hold hostage a houseful of international musicians and guests in mainstream novel BEL CANTO, an indomitable […]

Comic Mystery Bad Monkey

BAD MONKEY, by Carl Hiaasen:    In comic mystery BAD MONKEY, a severed arm reeled in from the waters off Key West offers former Deputy […]

Romance Novel The Vineyard

Romance Novel The Vineyard, by Barbara Delinsky:  When her boss closes his Massachusetts business, photographic retouch artist and single mother Olivia Jones needs a new job […]