The Purchase by Linda Spalding

The Purchase A NovelWritten by Linda SpaldingHardcover, 320 pages | Pantheon | Fiction – Historical; Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Family Saga | $25.95 | August 6, 2013 | 978-0-307-90841-4 (0-307-90841-0)Winner of Canada’s 2012 Governor...

A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee

A Thousand Pardons A NovelWritten by Jonathan DeeTrade Paperback, 240 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Family Life; Fiction – Contemporary Women | $15.00 | August 6, 2013 | 978-0-8129-8338-8 (0-8129-8338-6)For...

Sitting with Shakers

August 6: Mother Ann Lee and a handful of Shaker followers arrived in America on this day in 1774. The Shakers (the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing) found many applications of Mother Ann’s famous advice to “Put your hands to...

Bandstand Business

August 5: American Bandstand debuted on this day in 1957. While not the first television dance party, the Philadelphia-based show was the first to be broadcast live, daily, and nationally. The show “signaled the arrival of teenage culture in the...

Byzantium

The rise and fall of the ancient Greek metropolis is marvelously reimagined in Ben Stroud’s debut story collection, as it traverses the globe from Berlin to Lake Michigan.