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Doña Isidora

Doña Isidora

Ishi, a young girl who lives in a small village in Peru, grows up wanting for nothing. Her life takes a turn for the worse when she falls in love with Don Amador, a notorious philanderer.

An Adventurous Spirit

An Adventurous Spirit

I know every serious reader is awash with excitement when they accidentally discover a treasure trove of excellent writing. Travel writing is a broad category and this collection makes the most of it with short stories, satire, poetry, and author interviews. I find...

My Year of Casual Acquaintances (The South Bay)

My Year of Casual Acquaintances (The South Bay)

My Year of Casual Acquaintances offers contemporary romance lovers a fresh take on the fresh start trope, and delivers a thoroughly entertaining, highly re-readable novel. Middle-aged editor Mar Meyers has left it all behind; her unfaithful spouse, her big home in the...

Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets)

Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets)

This slim volume is most definitely an epic. Ambitious in scale and profound in depth, Schiff guides the reader on a dream-like tour through both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the hidden enclaves of her subconscious. Told in what almost comes across as a long...

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

Aimee Nezhukumatathil's latest book Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees is a personal and poetic exploration of food and joy and the intersections we all have with our own history and the meals we've shared. For fans of the writer's poetry, this is a lovely...

How America Works… and Why it Doesn’t by William Cooper

How America Works… and Why it Doesn’t by William Cooper

Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s historic success. A big part of why America isn’t working is because far too many...