Through websites like Goodreads, NetGalley and Edelweiss, I get a bit of a sneak peek at some of the biggest titles set for release in upcoming months. Here are ten of the books being published this June that I’m most looking f...

The textbooks are shelved. The desks are empty. The days are quiet. Yes, it’s that time of the year. School is out for summer! For all of us English teachers, it’s the time of the year when we separate ourselves from the classi...

Philip Margolin’s latest novel, Worthy Brown’s Daughter, is an example of what makes reading historical fiction both entertaining and educational. Margolin competently explores the complexities of 1860s Portland, Oregon in an e...

oad trips are the perfect metaphor for life. They begin at home when you start packing a car and getting ready. Before you know it, you are out on the open road. Once the odometer punches a few miles, the scenery changes. Then,...

“Dear Mr. Richard Gere” is how Matthew Quick’s second novel for adults, The Good Luck of Right Now, begins. It’s not a one-time hello to the famous actor; instead, Mr. Gere gets a salutation at the start of every chapter, or le...

Most book lovers harbor a secret desire to own a bookstore. We’ve all imagined how we’d arrange each section just so, and we’ve pictured the joy that sharing our love for books with others would bring. That’s why the novel The ...

As The Collector of Lost Things opens, it is 1845 and English naturalist Eliot Saxby has set out on Captain Sykes’s Arctic-bound vessel to search for the last remaining traces of the great auk, a bird presumed extinct. His patr...