Lost in the Stacks

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collage of the book covers of the National Book Awards Shortlist
  • Emily Anne Hamstra
The Nation Book Award Shortlist, announced today, recognizes the year's top 20 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult literature.
Cover of The Bells by Richard Harvell
  • Vicki J Kondelik
A beautifully-written historical novel, with some fantasy elements, about a young man, born in the bell tower of a Swiss mountain village in the eighteenth century, who grows up with a beautiful singing voice and an extraordinary sense of hearing. He falls in love with a young woman from a wealthy family, but he has a secret he keeps from the woman he loves.
Cover of The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
  • Vicki J Kondelik
In the first of a new mystery series set in ancient Rome, Flavia Albia, adopted daughter of author Lindsey Davis' popular series detective Marcus Didius Falco, investigates a series of random poisonings.
Cornish Trilogy Cover Image
  • Pam MacKintosh
The Cornish Trilogy by Canadian author Robertson Davies are three stories that cover Canadian academic life, World War II spy-craft, and the world of arts funding all beautifully woven together. The three separate books included in this trilogy are The Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in the Bone (1985), and The Lyre of Orpheus (1988).
Cover of The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas
  • Vicki J Kondelik
The Witch Hunter's Tale is the third in a mystery series featuring midwife Bridget Hodgson in York, England, during the English Civil War of the 1640s. A bitterly cold winter is blamed on witches. Will Bridget be able to stop the witch hunt before she, or someone close to her, is accused of witchcraft?
Cover of The Turner House: a novel by Angela Flournoy
  • Emily Anne Hamstra
The Turner House is a novel about 13 siblings growing up and growing older on Detroit’s East Side.
Cover of Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
  • Vicki J Kondelik
In Shroud for a Nightingale, by the late P.D. James, one of the greatest mystery authors of all time, detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murders of two student nurses.
Words Onscreen Cover
  • Pam MacKintosh
Naomi Baron, Professor of Linguistics and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching, Research & Learning at American University in Washington, DC., discusses reading and how it has changed in the age of digital content.
Cover of The Course of Honour by Lindsey Davis
  • Vicki J Kondelik
Author Lindsey Davis, best known for her Marcus Didius Falco mysteries, tells a compelling love story set in ancient Rome, from a slave's point of view.
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment
  • Noa Kim
The personal is political. Narratives from major Supreme Court decisions.