And Only to Deceive a novel of suspense by Tasha Alexander.

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      And Only to Deceive introduces us to Emily, Lady Ashton a very
young, newly widowed resident of London in 1890.  Given the usual
education suitable for future society matrons, Emily married a man she
barely knew to escape her overbearing mother.  Six months after the
wedding, Lord Ashton dies in Africa on safari leaving Emily to [...]

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Sopas por Patricia Quintana.

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En las sopas se une el sabor profundo de las especias con la esencia de las hierbas de olor y las verduras tiernas. Al calor de la lumbre se combinan los tonos verdes, rojos, amarillos de chiles, chayotes, jitomates, zanahorias y papas. Todo se fusiona en calido encuentro que adquiere formas ligeras o [...]

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Buenos niños, malas costumbres por Jennifer Trachtenberg

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Buenos niños, malas costumbres : la guía RealAge para criar niños saludables por Jennifer Trachtenberg ; traducido del inglés por Rosana Elizalde.
Cuando los chicos empiezan a volverse adictos a la televisión o a devorar puñados de galletitas, es fácil decir “ya se les va a pasar cuando crezcan.” Lo más probable es que [...]

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Don’t miss these great new picture books in the children’s room!

The Jellybeans and the Big Dance
by Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans; Laura Numeroff, illustrator.
Starting on the cover with the adorable little creatures in their sparkly costumes then following their adventures and misadventures in dance school, readers will fall in love with Emily and her dance partners as they prepare to perform “Oh Little Bug.” Illustrations [...]

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The Rake by William F. Buckley.

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The Rake is William F. Buckley’s last novel, and the tale of a charming rogue who goes from calculating undergraduate to all-but-announced candidate for President of the United States. Set from the 1960s through 1991, the story of the charismatic but unscrupulous Ruben Castle is a political cautionary tale of what happens [...]

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Americans’ Favorite Poems: the Favorite Poem Project Anthology edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.

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A great choice for National Poetry Month. ”Poet laureate Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project was a stroke of genius. Americans were invited to share by letter a poem they treasured; then many were recorded reading their chosen poems for inclusion in a national video and audio archive. The response was tremendous, and as Pinsky notes, [...]

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winnifred Watson.

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Originally published in 1938, Miss Pettigrew has been rediscovered and reprinted in a beautiful paperback edition by Persephone, including gorgeous line drawings.  A fantasy screwball comedy a little like a Thin Man movie crossed with with an episode of Upstairs Downstairs gone mad, Miss Pettigrew has now been adapted as a major motion picture [...]

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Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.

The New York Times has published its annual Ten Best Books of the year.
On the top of my “to read” list is TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson. “The author of “Jesus’’ Son” offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.”
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The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa.

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“Once upon a time, in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, there was a good boy who fell in love with a bad girl. He treated her with tenderness; she repaid him with cruelty. The bad girl mocked the good boy’s devotion, criticized his lack of ambition, exploited his generosity when it was [...]

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The Last Playboy

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This is a biography of Porfirio Rubirosa the iconic Latin Lover, gigolo, playboy of the 1940s , 50s and 60s. “Rubi” as he was known to international and cafe society and the sensational press of the time was the husband of Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke and the [...]

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