by Site Owner | Apr 4, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Travel
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Jonglez Publishing Formats: Hardcover Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] From an ice hotel in Quebec to suspended tents in New Caledonia, this new publication from...
by Site Owner | Mar 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Amy Tan ECCO, $29.99, 589 pages The story begins with Violet Minturn, a headstrong young Asian-American girl who lives with her mother in Shanghai, China. The year is 1905 and her mother is the owner of the Hidden Jade Path, one of the rapidly growing city’s...
by Site Owner | Feb 18, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories
By Nora Ephron Alfred A. Knopf, $35.00, 555 pages Nora Ephron, who died at the age of 71 in 2012, was a prolific and popular social commentator – first as a journalist and later as the author of screenplays, essays and blog postings. From the beginning, her...
by Site Owner | Feb 13, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Historical Fiction
By Jo Baker Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 332 pages Generations of readers have been charmed by the comings and goings of the Bennet Family of Longbourn Hall, their friends, neighbors, and relatives. First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice follows the five sisters as...
by Site Owner | Feb 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Javier Marias, Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 338 pages It is the habit of María Dolz, a prudent young woman who works in a nearby publishing house, to have breakfast every morning before work at a certain café in Madrid. There, she...