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Jacqueline Jung

It’s been said that country songwriters are actually storytellers whose tales just happen to be short—around three minutes long. But what happens when these fine songwriters are allowed a little more time and a few more pages? The results materialize in A Guitar and a Pen: Stories by Country Music’s Greatest Songwriters.

In this collection, 25 songwriters relate stories—some fictitious, some humorous, some painfully real. Many [more...]

Kristin Dreyer Kramer

It’s not often that I find a novel that’s both gripping and thought-provoking—and it’s even less often that that novel comes from a first-time author. And that’s just a part of what makes Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 such a wonderful surprise.

This chilling novel takes place in the Soviet Union of the 1950s—a country that’s ruled by Stalin and closely watched by the State Security Force (also known as the MGB). Leo Demidov is a [more...]

At Home

• Welcome to Michael’s - Michael McCarty

• The Hippy Gourmet’s Quick and Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating - Bruce Brennan and James Ehrlich

Can't Miss Classics

• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

• The Pale Horseman - Bernarnd Cornwell

Chick Lit

• Danger’s Kiss - Sarah McKerrigan

• Hotter After Midnight - Cynthia Eden

Dreams and Nightmares

• The Host - Stephenie Meyer

• Savage Survival - Darrell Bain