The “Pope of Trash” talks about hitting the road and discovering America in his hitchhiking adventure Carsick.
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins a book about one of the most unhappy marriages in all of literature. The classics are rife with unions so disturbed and disturbing that it’s a wonder any student who makes it through high school English ever gets hitched. […]
Ask any of our booksellers what they love most about their jobs, and you’ll hear a chorus of voices say, “Recommending books we love to other readers.” Our booksellers read deep into specific categories or widely across genres; they never stop talking about the books that broke their minds wide open, the stories they can’t […]
In Ruth Ware’s twisty thriller In a Dark, Dark Wood, homebody mystery novelist Nora Shaw receives a fateful invitation: Clare, a high school friend she hasn’t seen in a decade, is having a bachelorette weekend at an isolated cabin in the woods. Two days after she arrives at the cabin, Nora awakens in a hospital room, with a policeman […]