Well, here it is, a new month and a new year. We hope everyone had a great holiday, with lots of good books to while away the evenings...

Joan Schweighardt interviews Faye Rapaport DesPres about her children's book series featuring stray cats.

Books We Loved in Dec. 2021, by Jenny Bayliss, Jean Meltzer, and Jinny Webber

The nights are getting longer, the days colder, and the holidays fast approaching. All good reasons for stocking up on some great books....

We were thrilled to have the chance to interview G.P. Gottlieb, a true renaissance woman, for our October Spotlight feature. G.P. is a...

Books We Loved in October 2021, by Amy Bloom, Ilene Schneider, and Rowenna Miller

Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love (Gallery Books, 2021) I was sort of angry when I read the synopsis for To Sir, With Love by Lauren Layne....

As we approach the last full month of summer (and where did those last two months go?), we still have time for long, lazy days of...

Linda Browning, It Otter Be a Crime (Amazon, 2021) If you enjoyed the Emmy-award-winning The Golden Girls TV series back in the day, then...

Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (Henry Holt, 2021) I read Shadow and Bone after watching the fantasy Netflix series of the same name. It’s...

Chang-Rae Lee, My Year Abroad (Riverhead Books, 2021) My Year Abroad is divided into chapters describing narrator Tiller Bardmon’s life...

Anne Louise Bannon, Death of the Zanjero (Healcroft House, 2018) It’s 1870, and Maddie Wilcox, a young widow supporting herself by...

Nina Bocci, The Ingredients of You and Me (Gallery Books, 2020) Miscommunication is a commonly used plot device in romance novels, and if...

Lots of good picks here, and—if you enjoy historical fiction set in a lesser-known time and place (sixteenth-century Russia), don’t miss...

Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze (Avon, 2020) Catalina Baylor is the titular Prime of House Baylor, where she and her crew, including her...

Rachael Bloome, The Secret in Sandcastles (Secret Garden Press, 2020) This novel, the third in Rachael Bloome's Poppy Creek series,...

Jennifer Ashley, Death below Stairs (Berkley, 2018) When Galit Gottlieb, the host of New Books in Literature and a mystery writer...

Books We Loved in October by Catriona Innes, Patricia Morrisroe, Eleanor Parker Sapia, and G. Willow Wilson.

Books We Loved in September 2020: Heather Bell Adams, Linda Kass, Madeline Miller, and Tea Obrecht

Books we loved in Aug. 2020: P.K. Adams, Emily Martin, Deb Olin Unferth, and Heather Webber