Monthly Archives: February 2018

    Michael Korda (“Alone”) has written a life of Robert E, lee, “Clouds of Glory” which is equally as “approachable and captivating”.  Lee’s image, based on audacity in battle and honor in defeat, has been suffered of late. Korda threads a … Continue reading →

“Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk” by Michael Korda offers readers the history behind the popular film “Dunkirk”.  British troops , cut off by the Nazi invasion of France  retreated toward the coast, then were evacuated, famously, by a flotilla … Continue reading →

Just in:  new stories by popular authors.  “The Great Alone” is Kristen Hannah’s first story since the bestselling “The Nightingale”.   In 1974, a Vietnam vet inherits a homestead from a fallen comrade and moves his family to Alaska.  Unfortunately, the stark … Continue reading →

“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee, a finalist for the National Book Award, is an “absorbing saga of 20th-century Korean experience.”  Sujna, the only surviving child of a poor family, works dutifully in her mother’s boarding house until she becomes pregnant … Continue reading →

In “Sing, Unburied, Sing”, Jesmyn Ward evokes “the terrible beauty of life along the nation’s lower margins” in a “sharp-eyed novel” (Kirkus Reviews) that won the National Book Award for fiction.  Jojo and his little sister, Kayla, live with their … Continue reading →