Peter Fritz's previous incarnations in life have included everything from corporate bond broker to lead singer. Currently, he resides in the ever-beautiful and ever-growing Portland, Oregon, where he spends his time contemplating politics and literature and defending salmon (when he's not eating it).
Good friends are at the heart of the marvelous new novel, The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore, an outrageously funny yet equally tender tale.
Like most readers who love a good murder mystery, I most often read books by American authors: Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, Patricia Cornwell, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly – the usual suspects. Occasionally, though, a book from a foreign author washes up on our shore like a message in a bottle.
Fans of Gone Girl will want to read one of Gillian Flynn's earlier eBooks, Dark Places, in which a maladjusted young woman revisits and questions her mother and sisters' murders and her brother's imprisonment for the crime.
Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford's sparse, heartbreaking tale tells of twins whose paths diverge after their parents plan a bank robbery that goes wrong.
At a time when aging rock stars continue to record and perform well past their best-by dates, who would have thought a somewhat cantankerous old hippie like Neil Young would be the one to produce a refreshingly genuine and candid memoir?
In Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, we come to understand the magical aura of the Kennedy years’ affinity with Camelot, through the authors’ superb accounting, explanation, and meaning of this national tragedy.
Harry Hole returns in Jo Nesbo's latest thriller, Phantom, this time chasing a dangerous mastermind who has brought a highly addictive new drug to the streets of Oslo.
Sheila Bair, the former head of the FDIC, gives a comprehensive and accessible breakdown of the 2008 financial crisis. Details of behind-the-scenes negotiations and revelations about the power players offer a better sense of the bigger economic picture we face.
Choices come in many forms, from large to small, mundane back up to magnanimous. In McEwan’s latest, one young woman’s choice takes her down an unimaginable path.
The heart of the neighborhood in Chabon's latest excellent novel is an old record shop, until the building of a new mall on Telegraph Avenue threatens the store and the roots of many friends.
Detective Harry Hole has been solving crime and landing in hot water -- not always in that order -- for years. Here, a look at one of his earlier escapades involving a series of deadly bank robberies, a dangerous trip to Brazil, and Harry's sometimes-biggest enemy: himself.
Hitchhiking is risky, even for Jack Reacher who is off on another electrifying adventure in Lee Child's, A Wanted Man, the sequel to Worth Dying For. Buckle up, because when Reacher unknowingly enters a car full of murderer suspects, the twists and turns come fast and furious.
In a seaside village on the Italian coastline, a man begins to dream a dream that brings him from the Italian coast to around the globe -- with twists that, under a less talented author's pen, might not bear the weight of their own creativity.
The 2010 winner of 'Top Chef Masters' shares the story of his life -- from Ethiopia, to Sweden, and beyond -- to his current life in Harlem.
David Baldacci escapes the pitfalls that many authors of his genre tend to fall into -- and comes out on the other side with riveting, thrilling fiction.
You Should Definitely, Absolutely Read Decisive by Dan and Chip Heath
On Relics and Love: A Q&A With Natalie Brown, Author of The Lovebird
Broken Family, Missing Boy: Is This Tomorrow? by Caroline Leavitt
Teen Angst Squared: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Her Best Yet: Ruthie Knox’s Flirting with Disaster
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Haruki Murakami
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Jen Marshall
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