Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once heartbreaking and inspiring, difficult to read but impossible to ignore. It depicts the war and power grabbing that have shaped Afghanistan's story for decades, told through the intimate...

What starts out as a light reading, clearly a "chick book" in the vein of Bridgette Jones Diary, ends up being a book with a serious message, couched in a simple question: What are your non-negotiables? Elle is a cute, fashion-co...

This book was a mixed bag. One the one hand, Follett has a great idea: Use the building of a cathedral as a way to explore a culture, a time period in history, and a political landscape. Cathedrals take a lifetime and a cast of thousands, s...

 

This is a book you need to own. Wonderful reference! But it's not a book you would necessarily read from cover to cover in a week. Full of history, daily living, religion, foods, culture, etc. of Amsterdammers from the time they were just a...

McCullough is such a master at writing history in a way that reads like a novel. I really thought I knew my American History, but I was surprised and a little embarrassed when I found myself repeatedly thinking, "Wow, I never knew that...

While it was clear from the first page that this story would not be a happy one, Charles Frazier had done his job as a writer in depicting the impact of war on ordinary lives. This Civil War tale unfolds like some kind of combination of Ody...

Fun YA read by the author of Tangerine. This time travel story depicts a teen named Martin who is transported through a mysterious radio to London in 1940. It was during the worst days of blitz, and Martin slowly learns through Jim...

Fun read. She's quite a character and the book provides insight both into her personality as well as her methodical approach to writing cookbooks. Quite interesting and worth the read, especially for "foodies."

Fascinating read. I would like to have lingered in some of the details a bit more, and I left the book with unanswered questions, but it is still an intriguing glimpse at a religious community that has managed to create and sustain a separa...