One summer in high school, I worked on the maintenance crew at an outdoor musical theater. I had a tough-as-nails boss named Smitty who worked us all to the bone. It was hard, unpleasant labor. We cleaned the 3,000 seat theater and the men’s and women’s bathrooms after every per...
Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma’s books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won’t ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done ju...
Alone with a Tasman Tiger (Chic Charlie) by Jane Ellyson A Room for Murder (Charlie Kingsley Mysteries) by Michele Pariza Wacek A Corpse Among the Carolers (A Food Blogger Mystery) by Debra Sennefelder When the Carnival Came: An Olivia Penn Mystery by Kathleen Bailey Hands On Homicide (Ma...
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard (Atlantic Books, £16.99) Teenager Odile lives in one of a series of valleys, divided not by lakes and mountains but time. The valley to the west is her own is twenty years in the past; to the east is the same place twenty years in the...
As we bid 2015 adieu and say hello to 2016, it’s time to start looking forward to the plethora of books that await us in the new year. Sure, there arefantastic picture booksand a host ofgreat YA novels, but for my money, middle grade is where it’s at in the next twelve months...
as a teenager there were times when Irène had to stand aside and watch other girls being harassed by boys while no one even looked at her. At the Balls, she was the only one who was never asked to dance. The turning point came on the day a friend from her school came to visit he...
middle of all that coding he took a sabbatical to write a non-fiction book calledEarthdream(Green Books, 1990), a work of ecophilosophy. With his family having spread its wings, he has found the space to pick up his camera and his pen again, pursuing a number of photography and ...
one of my favorite Young Adult books of all time and was a great summer read… I read it on a yoga retreat in Sag Harbor several years ago. When I opened up the book, I was surprised (and a little bummed) that it was YA. Was this going to be another fluffy high school romance?
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Elizabeth McKenna’slove of books reaches back to her childhood, where her tastes ranged from Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys to Stephen King’s horror stories. Her novels reflect her mercurial temperament and include romances, mysteries, and suspense. Some are “clean,” and some are “naughty...