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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life by Rod Dreher

On April 30, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie’s death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher.

Fellow Mortals: A Novel of How Relationships Are Built and Burned by Dennis Mahoney

On April 7, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

An affecting story about how relationships are built—and burned—by desperate needs and obligations. With sparse and handsome prose reminiscent of Raymond Carver and early Stewart O’Nan, Mahoney’s probing first novel charts the fall of a man who has spent his life working to be decent and shows us a community trying desperately to hold itself together.

The Golden Egg, A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon

On April 6, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor’s future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply.

Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives by Becky Aikman

On March 30, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

n her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional ideas.

Life After Life: A Journey Through Time and Memory by Jill McCorkle

On March 27, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill  McCorkle’s constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. With Life After Life, she has conjured up an  entire community that reminds all of us that grace and magic can—and do—appear when we least expect it.

The Still Point of the Turning World, A Passionate Chronicle of the Last Months With Her Son by Emily Rapp

On March 16, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother’s journey through grief and beyond it. Rapp’s response to her son’s diagnosis was a belief that she needed to “make my world big”—to make sense of her family’s situation through art, literature, philosophy, theology and myth.

Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy by Susan Spencer-Wendel

On March 10, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Co-written with Bret Witter, Until I Say Good-Bye is Spencer-Wendel’s account of living a full life with humor, courage, and love, but also accepting death with grace and dignity. It’s a celebration of life, a look into the face of death, and the effort we must make to show the people that we love and care about how very much they mean to us.

The Blue Book: A New Novel by Scottish Writer A. L. Kennedy

On March 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling novelists — whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer” — comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner. The Blue Book is both a portrait of two methodical con artists and a meditation on “how love is a private language, a set of codes, to which the outside world ought not admit impediment”

After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Search for his Long-Lost, Deceased Father by Michael Hainey

On February 22, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son’s quest to understand the mystery of his father’s death—a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are.

Wave, A Devastating But Redemptive Memoir of a Survivor of the 2004 Sri Lanka Tsunami by Sonali Deraniyagala

On February 20, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, by Editor

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since.