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Mother, Father, Teacher, God

In Mrs. Ravenbach’s Way by William M. Akers, an epic and hilarious battle of wills ensues between a child and his domineering teacher

In Mrs. Ravenbach’s Way, William M. Akers’s wickedly sly and snarky novel for middle-grade readers, we meet Toby Wilcox, a typical baseball-, submarine-, and fries-loving fourth-grader. He has likes and…

Going Gonzo

Tim Dorsey takes wacky crime on the road in Coconut Cowboy, his latest Serge A. Storms novel

Tim Dorsey’s Coconut Cowboy is the nineteenth installment in a gonzo series that seems as indestructible as its history-loving and occasionally psychotic protagonist, Serge A. Storms. Hitting the road and…

It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

In Mark Greaney’s fifth Court Gentry novel, Back Blast, the Gray Man is back in the USA to get answers

…his physical appearance. In the fifth installment of the Gray Man series, Back Blast, Gentry uses this natural camouflage to his advantage when he goes to Washington, D.C., to find…

Undersea, Undercover, Under Attack

In Mark Greaney’s new Tom Clancy novel, a Putinesque strong man aims to capture former Soviet lands

…signing the latest installment, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, Greaney sat for a studio interview in Memphis with Chapter 16. An excerpt of the interview, along with the full video,…

Back to the Sea

…signing the latest installment, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, Greaney sat for a studio interview in Memphis with Chapter 16. To download the podcast, click here. To read an excerpt…

In The Wake of History

In Golden Age, the culmination of Jane Smiley’s Last Hundred Years Trilogy, America’s past catches up to the present

In the final installment of her Last One Hundred Years trilogy, Jane Smiley advances the story of the Langdon family to the present day and beyond. The previous two volumes…

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