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During World War II, the United States Marine Corps had fought their way through the islands of the Pacific until they reached and captured the island of Guadalcanal. There, on Christmas Eve of 1944, the marines could forget about the war and play the game they loved: football.
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The last of Fredrik Backman’s Beartown trilogy, “The Winners” is a spectacular literary hat trick and Backman, an MVP.
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Stephen King’s latest novel "Fairy Tale" is about a young man who discovers a portal to another world in dire need of his help.
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For 20 years, Author Heather Mcghee searched for causes and solutions to economic inequality in America. Why in a country of such wealth could everyone…
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Ross Gay’s collection of lyric essays written over the course of one year is this year’s One Book One Community selection. Dan Compton has this month’s…
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Get ready to cheer for the unlikely hero of the summer – a middle school science teacher. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, takes its readers on a…
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Resisting processed food might be less a matter of willpower than a fight with addiction similar to tobacco, according to Michael Moss in his new book,…
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Author Christina Baker Kline’s latest historical novelsheds light onthe harsh penal system in nineteenth-century England and the impact of colonization in…
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If you can spend hours in little bookstores, often prefer a good book to a live person, love the way books smell, and seek out libraries when you’re on…
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Just over a hundred years ago, Americans were battling over workers’ rights, police brutality, freedom of speech, and political corruption in ways that…