Karen Dunlap

• Holiday shoppers can find plenty to please their favorite discerning readers Published 12/07/2008 at midnight

  Shopping for the book lovers in your life can be a daunting experience, but take along this cheat sheet of the latest and greatest titles to the bookstore. From romance to recipes, adventure to award winners, these 14 books are ...

• Paige Turner book review: The Likeness Published 09/14/2008 at midnight

  Irish novelist Tana French follows her outstanding debut novel "In The Woods" with the recent release The Likeness.

• Book recommendations: Harper Lee & others Published 09/30/2007 at midnight

  Harper Lee’s groundbreaking novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” has touched lives and created lifelong readers of many young children. If you loved “To Kill a Mockingbird” and want to read something similar in tone or theme, try out one of ...

• Paige Turner: What our staffers are reading this month Published 08/05/2007 at midnight

  “The Penny” is about a girl named Jenny who grows up in a poor St. Louis neighborhood. Jenny and her sister Jean are physically and mentally abused by their father, while their mother turns a blind eye toward the behavior. ...

• The Book Bandit: July Published 07/08/2007 at midnight

  Looking back on her 1948 arrival in Le Havre, France, Julia Child describes herself as a “rather loud and unserious Californian” who had never seen a shallot. But by the time she left her French home in 1992, she had ...

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