Karen’s pick of the week: The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
A riveting novel of deception and murder.
Fall Book Buzz
Readers’ Advisor Erica O’Rourke talks up some of the season’s best and most buzzed about books. If you need some new reading suggestions or just want to know what titles are worth adding to your TBR pile, you won’t want to miss this episode. In This Episode Returning FavoritesColson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle Anthony Doerr, Cloud…
Ellen’s Pick of the Week: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
“The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.” ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad Cora, the teenage protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, is an unlikely…
Pick of the Week: Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
Jo is an out and proud lesbian. Her father is the radio famous Reverend Gordon. Before Jo’s senior year of high school, her dad marries Elizabeth (whom Jo calls Three) and moves them from Atlanta and all of Jo’s friends to Elizabeth’s small hometown of Rome, Georgia. Jo’s dad asks her to go back into…
Ellen’s Pick of the Week: Before the Fall
A private jet ferrying eleven people from Martha’s Vineyard back to New York City one summer night plunges into the water sixteen minutes after takeoff and only two passengers survive—-Scott Burroughs, a last-minute add to the flight and the ten-year-old son of another passenger, the head of a controversial television news station about to be…
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