If you dread the end of daylight saving time or the drop in temperatures, set your worries aside and step into a far-off fantasy world or an engrossing memoir.
- Erik Pedersen The Orange County Register
Here are 22 new novels and nonfiction picks for readers to check out this month.
- Palak Jayswal for The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune reports Eli McCann's debut novel "Stitched" defied industry doubts and gained Hollywood interest, celebrating older women in Utah's quilting community.
- Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — One evening a month, roughly a dozen men and women convene at the Panera Bread in Campbell, filling the dining room’s largest table and spilling into nearby booths. They’re there for Silent Book Club, where their mission for the session is to read in silence, surrounded by…
- BrieAnna J. Frank USA Today
Among the banned titles that entered the index for the first time were "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte and "Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable Path Adventure" by Ryan North.
- Erik Pedersen, The Orange County Register
Robyn Gigl, author of books that include “Survivor’s Guilt” and “Nothing but the Truth,” returns with a new crime novel, “All We Hide.” Gigl, an attorney as well as a writer, takes the Q&A to discuss the book and writing about trans life. Q. Please tell readers about your new novel, “All…
- Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel
A new book by a veteran attraction creator offers advice regarding creative processes, goals, structure, brain-storming and transformation storytelling. Bob Rogers’ “Deep Story: Complete Guide for Creating Transformational Visitor Attractions” is now available. He founded BRC Imagination Art…
A new book by a veteran attraction creator offers advice regarding creative processes, goals, structure, brain-storming and transformation storytelling. Bob Rogers’ “Deep Story: Complete Guide for Creating Transformational Visitor Attractions” is now available. He founded BRC Imagination Arts in 1981, and its projects and clients since then have included Walt Disney Co., NASA, Coca-Cola, ...
This story really begins with butter chicken at a truck stop. Because my husband’s family lives in Northern California, for the past 20 years, to make it to family gatherings, we have regularly traveled up and down the 5, the 99, the 101 — all the arteries running through California’s Central Valley and beyond. If you know these routes, you know that if you look beyond the usual fast-food pit ...
MINNESOTA — James Hong isn’t ready to retire. The 97-year-old Minnesota native may not look as spry as he did in memorable moments from “Chinatown” and “Blade Runner,” but he still has the spirit of actors half his age. During a Zoom interview with the legend last month, Hong broke out his impersonations of James Cagney and Jimmy Stewart with all the gusto and accuracy of a Las Vegas lounge ...
In some long-ago October, I can vaguely recall a house that gave out books for Halloween one year instead of candy, a substitution only slightly better received than, say, a toothbrush or a single Brussels sprout. However, for me, I would have happily traded a few sleeves of Smarties or a stale Charleston Chew for the chance to stuff a good book into my pillowcase. “Just take one,” I imagine ...
There’s a new monster hunter prowling the shelves. “I like tackling standard horror tropes and flipping them on their heads and seeing what I can do with them,” said Keith Rosson during a recent email interview. And flip them on their heads he does. You won’t find any sexy monsters or happy endings in a Rosson novel. What you will find are stories about the human spirit told through a gritty ...
It’s finally spooky season! Or close enough. Which means we can start screaming about the plethora of horror novels coming out this October. You’ve heard of an advent calendar — well, this is a demented calendar. A book a day keeps the ghosts away! But only for October. You’re on your own for Christmas. There may not be a chill in the air just yet here in Southern California, but that doesn’t ...
Although the details of Princess Diana's life have been scrutinized for decades, it's been nearly 30 years since her untimely death, and her younger brother, journalist and author Charles Spencer, is telling his side of the story in "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister." The explosive and heart-wrenching tell-all, released this week, has reportedly ruffled feathers inside Buckingham Palace, and its ...
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