Taking him in without a warrant was a skate along the knife-edge of the Fourth Amendment, but once she had a confession protocol wouldn...

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION The  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (formerly called the Prize for the Novel) has been awarded since 1918 for ...

What books came into your house last week? I got two new memoirs by Holocaust survivors. Both add moving and beautiful voices to this impo...

Author Lisa Braver Moss ' new novel Shrug is drawn from her own tumultuous adolescence in 1960s Berkeley, California. Moss still liv...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! I have two books again this week, one I am reading n...

Mimi Bull grew up in New England, the adopted daughter of an older single mother who raised her alongside her adult "sister" wh...

I have two teasers this week because I have stacks of new books on my desk! These types of plants may not be as easy to grow as tomatoe...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please pardon my delay this week. I was arguing an a...

I have two teasers today because I have so many new books stacked up on my desk. Just like I've double dipped for Book Beginnings posts ...

Three new books came my way last week: Beyond a Reasonable Stout: A Sloan Krause Mystery by Ellie Alexander . This is the third mystery...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! I have two again this week because my stack of new b...

It was gloomy at the store, but somehow business went on; people kept coming in for cigarettes or for an issue of Ramparts or Jaques Lous...

I love reading and blogging about books. My other favorite hobby is stationery. I love sending paper invitations for parties. I try to use (...

Two nonfiction books about work came my way last week. They are alike in their topic, but quite different in their subject matter and style....

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING I have two this week because I h...

John Rebus is the kind of curmudgeon cop I love for the hero of a detective series. He’s a loner, he drinks too much, eats bad food, is o...