What price are you willing to pay to take charge of your own life? In a small French village in 1714, Adeline LaRue is faced with such a...

Those who enjoyed Garrison Keillor’s weekly radio program “A Prairie Home Companion,” broadcast for four decades on National Public...

Read "Baking Your Way Through the Holidays" and see the author in action. 'Tis the season to be baking, and Benedictine monk and PBS host...

"Begin Again" is a rugged analysis and harsh critique of white supremacy and American exceptionalism. Author Eddie Glaude Jr. observes...

Betty Smith wrote four books, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” (1943) considered to be a classic, is still in high school libraries. Her other...

The year is 1909, the location Spokane, Washington. The Industrial Workers of the World, the “Wobblies,” are hard at work in their...

“White Ivy: A Novel,” by Susie Yang, is a coming of age story as well as a drama with romance and suspense. It’s the story Ivy Lin, born...

Isabel Wilkerson brilliantly explains and examines how the United States has been shaped as a nation by what Wilkerson calls the silent...

“Bronte’s Mistress,” by Finola Austin, caught my eye on the New Books Shelf at the public library. I read everything I can get my hands...

We’ve all heard the story of “Beauty and the Beast,” but what happens after the so-called “happily ever after?” In “Rebel Rose,” by Emma...

I felt like I was drinking coffee with a friend as I read this memoir by Jacqueline Winspear, a baby boomer in her mid 60s. In her newest...

“Moonflower Murders,” by Anthony Horowitz, is a captivating mystery written in the vein of traditional mystery writers such as Agatha...

Former war correspondent and skilled storyteller Scott Anderson has written an elucidating chronicle of four U.S. spies and their...

Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck is the subject of William Souder’s biography “Mad at the World.” Souder has...

Title character John Ames Boughton is one of the more interesting characters in "Jack," the latest of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels....

“The Dirty South,” by John Connolly, is a murder mystery thriller in spades. Actually, the book focuses on several murders. The story...

Death is difficult for adults to handle, the finality and loss overwhelmingly. For children, death can be doubly hard. Books can help...

It is the week before Christmas, 1957. Novice Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been dispatched by headquarters in Dublin to...

Cary Grant was in Davenport, Iowa, twice in his life. He was part of a vaudeville act performing there in 1925. He was known as Archie...

Phillip K. Howard, a lawyer and civic leader, is the founder of Common Good, a nonpartisan nonprofit whose mission is to simplify...