B&N Readouts

When Skip left for college, he never even came around to say good-bye. I heard about it from Amber, who heard Donny talking about it on the bus. He wrote me once during his whole first year at school. The…Read more

Mysteries & Thrillers

SELECTION FROM

The Gray Ghost (Fargo Adventure Series #10)

Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell

A salt-tinged breeze swept in from the water, rippling the white canvas tents where spectators stood, drinking champagne. Beyond the tents, sunlight glinted off the hoods of the classic cars parked on the newly mowed emerald green grass. Two young…Read more

SF & Fantasy

SELECTION FROM

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

Theodora Goss

First they crowded into Mary’s and Diana’s cabin. It was arranged for daytime, with the seat facing forward, toward the engine. Justine dropped the bag with Diana’s new clothes in it on the seat. “Where are we supposed to sleep?”…Read more

Food & Cooking

10 PLACES TO TRY RED VELVET CAKE

Taste of the South
November-December 2018

THE HOLIDAYS ARE A MAGICAL TIME OF YEAR. Red and green decorations emerge as family and friends travel far and wide to be together. Memories are recounted and new ones are made, hand-picked gifts are given and received, and traditions…Read Article

Teen & YA

SELECTION FROM

The Summoner’s Handbook

Taran Matharu

The ability to summon is passed down through the blood. The firstborn child always inherits the gift, while their younger siblings have a much smaller chance. Every summoner must at first be gifted a demon through the reading aloud of…Read more

Books & Ideas

SELECTION FROM

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

Pamela Newkirk

Given the various conflicting accounts offered by Verner as to how he acquired Benga, the true story will probably never be known. However, all his versions underscore how the Belgian king Leopold II’s conquest of the Congo had rendered Benga…Read more

Science & Tech

SELECTION FROM

Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for…

Jim Baggott

When Einstein developed his theories of relativity and challenged Bohr over the interpretation of quantum theory in the 1920s, it was believed that there were just two forces of nature — electromagnetism and gravity. Early attempts to construct a unified…Read more

Business & Innovation

SELECTION FROM

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles…

The world is experiencing a tectonic shift—the global business environment is being “reset.” We now live in a world in which radical change can happen seemingly overnight, and in which many former “givens” will be in flux for a long…Read more

Fiction

SELECTION FROM

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

In mid-September we arrived at our respective schools. Having been day students so far, we were unaccustomed to boardingschool life, whereas everyone there already knew they had been essentially abandoned. We could not stand it and within a day of…Read more