Category Archives: Popular Reading Collection

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers … Continue reading →

What could have easily been a murder mystery, focused on the newly discovered remains of a long-missing teenager, instead flourishes into a novel about new beginnings, sad endings, and what it means to be a community, a family and, most … Continue reading →

Atwood’s tales live up to her reputation: nine frothy, witty, macabre stories, the first trio of which are carefully and tangentially intertwined, all of which are enough to draw out a snicker and to stand your hair on end. Atwood … Continue reading →

Subjects ranging from travel and art to cats and dogs to beauty and death; tones range from the imaginative—“the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they’re in Minneapolis”—to the nostalgia in a reaction to the death … Continue reading →

When the body count rises to two, one of which was employing you, where would you turn? Detroit entrepreneur Carl Fannon hires Walker to trace Emil Haas, his partner, who has suddenly disappeared. Almost immediately, the missing man shows up … Continue reading →

When single mom Skye Mitchell sinks to her last dime in purchasing her dream hotel, her daughter Cody falls in with the wrong crowd and becomes completely withdrawn. Adam March checks into run-down LakeView Hotel with his dog Chance, and … Continue reading →

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. Hayes proposes a fractured country: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we appreciate the … Continue reading →

A shocking confession, fear of the unseen, and a classic twist lands three parents in a whirlwind of emotions that will impact each of their lives forever. Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when her husband of fifteen years … Continue reading →

Brought together by tragedy, two young boys grow together and learn the bounds of pain, joy, and glories of young friendship. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day … Continue reading →

What Came Before the Big Bang? Where Did Time Come From? Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore these questions and others like them about our place in the world, universe, and cosmos. You Are the … Continue reading →