Good sports writing should appeal not only to fans but also to readers with no special connection to a sport, says Alyson Rudd, chair of the judging panel of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. She talks us through the six excellent books that made the 2024 shortlist, from ...
It’s about a forty-five year old woman who has grown-up children and whose husband is going away for work for six months. She is at a loss with what to do with herself, but she happens to be fluent in several languages and gets hired by a global foods company. She goes off to ...
which premiered in October 2014 and went on to win two of the four Emmys for which it was nominated (outstanding sound mixing for nonfiction programming and outstanding sound editing for nonfiction programming). Described by Grohl as a love letter to the history of American music,Sonic Highways...
If you’re in the mood for a well-written page-turner, don’t miss this novel about two lonely women in the isolated college town of Sewanee, Tennessee who are both hiding painful secrets. Jennifer Young and her 4-year-old son move in near 91-year-old retired nurse Margaret Riley, and...
The majority of books written for preschool age children address the preschoolers and kindergartners. Two-thirds of these are fiction books, usually fairy-tales, while only 1/3 of them are nonfiction and are mainly about animals. The majority of children's books for 1–6 year olds published...
Last year I shared some of our favorite childrens books about women for Women’s History Month, but there are just too many fabulous books to get them all in one list.So I’ve created the 2nd list of favorite books about women in history that I’ve read to my boys… oh yes… my ...
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are. Through evocative illustrations and sharp humor, Bell examine...
really cared about the seventeen year old boy narrator and the Mexican family he lives with for a summer. I don’t think I’ve ever read before about the tension between a person with some money and people with almost no money– people who are actually in daily contact and like each oth...
dave eggers bristles with humor and bottomless compassion for his fellow man. it begins during valentino achak deng’s first year in america after having traveled hundreds of miles as one of the so-called lost boys of sudan. i wasn’t sure about the tenure or specific arc of the narrative...
life, behind him: his happy childhood, his mad ambitions, his bitter disappointments, his career as a bureaucrat, his expulsion for negligence, his marriage to a bag, and finally, after many increasingly unbrilliant trades, that of janitor, an old canker putting an end to this sad life, ...