I'm in awe of Maggie's masterful storytelling, her delicate balance of suspense and poetic language, ger juxtaposition of words to create a world unto themselves. Examples? Ferocious fear. ...the apologetic creep of winter. The characters soak into the pages of her story and then leap out in three dimensions.
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)
"O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you…
Tim O'Brien is a poet with a lyrical, rhythmic sense of language. But he doesn't spare the shock and tragedy of war. He repeats refrains like the best of epic storytellers. What a marvel to be centered through is recounts into the eye of a storm called Vietnam. Highly recommend for its timelessness even though we too quickly forget the soldiers and conflicts that shape and haunt their lives.
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.
But while Vietnam is central to 'The Things They Carried', it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we…
I'm not a true crime reader, but Kathryn Canavan's book had me from the get go. She is a former crime reporter and knew the incident first-hand. She steeps the reader into every moment of an actual crime that rivals any fictionalized story without embellishing or sensationalizing the beats of the account. Her simplicity keeps it riveting and raw, a challenge she meets and exceeds!
A meticulously researched page-turner about one of the Philadelphia suburbs' most shocking 20th-century crimes. A gunman broke into Jack and Peggy Abt's house moments after the last family member left for the day. He took a seat next to the upright piano in the living room and waited silently for 11 hours. He didn't eat. He didn't sleep. He didn't watch television.
People expect things to go bump in the night, but, in 1976, most adults never fretted a stranger would invade the sanctity of their home in the middle of the day. Six people walked through the kitchen door…
Fourteen-year-old Lori Hopkins, an only child, loses her parents to a devastating storm while she sleeps soundly in a fallout shelter she decorated for Christmas. Her grandmother, Lottie, discovers Lori as rescue workers sift through the above-ground carnage.
Lori’s sudden loss of family leads to a life in harm's way as an acclaimed photojournalist to test out her own fate and destiny. Through her camera’s lens, she witnesses historic milestones in the United States and world stage that haunt her already damaged psyche. A series of adventures and misadventures follow her to the cultural cities of Europe, the jungles of Vietnam, the bustle of New York City, and Boston, and finally home in the wide plains of Texas. Lori’s personal relationships, a patchwork of disappointments and triumphs, shape her paramount journey to the truth.
