Do you like to read military-like action thrillers? If so, you will love Brad Thor’s second book featuring the most intriguing military unit in print today. The Athena Project features a unit of Delta Force called The Athena Project, first featured in Foreign Influence. What makes this unit different? They are smart, Delta Force trained, …
This is a quirky story in which two people with no apparent connection are offered a huge sum of money by an unknown benefactor to spend two hours together each week for a year. The characters are interesting and the slow revelation of the identity of their benefactor and why they were chosen keeps the …
Finn Murphy dropped out of college and has been driving a long haul moving truck for over 30 years, and wrote this great book about it all. I just could not put it down. He brings to life the seemingly mundane job of a mover in this rollicking story, sharing his intelligence and insights on …
Trouble in Rooster Paradise is a fun mystery set in 1950 Seattle and in 2003 in a Seattle area injury rehab center. 83 year old retired shamus (private detective) Gunnar Nilson is laid up in 2003 in a nursing home with a busted gam (leg). Josephine Tey used a similar gambit in The Daughter of Time, which …
Happy Independence Day, readers! The holiday weekend is almost upon us, which means you may be planning your long weekend summer reading (or your pilgrimages to independent bookstores during your days off). Independent bookstores around the country have put together unique and tantalizing summer reading recommendations for your reading pleasure. Check out this photo of …
Rose is deep in the “sweatpant years” raising three children, but every night, she returns to the same empowering island of adventure she has visited since she was six years old, where she’s a heroine and she’s always with her dream friend, Hugo. Then she meets Hugo in real life. Foley’s writing zings with vivid …
Lily and the Octopus is a profound book about all the important things in life — love, how to let go, how important it is to live in the moment, and how one big love can lead to another. And Lily, dear Lily, is at the center– a smart, movie-loving dog who would never pass …
When I find myself thinking about a book weeks after I’ve read it, quoting it to friends, and telling anecdotes from the story, I know I’ve found something special. This novel about the relationship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is one of those books. It feels so real I forget that I haven’t met …
It’s June and the weather here has been lovely–well, until today, which is cool and gray and occasionally rainy–and my thoughts have been on summertime. I don’t really do summertime things, being more of an indoors sort of person, but I like the idea of summertime things like gardening and barbecues and block parties and …
What? There’s beach-reading to be found on the poetry shelves? You bet, stretch out on the chaise and we’ll dip into a few. Sometimes the summer books that beckon are playful, quirky, maybe even refreshingly unsettling. James Tate’s contemporary poetry fables fit that definition to a T, and his latest collection, The Eternal Ones of …
