Jefferson-Madison Regional Library branches are presenting the following events this week:
“Before She Disappeared,” by Lisa Gardner (Dutton)
LONDON (AP) — It’s still not time for “No Time to Die.”
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers…
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library has launched its new Dial-a-Story service at (434) 443-2300.
"Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me" by Ace Atkins; G.P. Putnam’s Sons (306 pages, $27) ——— Bad people with lots of money use it to i…
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When her book "The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World" came out in April 2019, Melinda Gates could not have imagined how i…
"A Crooked Tree" by Una Mannion; Harper (320 pages, $27.99) ——— Una Mannion’s perceptive debut “A Crooked Tree” pinpoints the exact moment whe…
The days are getting longer, right? That means more time for reading, at least by my definition. Here are a half-dozen recommended paperback, …
“Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell us About our History and Ourselves” by Keith Lowe; William Collins (302 pages, $29.99) …
Someone must leap into the abyss. And that someone is Charles Soule, son of Milwaukee and Grand Rapids, now keeper of the Jedi. Picture a job …
For a whole lot of reasons, it might feel right this month to focus on books that take us somewhere else — to another time and place far from …
More than 250 authors, editors, agents, professors and others in the American literary community signed an open letter last week opposing any …
In the midst of a real-life blizzard, it can be wonderful meta-reading when it’s snowing inside your book as well. Chill out with one of these novels.
“The Prophets,” by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Readers can nominate books for the 2021 Library of Virginia Literary Awards until the Feb. 10 deadline.
C.S. Lewis wrote “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give…
“A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” by George Saunders (Random House)
“The poem isn't blind,” she said. "It isn't turning your back to the evidence of discord and division."
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers …
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers …
The volunteers will transcribe the handwriting of the anonymous crewman or crewmen who chronicled voyages of the Merrimac, which sailed from N…
Following the Christmas Day release of "Bridgerton" on Netflix, demand for the books behind the series has skyrocketed — and so has their cost…
In the 1978 novel "The Turner Diaries," an underground revolutionary group of self-proclaimed patriots known as "the Organization" attacks the…
"A Stranger at the Door" by Jason Pinter; Thomas & Mercer (392 pages, $15.95) ——— Jason Pinter confidently delivers a solid police procedu…
It's a new year, and time for hope and self-examination and ... maybe some new books? Visit your local bookstore and wish them well for 2021 —…