To Ava's surprise, when they got to the library, Luke was presiding over the drinks and snacks rather than Emma. He looked so young s...

Ellie Alexander writes a series of Bakeshop Mysteries set in Ashland, Oregon. The series features Jules Capshaw, who owns a bakery and cafe ...

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Amanda Cross is the pen name of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun , a tenured English lit professor at Columbia University. She wrote many non-ficti...

I was the one who had married him, and here he was, charging in on his white horse to rescue me. Or, more likely, to rescue himself. Th...

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Diana Abu-Jaber 's new memoir, Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family , celebrates the author's cross-cultural herita...

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So in the fall of 1932, when she was sixteen going on seventeen, she went to live with Grace in town. Grace's personality hadn't c...

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Wendy Gordon 's debut novel, Wrong Highway , gives fresh energy to the story of a frazzled suburban mom trying to meet her family ob...

But I haven't written. Not for two, three, four months: This becomes frightening to me. -- Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food ...

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Everything was darkness and light, black and white, random dots. She could make out the difference between the white lines and the black ...

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Throw Back Thursday This review of Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones was first posted on April 2, 2008. Mones is the author of se...

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