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A good novel, insights on publishing - (opens the original)
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For the dawning of the end of summer, Libby Page’s “This Book Made Me Think of You” (Berkley, 2026, 416 pages) is a great fit. Like a tall glass of iced tea, it’s refreshing, sweet, and satisfying, a novel you can sip in your free time that draws you back for more. It’s January in London, and young Tilly Nightingale, still racked by grief over her beloved husband Joe’s death six months earlier, receives a call from a local bookshop that she has a birthday gift from him. An editor and bibliophile
Of time and a river: two books, two reviews - (opens the original)
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Let’s kick off today’s book talk with Lance Holland’s “The Little Tennessee River: Following the Cherokee Path” (The History Press, 2026, 224 pages). In his story of this river, Holland takes an interesting approach to the past. He focuses our attention on the many transitions and developments in transportation and industry which the passage of time has brought to our mountains: the coming of the European settlers, the opening up of the mountains along the river with trails and rough roads, the
Ancient political intrigue still relevant today - (opens the original)
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Surely that one-liner from Ring Lardner’s short story “The Young Immigrunts” — and no, that’s not a misspelling — constitutes one of the most humorous short sentences in all of literature. You don’t need to know a single detail about the story’s plot for “‘Shut up,’ he explained” to bring a chuckle. In “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome” (Gallery Books, 2007, 305 pages), author Robert Harris laces his account of the rise of young Marcus Tullius Cicero to power with humor as well. One line in par
Exploring family feuds and broken bonds - (opens the original)
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In the Introduction to her new book, “No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them” (Forum Books, September 8, 2026, 288 pages), cultural commentator, author and mother of six Noelle Mering writes, “If you are in the situation of having had to cut contact over an abusive relationship, this phenomenon and this book aren’t about you.” This phenomenon to which Mering refers is the no contact movement, which has stormed social media and our culture o
Love, loss, and the ghosts we carry - (opens the original)
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“Now, in my eight-second year, my allegiance is to ghosts.” So the unnamed 82-year-old narrator declares early on in Mark Helprin’s novel “Elegy in Blue” (Harry N. Abrams, 2026, 256 pages). He then proceeds to blend his present with his past, a life turned upside down by the murder of his beloved wife, the destruction by arson of nearly all that he owned, his wealth wiped away by a vengeful set of crazed parents and a legal system gone awry, and the challenge of battling an evil drug cartel that
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