This unabridged reading of the author’s first Martha’s Vineyard mystery (originally published in 2001) introduces that most endearing and unlikely of sleuths, ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull. She’s a well-regarded poet who... Read More

Treasure Quest. Hidden tombs and tunnels. An illicit love affair. Historical France. This audiobook offers an eclectic combination of suspense, romance, and history. In the late nineteenth century, a French priest begins living like... Read More

When a biographer (or, in this case, biographers) undertakes to write the life of a person who is already the subject of previous works, it is usually either the result of a discovery of a new cache of documents, or because the... Read More

Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Bernstein is confused. Everyone is saying that her favorite uncle, Bradford, died of a “heart attack brought on by his pneumonia-weakened lungs.” But that doesn’t make sense to Phoebe. Bradford “was strong... Read More

Rubber snakes, toy mice, chocolate-covered worms—the trappings of a successful practical joke, right? Wrong! Third-grader Robert Dorfman’s teacher, Mrs. Bernthal, has had enough. The rubber-snake prank earns the class an extra... Read More

In shades of midnight blue and golden light, the children in this book whirl, swirl, spin, swim, and dive as they wend their way across the night sky on an imaginary tour of the universe. In an amalgamation of mythology, science, and... Read More

The author was twenty-one years old when she set out to see the world. After a spur-of-the-moment wedding at a Berkeley tea shop in 1971, Schur and her new husband embarked on an eighteen-month-long honeymoon through five continents and... Read More

“Your body image is the way you think about your own body and how accurately you see your body for what it really looks like,” explains the author in her new book. Bartell, a psychologist, has more than fifteen years’ experience... Read More