Reviews

A rape has been committed.  But in this 2012 National Book Award winner, The Round House, author Louise Erdrich does not focus on the rapist, but on the victim, her family and on the narrator, her 13 year-old son Joe.

While West Baden and French Lick, Indiana are best known for their famous 3-point shooting hick, they are also the home of two magnificent hotels which date back to the turn of the century. Originally constructed in 1902, the West Baden Springs Hotel with its one-of-a-kind domed atrium has often been called the “eighth wonder of the world”.

Dellarobia wishes her life were even a fraction as interesting as her name.  Pregnant and married at 17, she lives with her husband in a home his parents built for them in the shadow of their own and under their thumbs.  One miscarriage and two children later Dellarobia is trying to escape her life in the only way she knows how – affairs with other men.

Who knew elegance required creativity?  Matthew May reveals that “simple” is not always synonymous with “easy,” but the outcome is worth it.  He shares a variety of truly elegant solutions found in nature, art, business, and more, each of which demonst

This hilarious Swiss Family Robinson meets Glass Castles memoir is not for the easily offended.  Jenny Lawson, plagued with anxiety and panic attacks finds solace in the online community she meets through her blog; The Bloggess, Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.   

While reading Wife 22 I engaged in simultaneous duty-shirking and exaggerated eye-rolling. I certainly had better things to do, yet I couldn’t put the silly thing down. The perfect formula for a rainy Saturday afternoon read, in my opinion.

The authors, all with extensive experience in working with individuals with ASD, interviewed over 100 couples in which one partner has ASD and the other is non-spectrum (NS) in an effort to provide insight and guidance to those NS partners in creating a successful relationship for both parties.  While most of the advice in

I’ll admit that after about 100 pages of Fifty Shades of Grey, I put it down and decided that adult romance was probably not for me.  Granted, it was my first foray into what my grandmother calls “spicy” fiction.

Francesco Marciuliano writes the comic strip Sally Forth and has carried his sense of humor over to I Could Pee on This. As the title states, this is a book of poetry written by cats.

Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is a determined, insatiably curious, sarcastic private investigator. Not yet 30, she's already a seasoned pro at detective work. She's also an emotionally closed-off woman with a checkered past who drinks too much and will break the law without a second thought if she thinks it will help her get the information she wants.