On 12 June, 2005, a fifty-year-old man stood up in front of a crowd of students at Stanford University and spoke of his campus days as a ...

Invasion had come to the town of Adano. -- A Bell for Adano by John Hersey. Hersey's Pulitzer-winning novel is the story of an Am...

No matter how many logs I fed the woodstove, it was always well below freezing in the cabin the next morning. . . .  It got so bad I had t...

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The Pothunters is P. G. Wodehouse 's first book, originally published in 1902. It's a schoolboy story set in an English boarding...

It is very exciting to me that Dana at Let's Book It is featuring Rose City Reader as her Blog of the Week . And, no, we aren't r...

My pack, heavy with rocks, dug into my back as I hiked across the uneven ground twenty miles (32 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle. -- Mi...

The full title of Mark Twain's first published book gives, in quaint – and, one expects, tongue-in-cheek – 19th Century style, a syno...

Gwenda was eight years old, but she was not afraid of the dark. -- World Without End by Ken Follett. This is the sequel to the fabulous ...

The Mexican got up from the couch, calmly, and took a step toward Walker, sending a ripple of tension across the room.  The rest of the bi...

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Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999) was an Irish-born author best known for her complex but entertaining philosophical novels.  Dame Iris, as she...

It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage. --...

Alvaro de Padilla was overcome by dread as his visions dissipated and focus returned to his tired eyes. -- The Devil's Elixir by Ray...

  I might as well say, right from the jump: it wasn't my usual kind of job. -- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, about the myst...

The Republic of Venice existed from the late 7th century until 1797 and was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice, or La Se...

Alfred Edelman, with your eyes I see anew my own native place. A side-swept entrance opens into a tunnel leading towards light, towa...

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Lenhardt Stevens is the author of The Hapless Valet , an offbeat mystery featuring Draper Burns, valet and general troubleshooter for a gl...

Thomas Cahill takes some grief for his Hinges of History books being "pop history" and giving only entertaining overviews. But...

Alfred Edelman: Urban Compositions is the second in a series of books that feature the photographic work of Alfred Edelman. -- from the In...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) is the first novel in John  le Carré's "Karla Trilogy" featuring MI6 agent George Smil...

Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return gree...

While I answered her, though, I was wondering if I would still love Marie if she owned a car.  I wanted to think so, but I wasn't sure...

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  Blood Sport is one of Dick Francis 's earlier novels, first published in 1967. It is edgier than most of his mysteries, and, in so...

This morning, when I put on my pants, I went ahead and just rolled them up right away. -- A Simple Machine, Like the Lever by Evan P. Sch...