In Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery Paul Collins explores a little known criminal »
Book Club
With this eagerly anticipated new book, fantasy author Neil Gaiman (Coraline, American Gods) delivers his first novel for adults since the New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. In The Ocean at the »
The English Manor house novel gets flipped on its head in Kevin Kwan’s hilarious take on the lavish culture of Asia’s jet set. As the wedding of the season approaches — think »
Book of the Week: Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who won the Orange Prize for her previous novel Half of a Yellow Sun, delivers an enthralling commentary on race, identity, nationality, difference, loneliness, aspiration, and love in Americanah. »
Book of the Week: Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed
The beloved author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns takes readers from his home country of Afghanistan, to Paris, San Francisco and the Greek Islands in this multi-generational epic. As in his »
Five Must-Read Memoirs
What’s the enduring appeal of the memoir? British novelist George Meredith called them “the backstairs of history.” A personal narrative gives readers access to worlds and experiences they don’t normally get to »
Book of the Week: Dan Brown’s Inferno
It’s nothing short of a blockbuster event when Dan Brown publishes a new novel. The (uber) best-selling author (over 200 million books sold worldwide) brings readers another adventure with Robert Langdon, the »
Travel Back In Time With Historical Fiction
Whether you want to experience the cultural hotbed of 1920s Paris or the dazzling world of twelfth century Japan, all you have to do is pick up one of these recent novels. Be warned, you could get lost in their pages for centuries. »
BOOK OF THE WEEK: THE GREAT GATSBY BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
There’s no denying that Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is polarizing. Critics seem to either love it or hate it. But it seems the source »
Five Great Books for Mother’s Day
From narrative cookbooks to engaging memoirs to fantastic fiction, these titles make for the ideal Mother’s Day gifts — whether you them give away or to yourself for some much deserved you-time. »
BOOK OF THE WEEK — Z: A NOVEL OF ZELDA FITZGERALD BY THERESE ANNE FOWLER
Rich in period detail and lyrically written, Therese Anne Fowler delivers a mesmerizing portrait of the complicated relationship between Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Told from the perspective of our flawed heroine, »
