All Books
- 4 audiobooks that tell tales about women Check out these stories by and about women.
- 'Learning to Swear in America' features lively characters, exciting astrophysics
Katie Kennedy’s firecracker novel about culture shock, astrophysics, and maybe the end of the world, is a page-turner.
- Roald Dahl: back in the spotlight
Steven Spielberg’s new film adaptation of a Roald Dahl story has Dahl being remembered as a children's book author with a dark sense of humor. But his stories for adults are typically more macabre.
- 'Another Brooklyn' tells of growing up female, black in 1970s Brooklyn
In her trademark lyrical prose, Jacqueline Woodson reflects on the dramas and traumas of growing up in pre-gentrification Brooklyn.
- 'The House at the Edge of Night' makes a dreamy vacation read
On a mystic island south and east of Sicily, a spurned doctor and his family turn their home into a convivial gathering place for locals.
- Do book lovers live longer?
Regular book reading appears to promote a 'significant survival advantage,' says a Yale University study.
- 'To the Bright Edge of the World' hauntingly portrays Alaskan wilderness
Eowyn Ivey's second novel set in Alaska in 1885 follows a married couple into parallel tribulations, as he explores the wilderness and she faces a difficult pregnancy.
- How Jimmy Carter became the best ex-president
Depressed and isolated after his loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, Carter found a new mission and changed the world
- 'How the Post Office Created America' is a love letter to an institution in peril
Gallagher argues that far from merely existing as an important part of American society, the post office actually shaped American history and did much to create the United States that we know today.