Melissa Bank, author of the bestselling novel, The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is back with her long awaited second novel, The Wonder Spot, starring Sophie Applebaum, "a young ... Read More

Armed with her unwavering faith and prejudices, Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, Victorian Christian children's book writer, dispensed her assessments of places she had never been and people she had never ... Read More

Day 3. The final day. What books are being stowed in mesh bags and dragged to the sand this summer? Join me for the third and final ... Read More

Day 2. You know you get some funny looks walking up to strangers reading at the beach, but I'm out here plumbing the shores of Ocean Isle Beach to ... Read More

I'm compulsive about asking people what it is they're reading. I've been on vacation four days now and I can't stand it anymore. I'm going to accost the ... Read More

For Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's thirty-second birthday, she gets an unusual gift: a homicide call out. The crime scene: the elite Hillside neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The victim: hotshot ... Read More

You know what Dad wants. He wants a sea kayak, a gas grill, or one of those Segway personal transport devices. But you're too cheap to get him any of ... Read More

What would you read if you had the time? What would you learn if you could? Steve Leveen's Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life could gain you a ... Read More

Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. Nick, his own life unsettled, was living alternatively in ... Read More

With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, ... Read More

Every writer, unpublished to bestselling, faces rejection from literary agents, editors, publishers, critics, even loved ones. In this collection of conversations, twenty-three successful authors talk about these experiences: anecdotes ... Read More