Something Fresh – P.G. Wodehouse The Random House Group Limited – Arrow Books $21.95 For virtually 100 years there has been no writer in Merrie Olde England to match P.…
A true World War II story of danger and bravery – incredible bravery – of men who were primarily in the business of rescuing fliers and other US military around…
Searching for Caleb is a book that focuses on relationships among generations of the Peck family of Baltimore. While it is lively narrative all the way – author Anne Tyler…
The Good Nurse is a true non-fiction book. It follows the career of a killer who has (at least) a possible 300 deaths to his credit. His name is Charles…
WILLIAMSTOWN – Bloomsday was recently celebrated in the town, thanks to Karl Mullen and John Strachan who planned the day, as they did last year. This year, with one or…
The Orchardist is a straight story – a first novel – but without the psychological twists that seem to characterize contemporary fiction. In more or less the mid-19th century, the…
Advertised as a book of short stories – 13 of them – Olive Kitteridge is actually separate chapters of a narrative in which each character comes at the reader with…
A lovely old Chinese proverb opens this book: “Women hold up half the sky.” It represents the faith and hope with which the authors write this remarkable book. Everyone should…
In his first year, Jake Barnett could recite the alphabet forward and backward and knew words in French, Spanish and Chinese, but at 16 months, he was diagnosed with Asperger…
Gone Girl is an extraordinary novel. A happily married woman, Amy, customarily sets up an anniversary present for her husband, Nick, in a place and of a nature that represents…