The Song of Achilles is a retelling of Homer’s Iliad with an emphasis on Achilles. Unlike the Brad Pitt movie Troy (with Achilles played by Pitt), The Song of Achilles stays much closer to the Iliad with its plethora of gods and goddesses, length of the war, and character placements. An issue long debated in the Iliad…
Dede Cummings and Alyssa Homes are local New England authors from Vermont. Healing Herbs: How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power Description Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years, people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating…
Sunsets of Tulum is a first book from travel writer Raymond Avery Bartlett and a romance novel to warm up those cold winter nights. This love story is about how we are changed by those who we love and those who love us. It speaks of love as the ultimate catalyst for personal growth. Barrel Fire Press…
Dr. Richard Burack is a local author and doctor from Jackson, NH. New Book Dramatizes 19th Century Belgian Murder Case Dr. Richard Burack authors historical fiction based on court transcripts Love, longing, class consciousness, insanity, and death by nicotine poisoning are focal points in Dr. Richard Burack’s debut novel “Lydie of Peruwelz.” Lydie Fougnies is…
Andrew Szava-Kovats is a local author from Lowell, MA. Following his debut novel “Death of an Apprentice,” Andrew Szava-Kovats presents a collection of various writings to portray a man lost in his memories. He has lost all sense of “present.” His reality is composed of memories of a past that may or may not be…
Although Sarah’s Key is over a decade old, it seems fairly new – as if I first heard about it the other day. It’s been on my to-read list for years but try as I might, I can’t possibly dent that continually growing pile without major life changes, a lottery win, a nanny, and limitless…
Lauren McLaughlin is a local MA author. Lauren McLaughlin | 9781616957315 | Hardcover | PUB DATE: 2/28/2017 | $18.99 | Soho Teen Description: A 21st century response to Walter Dean Myers’s classic Lockdown, The Free takes a look inside a “juvie” jail, where Isaac West is fighting for a second chance. In the beginning, Isaac…
Hag-Seed is the fourth book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series published by Hogarth Press in which popular authors pen their versions of selected Shakespearean plays. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson tackles The Winter’s Tale. In Shylock Is My Name, Howard Jacobson re-imagines The Merchant of Venice. Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Tyler takes on…
Nicholas Conley is a local Dover, NH author. From the author of the award-winning Pale Highway and the radio play Something in the Nothing comes a short fantasy of love, shyness, and the secrets of human communication. Katie Mirowitz is a small little girl with an even smaller little voice. She possesses a deep love…
Dr. Shiva is a local Cambridge, MA author and the INVENTOR of email. The Future of Email by V.A. Shiva, Ph.D. Email, the system I invented in 1978, while a 14-year-old boy, to enable collaboration and communication among office workers at a small medical college in Newark, NJ, has now become the center of many controversies….