Sally D. Ketchum

“. . . hard to put down . . .”

The astonishing success of Phillip Margulies’ first novel is not accidental.

Kate Christensen’s autobiography Blue Plate Special is remarkable for three reasons. First: The appetites mentioned in the subtitle are yearnings for good food and fulfilling sex.

“Readers will find accompanying Ms. Altman on her journey from childhood to a life of love and a life filled with love makes for a lively trip.”

“A Dog Named Boo is a truly perfect book.”

A Dog Named Boo by Lisa J. Edwards will please dog lovers, but it is much more than a good dog tale.

“What’s a poor reader to do but laugh?”

“Charlie Newton’s second thriller is as brilliant as his much awarded Calumet City.

“Ms.

“One Writer’s Garden is a handsome, durable book. If a reader has interest in gardens and also American literature, it will prove nearly irresistible.

“Joni Cole’s voice may be brutal, but readers, drawn to turn to the next page, will be rewarded: She is funny—and so is her gutsy book.”

“Only seven of her nearly 1,800 poems were published while she was alive, but most of Dickinson’s verses were published by [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson after her death.

“Like many authors who prefer imagination to reality, Ms. Davies blends folklore, fairy tales, fantasy, and even oral tradition—and does so brilliantly . . .”

A headless corpse appears on Lacey’s lawn. And that is how what author Lisa Lutz calls her first “proper crime novel” begins.

Successfully mixing two genres—comedy and crime—is a daunting task, but talented writers, like Tim Dorsey, manage to accomplish what readers seek in the mixture of the two.

The structure of Born Under a Lucky Moon is determined by Jeannie Thompson, the heroine, who goes back and forth relating the events of her life during two years, 1986 and 2006, and gives