"A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South" by Ben Montgomery; Little, Bro…
As I write this, I'm sitting at my computer on a small enclosed porch in the upstairs of my house. I am, essentially, in the treetops. From th…
"Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery" by Rosalie Knecht; Tin House (256 pages, $15.95) ——— "Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery" is not a mystery. Rosalie Kne…
"The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Killer" by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker; Dey St. (304 pages, $16.99) ——— The na…
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"Bloodline" by Jess Lourey; Thomas & Mercer (352 pages, $15.95) ——— Jess Lourey channels bits of “The Stepford Wives” and “Rosemary’s Baby…
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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers…
"Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me" by Ace Atkins; G.P. Putnam’s Sons (306 pages, $27) ——— Bad people with lots of money use it to i…
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"A Crooked Tree" by Una Mannion; Harper (320 pages, $27.99) ——— Una Mannion’s perceptive debut “A Crooked Tree” pinpoints the exact moment whe…
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“Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell us About our History and Ourselves” by Keith Lowe; William Collins (302 pages, $29.99) …
Someone must leap into the abyss. And that someone is Charles Soule, son of Milwaukee and Grand Rapids, now keeper of the Jedi. Picture a job …
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In the midst of a real-life blizzard, it can be wonderful meta-reading when it’s snowing inside your book as well. Chill out with one of these novels.
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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers …
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers …
Following the Christmas Day release of "Bridgerton" on Netflix, demand for the books behind the series has skyrocketed — and so has their cost…
In the 1978 novel "The Turner Diaries," an underground revolutionary group of self-proclaimed patriots known as "the Organization" attacks the…
"A Stranger at the Door" by Jason Pinter; Thomas & Mercer (392 pages, $15.95) ——— Jason Pinter confidently delivers a solid police procedu…
It's a new year, and time for hope and self-examination and ... maybe some new books? Visit your local bookstore and wish them well for 2021 —…
For more than 25 years, millions of people have awakened and grabbed not their phones, but paper, filling stream-of-consciousness "Morning Pag…
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