New Release Tuesday is back again! Today's list is short, but there are some great books! What are you bringing home today? A Song and a Prayer by Loretta Lynn and Kim McLean - several country music legends have books coming out in 2023, but Loretta's is the only posthumous release planned. This book of … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 5/23/23
Time for new books! Today sees the launch of a great biography, some interesting fictions, and great kids books. What are you picking up today? King: A Life by Jonathan Eig - this is the first biography of MLK Jr. to be released in decades. Eig uses the recently declassified FBI files for this look … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 5/16/23
Happy New Release Tuesday!! There are some great new reads hitting shelves today - too many to list! I've included just a handful of our favorites below! Wild Dances by William Lee Adams - this is one of our highly anticipated releases for 2023! Written by Eurovision exepert and journalist William Adams, this story recounts … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 5/9/23
It's New Release Tuesday! Being the first of the month, there's quite a few on the list today - some great kids' books, a few great biographies and memoirs, and some interesting fiction releases. What are you adding to your bookshelf today? Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin - this remarkable new book follows the legacy of … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 5/2/23
Happy book launch day for these great reads! There are great new memoirs from movie and TV stars, new releases in beloved series, and some great historical fiction! What are you picking up today? An American Beauty by Shana Abe - As soon as I saw the cover for this one, it was in my … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 4/25/23
As a banking leader in America, John Pierpont Morgan exuded much control over the economy and the way business was handled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He began as the son of a financier and expected his son to carry on after him. But his legacy is so much more than his … Continue reading The Personal Librarian
This weekend, I was honored to attend the Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum. The speaker was author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who discussed her book Independence, along with her other works such as Mistress of Spices and One Amazing Thing. I chose to attend this lecture because I reviewed … Continue reading Book Signing: Independence
It's Tuesday!! Time for new books! The new release list today has some great options...what's new on your shelves today? Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler - This book was the talk of my book groups this week and was a #1 choice on The Book of the Month Club website for April! A love story between … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 4/18/23
Here we are at New Release Tuesday again! Today's list includes some great kids books, some great novels, and one of the books off our most anticipated new releases list on our Bookshop.org storefront! I hope you enjoy these as much as me! A Madman's Will by Gregory May - years before Abraham Lincoln signed … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 4/11/23
It’s not often that I read a book after seeing the movie. Usually, they are so very different that it hurts my head to make sense of what I’m reading! But I was pleasantly surprised with Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. The well known movie staring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain has … Continue reading The Help
