Bayou Bargain

December 20: “Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North & South is to be peopled…”  

Lonely Victory

December 19: “I am at the lowest beatest ebb of my life, trapped by the police, ‘retained in dismal places,’ scorned and ‘cheated’ by my friends…”  

Laurie R. King

The author of The Bones of Paris on reading as la joie de vivre, and the books that inspired her thriller of France’s roaring 1920s.

Last-Last-Last-Minute Gift Guide

  For when a bottle of wine is not – for reasons economic, legal, religious, or medical – an option.   PERSONALIZED BOOKMARK   The only thing better than a selfie of you is a selfie of you reminding your nearest and dearest where they left...