Books High and Low

  I really loved this novel by James McBride about a diverse collection of people living in Pottstown, Pennsylvania during the 1930s and 197...

  I have mixed feelings about this 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a nerdy second-generation Dominican American man who is highly in...

  Moran’s (history and women’s studies, The Pennsylvania State University; Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Mode...

I really enjoyed this small collection of 16 poems by twelve authors. Many of them were familiar from my school days (Henry Wadsworth Longfe...

I loved this novel by Ruth Rendell. It's the story of 16 years old Liza, who has been kept isolated on the estate where her mother works...

This is a fast-paced thriller that follows an armored-car heist, the FBI lead on the case, a seasoned reporter, and a key eye witness to the...

  This was an enjoyable and intriguing novel about a woman whose semi-estranged brother drags her into an investigation into their father...

  I read this book decades ago and I was surprised by how much of it I had forgotten. I read it this summer for my September local book club...

  In 1918, white South Africans began to raise concerns about what they perceived as the increasing aridity of the land. These ideas were ...

  I enjoyed these poems by former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. Her poems ruminate on topics such as Civil War-era Black soldiers and n...

  I enjoyed this novel that alternated between 1940s Paris and 1980s Montana. Odile is a new librarian at the American Library in Paris. She...

  After Leah's writer husband, Robert, disappears, she follows clues that take her to Paris with her two teenage daughters. Once there, ...

I was a little disappointed in this book and feel like the title was misleading. The author spent so much time on the end of the classical p...

The Cartographers presents an intriguing concept about the purpose of maps and how they work. Nell is a cartographer working in a map shop ...

  Before a recent vacation to Scotland, which started and ended in Edinburgh, I wanted to read a novel by Ian Rankin who has been recommende...

  Band director Mike Leckrone shares highlights of his 50-year career in this joyous memoir. Leckrone grew up in a musical family and his ...