Over the Edge?

by | Sep 20, 2013 | Book Reviews

September 20: “Try to picture how they set forth, on ships little larger than fishing smacks, to explore the unknown, to sail they knew not wither, lost in the infinite, ceaselessly in peril, exposed to all the vicissitudes of storm, to every kind of...

Eloquent Exit

by | Sep 19, 2013 | Book Reviews

September 19: “Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct;…”  

What to Read? Recommendations from Carrie Brown

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Book Reviews

Carrie Brown — author of among other titles, the 1998 Discover Award winner Rose’s Garden, paperback favorite The Rope Walk, and now The Last First Day, an indelible portrait of a woman’s life and the happiness she ultimately, and perhaps...

The Facades

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Book Reviews

A popular opera singer vanishes in a depressed Midwest city, where her timid husband must descend into an underworld of defiant librarians, crazed architects, and apocalypse fanatics to find her.  A Discover Great New Writers selection.