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Seasons is the first-person account of a chaotic year in the life of Danny O’Brien, a fictional marketing executive for a pharmaceutical company. Like the seasons of Earth, his life is full of highs and lows as he prepares to roll out a new drug while coping with the joys…

What do you do when looking back seems safer than looking forward? One summer day, I listened to hard words from a dear woman I had loved and admired for nearly twenty years. We were seated in her small room in a nursing home. My grandson was exploring every nook,…

There is much to enjoy in Bettie Boswell’s Hoping for Treasure. Leaping back and forth between post-World War II and the present, the author explores the lives of ordinary people dealing with challenges that are universal, from romance, to careers, to social conflicts. Spanning these periods is a tale of…

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Today I'd like to introduce Amy Vansant, author and businesswoman. Amy is the owner of AuthorsXP, an inexpensive and reliable service that helps authors connect with readers. Amy’s service is endorsed by the Alliance of Independent Authors. I have used her options several times in my own book publishing. Amy…

NOTE: Beginning today I have added my Mailchimp subscribers to my weekly blog list. I usually post book reviews on this site every Friday. If you're surprised to be getting this email, that's the reason. I hope to be adding other features to this site as time goes by. I…

Many books describe the problems of people with disabilities. Many others tell other people how to cope with them. Mark Haddon’s novel suggests what it’s like to be such a person. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Christopher Francis Boone compensates for his autism by solving…

One of the pleasures of reading is the surprise of discovering a new author. New to yourself, that is. Melanie Dobson was writing books long before I discovered The Winter Rose, a novel I chose randomly from a used bookstore. Hopping back and forth between the past and present, The…

Erik Larson has taken a risk in writing a book about Winston Churchill, already the subject of many biographies. In drawing on the diaries and correspondence of family members, personal aides and ministers, he sketches a gripping chronology of the Prime Minister’s first year in office, when Germany seemed poised…

Though I am not a fan of historical fiction, I cannot help admiring a novelist who backs up her narration with painstaking research. In Her Hidden Genius, Marie Benedict pays tribute to a forgotten scientist whose work laid the foundations of DNA research in post-War England. From the mid-1940s to the…