Bodie Kane has returned to her New Hampshire boarding school campus to teach a podcast class 20+ years after her graduation. In a compulsively readable story, she poses questions pertaining to the murder of her classmate and former roommate. Her flashbacks, speculations, and current timeline are all equally engaging. –Mary, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, WA …
Beautifully written and lovingly shared. Even if we cannot walk in the steps of Thoreau ourselves, with this new inspiration, we can perhaps find our way to a new path and find the nourishment we need for our souls. –Linda Bond, Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, WA Nourish your soul with a new book from your local …
Jody Hadlock had some great questions for Linda Stewart Henley about her latest novel, Waterbury Winter. JH: Tell us in one or two sentences what your book is about. LSH: It’s about a man and his attempt to overcome problems that have prevented him from following his calling as an artist. JH: How did you …
From OregonLive/ The Oregonian September 4, 2021: The start of the new school year makes it a fitting time to pick up Portlander Margot Wood’s debut young adult novel, Fresh, a queer retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma that spans its protagonist’s freshman year of college. Quick recap for those who haven’t encountered Emma in a while: …
Until We Meet Again is an amazing book! Set in the present day, it follows a girl named Cassandra as she spends the summer at a beach house in Massachusetts. Cassandra meets Lawrence on the house’s private beach–except he claims that it is his private beach, and that the year is 1925! Cassandra soon finds that Lawrence’s life …
As I await the publication of my third book of short stories about Maine and northern New England, A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, I remember applying for a job in my twenties that I suspected (correctly, it turned out) would pay me for taking naps. The position involved running a …
How about some fairy tale horror set in Colonial New England? In Laird Hunt’s In the House in the Dark of the Woods, we have the story of a woman named Goody, who goes out one day to pick berries. Naturally, she stays out after dark and gets lost. But she gets found by a …
It all started with Sara Crewe. Not even book (A Little Princess) Sara Crewe, but Shirley Temple-movie Sara Crewe in “The Little Princess” (1939). That was when I first fell in love with the idea of boarding school, even if I may not have thought of it in that way at the time. That’s not …
An action-packed and suspenseful story set in a sleepy little town of Sidwell, Massachusetts. People’s items are disappearing, strange messages are painted on store fronts and road signs. Something is flying around and through the town during the night. Read this book to uncover the mystery! –Jinny, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID This middle …
