Megan Miranda, author of “You Belong Here,” lives in Davidson, North Carolina. (Marysue Rucci Books via AP) Megan Miranda treads overly familiar territory in “You Belong Here,” the story of a woman forced to return […]
“The Tilting House” by Ivonne Lamazares follows the life of a 16-year-old orphan growing up in communist Cuba. (Counterpoint via AP) Yuri is a 16-year-old orphan who lives simply with her religious aunt in a […]
Wally Lamb, author of “The River is Waiting” speaks at Book Expo America in New York in 2013. (Mark Lennihan / AP Photo) Corby Ledbetter is in trouble. In Wally Lamb’s new novel, “The River […]
“The Listeners” was written by Maggie Stiefvater, a New York Times bestselling author of young adult novels. (Viking via AP) Maggie Stiefvater has brought her magical prose with her to her first adult novel. “The […]
This cover image shows “Life and Art” by Richard Russo. (Knopf via AP) Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, freely admits […]
This cover image shows “Mark Twain” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow. (Penguin Press via AP) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses […]
“The Rivals” is the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek. (Knopf via AP) Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark […]
Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang, a wildly gifted writer, to explore the upside […]
“Those Opulent Days” is Jacquie Pham’s first novel. (Atlantic Monthly Press via AP) It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina […]
RALEIGH — The controversial book “George” remains on the library shelves in two of Moore County’s public schools while a complaint filed over the book heads to the Moore County Public Schools board. The book, […]
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