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  • The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

              When New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson (Devil in the White City; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania) moved to New York five years ago, he had what he describes as a revelation. He had watched, horrified, as 911 unfolded on CNN.           “But I wondered what was it like for…

  • The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly

    A beautiful Hollywood star; a handsome rich prince. It should have been perfect. But, of course, it wasn’t.

  • The Other Mrs.

             After staying up late reading The Other Mrs. by Chicago author Mary Kubica, I have a word of advice for women out there. If you’re husband’s sister commits suicide and her home on a remote island off the coast of Maine is yours if you agree to live there and take care of her…

  • Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

    Tightrope tells the tale of an America that is still in the process of losing well-paying jobs, where people work two or more jobs just to make ends meet, where one illness can turn into a bankruptcy for those who are uninsured or underinsured and where opioids and other drugs lead to incarceration, early death…

  • How Quickly She Disappears

                Intrigued by the tales his grandparents told of living in Tanacross, a small Alaskan village back in the late 1930s, Indiana author Raymond Fleischmann has woven a mystery set in that time frame and location.             “I grew up hearing their stories about Alaska, the cold, the isolation, the long days and the long…

  • MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES

    Class Mom meets Small Admissions in MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES, a wryly-observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High–the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle–and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. A former teacher, Kathleen West keeps us amused and amazed in her…

  • Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

    Ronan Farrow’s book reads like a fast-paced mystery/thriller with hired spies, tapped phones, double and triple crosses, stalking by hired thugs and threats.

  • Old School Love and Why It Works

    “We’ve had hard times, but we have resilience and we always knew we wanted to be together,” says Rev Run, front man of Run-DMC about how he and his wife make their marriage work.

  • The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

    “I live just a few blocks from Lake Michigan and I’m not sure I would have move back to Wisconsin after living in Utah and Idaho after college if it the lake wasn’t here,” says Dan Egan, a senior water policy fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences. “Milwaukee wouldn’t be Milwaukee…

  • F*ck Your Diet and Other Things My Diet Tells Me

    “Our food choices and our image of ourselves are part of our culture.,” says Chloe Hilliard.