Twas’ the night before Christmas and all through the hive, not a bitty bee was buzzing, not one, sake’s alive. The swarm was all...

Ivy Cooper is 52 years old, newly divorced and raising her young son alone in a New York City apartment. She is surviving financially...

The beat goes on for the indomitable Cher in her new release, “Cher: The Memoir,” published in two parts, the next book hitting...

American writer Richard Powers has published 14 novels, including 2019’s “Overstory,” which won that year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction....

Thomas Fuller is the San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times.  His assignment is to write about California wildfires,...

Authors using a pen name (pseudonym) isn’t anything new. They have been doing it for centuries. Still, I was surprised when I discovered...

Clover kicks off November with three brilliant “Tail Wagging Reads,” darling, daring books about doggies. Hearts melt when our special...

If you’re like me you have some of her cookbooks, which include down-to-earth recipes for everyday meals. There’s not a hint of fussy in...

“A Reason to See You Again,” by Jamie Attenberg, is the story of the women in the Cohen family. The daughters and mother are in crisis,...

Best-selling author John Grisham, and John McCloskey, a pioneer in the Innocence Movement, relate 10 painful to-read stories of wrongly...

Beautifully written, “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney, opens with Peter, age 32, a Dublin lawyer, and his brother Ivan, age 22, a chess...

In August 1995 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from suburban Chicago, was visiting a cousin in the Delta region of northwestern...

“The Blue Hour,” by Paula Hawkins, is a testament to the author’s gift for creating mystique and psychological suspense through...

High-profile capitalists associated with the Gilded Age (1870-1900) were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Cornelius...

No one at the government psychiatric hospital would guess that the rigid, professional Dr. Mina Murray grew up a witch’s daughter in a...

British author Mark Haddon’s most recent book, “Dogs and Monsters.” is a collection of eight short stories, several of which are...

For me, author events are simultaneously inspiring and scary. During the event, I am inspired by the author as they share their writing...

The major story of our time is not the launch of artificial intelligence nor the contention in US politics, it is the continuing...

As usual Nicholas Sparks does not disappoint. “Counting Miracles” is a love story full of blessings and tragedies, about finding a place...

Journalist Sarah Smarsh is not bashful about sharing the details of her earliest years. She was born to an unwed 17-year-old mother with...