Book Reviews

In 'Everything We Keep' by Kerry Lonsdale, a young woman's wedding day becomes the funeral day for the fiancé she had planned to marry. As she picks up the pieces of her life and moves on, she finds that what she thinks she knows is not the truth, and that everything leading up to her new life has been a lie. Can she find out what has happened to her fiancé and if he is really alive?

In Tom Perrotta's 'Mrs. Fletcher,' a forty-six-year-old fights empty nest syndrome with porn, gender studies, and unexpected text messages.

For Paz, language means more than just syntax and grammar; his "world before language exists" is something pre-life, a universe of abstraction that monkeys can't imagine but poets can.

In 'Upheaval: The Refugee Trek Through Europe' Navid Kermani shines a light in the dark spaces of our current world and exposes the dirty and shameful way we treat our fellow human beings.

Swan Huntley's 'The Goddesses' presents a page-turning narrative of female empowerment and a binding conviction that sisters can do it for themselves, even if sometimes the sisters not what they seem to be.

In 'The Trial of Prisoner 043' author Terry Jastrow provocatively imagines George W. Bush being tried for war crimes because of the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Is 'The Reason You're Alive' by Matthew Quick a literary work in the mold of The Catcher in the Rye?

New book, 'The Efficiency Playbook,' encourages readers to make being efficient into a purposeful game.

'Samaritans' by Jonathan Lynn skewers American healthcare system and the political arguments over the Affordable Care Act.

Royal biographer provides interesting perspective on World War I through biographic approach using European monarchs