young adult – Book Club Babble

Do you have a book lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are a few recommendations from our very talented literary critics that are sure to please even the most discerning reader. Tabitha Lord ... Read More...

Dessert First – An Interview with Dean Gloster

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

Dean Gloster's young adult novel Dessert First is a beautifully written, compassionate story of a young girl dealing with the painful realities of her brother's fight with cancer, while at the same time navigat... Read More...

Beneath Wandering Stars, An Interview with YA Author Ashlee Cowles

Amy M. Hawes

Interviews

Emotional truth infuses Beneath Wandering Stars, the young adult debut novel by Ashlee Cowles. Gabriella Santiago, who is from a military family, faces the typical challenges of being a teenager girl–clashing w... Read More...

Making Her Mark: An Interview with Aurora Whittet

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

I am a huge fan of fantasy. A good fantasy novel describes stunning worlds and paints a vivid picture in my imagination. It creates memorable characters and launches them on epic adventures. I lose myself i... Read More...

An Interview with Randy Ribay – In This Universe!

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes is a little gem of a contemporary young adult novel by high school teacher, coach, and self-proclaimed nerd, Randy Ribay. It is a modern coming of age story told from th... Read More...

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Not That I Could Tell- An Interview With Jessica Strawser

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

The Flicker of Old Dreams – An Interview with Susan Henderson

Is Love in the Stars? Find out in Darcy Woods’ Debut YA, Summer of Supernovas

The Author’s Cut, Live with Jennifer Kitses

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

All the Ever Afters: A Powerful Rendition of the Stepmother’s Side of the Cinderella Story

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

How to Create a Successful Culture

The Big Sheep: A delightfully humorous dystopian novel

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Book-to-Film: Room

Up for a Russia Spy Thriller Not on the Nightly News? Try Red Sparrow

Does the movie version of The Glass Castle hold up?

Is Everything, Everything Worth Watching?

Looking for an Adult Adventure Movie? Try The Lost City of Z

Lauren Oliver’s YA hit, Before I Fall, Hits the Silver Screen. Is it Worth Watching?

Fences: From Playwright to Screenplay

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

Best Books of 2017

Books We Love: Our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Dessert First – An Interview with Dean Gloster

Beneath Wandering Stars, An Interview with YA Author Ashlee Cowles

Making Her Mark: An Interview with Aurora Whittet

An Interview with Randy Ribay – In This Universe!

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Not That I Could Tell- An Interview With Jessica Strawser

All the Ever Afters: A Powerful Rendition of the Stepmother’s Side of the Cinderella Story

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Looking At What is to be Seen: A Review of Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others

Two Families, One Secret: An Interview With Lynda Cohen Loigman

Unearthing The Lion Trees’ Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Come Aboard the Starship Horizon: An Interview with Tabitha Lord

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