Hardcover Fiction Sentry, Robert Crais Clara and Mr Tiffany, Susan Vreeland While Mortals Sleep, Kurt Vonnegut Swamplandia, Karen Russell Border Lords, T. Jefferson Parker Sherlockian, Graham Moore Object of Beauty, Steve Martin Fatal Error, J A Jance Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender The Help, Kathryn Stockett Hardcover Non-Fiction How I Killed Pluto and [...]
Hardcover Fiction Sentry, Robert Crais Clara and Mr Tiffany, Susan Vreeland Border Lords, Jefferson T Parker Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Distant Hours, Kate Morton Help, Kathryn Stockett Object of Beauty, Steve Martin Judas Gate, Jack Higgins Left Neglected, Lisa Genova Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, Stieg Larsson Hardcover Non-Fiction Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, [...]
Pasadena’s selection for the upcoming One City One Story program is Mudbound. This debut novel by Hillary Jordan is set in the Mississippi Delta just after World War II, as two families play out the South’s eternal conflicts over race, land and class. Six main characters alternate in telling the story, which begins with a burial [...]
Hardcover Non-Fiction Blessing of a B Minus, Wendy Mogel American Veda, Philip Goldberg Zooborns, Andrew Bleiman Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron Cooking with Trader Joe’s Dinners, Deana Gunn Great Unrecorded History, Wendy Moffat Wait for Me Duchess of Devonshire, Deborah Mitford Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand Paperback Fiction [...]
Hardcover Fiction Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Dead Or Alive, Tom Clancy Confession, John Grisham Our Kind of Traitor, John Le Carre Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, Stieg Larsson Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, David Mitchell Object of Beauty, Steve Martin Outlaws, W E B Griffin Madonnas of Echo Park, Brando Skyhorse Port Mortuary, Patricia [...]
Hardcover Fiction Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris Object of Beauty, Steve Martin Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Our Kind of Traitor, John Le Carre Confession, John Grisham Help, Kathryn Stockett Dead Or Alive, Tom Clancy Reversal, Michael Connelly Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Hardcover Non-Fiction Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain [...]
The first time I heard of Frank Lloyd Wright, I was standing in the living room of the Hollyhock House, transfixed by my Occidental College professor Bob Winter. He was re-enacting the suicide of Mrs. Barnsdall’s goldfish. The tyrannical genius architect Wright (I believe the epithet Winter used was “Napoleonic”) had designed an indoor fishpond [...]
Hardcover Fiction Of Love and Evil, Anne Rice Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris Object of Beauty, Steve Martin Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Dead or Alive, Tom Clancy Hollywood Hills, Joseph Wambaugh Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon Fall of Giants, Ken Follett Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson Confession, John Grisham Hardcover Non-Fiction Autobiography of [...]
Hardcover Fiction Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris Of Love and Evil, Anne Rice Our Kind of Traitor, John Le Carre Object of Beauty, Steve Martin Distant Hours, Kate Morton Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, Steig Lrsson Confession, John Grisham Dead Or Alive, Tom Clancy Cross Fire, James Patterson Freedom, Jonathan Franzen Hardcover Non-Fiction Autobiography [...]
For the price of a good bottle of wine, you can gift your holiday hosts and hostesses with a book they won’t be able to put down. But careful, because Bill Bryson is probably a more charming party guest than you can ever hope to be. I will read anything Bill Bryson has written. I [...]
