A sweet story of compassion and friendship set in a cozy Italian hotel. Give yourself a warm, sunny little holiday and read this one! –Annette, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Travel without having to wait for passport checks– shop destination-setting books at The Well-Read Moose and other independent bookstores.
Whenever your local librarian highly recommends a book that TJ Klune (author of The House in the Cerulean Sea) calls a transformative marvel, you should probably read that book. I immediately did, and as someone who has access to whatever she wants to read, this will be a book I come back to over and …
Shaun Bythell’s follow-up to Diary of a Bookseller is out this week. Confessions of a Bookseller picks up where Diary left off. Yes, Wigtown is still out in the ruralest of rural places in Scotland. Yes, people still don’t understand how used book stores work. Yes, Shaun still wrestles with his staff understanding where books …
Author Phaedra Patrick is expert at the feel-good, heartwarming, “coming of age” novels for the 50ish set of late bloomers. Her colorful characters are relatable and quirky. In her latest book, we meet Martha, who is suffocating from her need to be needed, until a kind-hearted bookshop owner finds a book he thinks she will …
By all the signs by which I count, summer is here. Our roses are blooming, the farmer’s market has begun, the days are so long we often go to bed before dark, and it’s so hot some days I can’t be in my house in the afternoon. The heat isn’t as much of a problem …
