Category: Literature & Fiction

Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer is the 20th (!) volume in our popular sampler series. As always, Buzz Books presents passionate readers with an insider’s look at the buzziest books due out this season. Such major bestselling authors as Geraldine Brooks, Sloane Crosley, Chris Pavone, Emma Straub, and Adriana Trigiani are featured, along with literary greats Abdulrazak Gurnah (our first Nobel Prize in Literature winner), NoViolet Bulawayo, Mohsin Hamid, and Marianne Wiggins. ... [Read More...]

HAROLD KUSHNER and his roommate of thirty years, Murray Schwartz, are average senior citizens facing down their mortality in a trailer park in Land O’ Lakes, Florida. Two self-professed “best Jewish bowlers ever” wind up contestants in the first-ever Great Mongolian Bowling League Tournament in the U.S.A. The rivalry becomes a high stakes roll-off as Harold approaches “perfection” (defined in the bowling world as three 300- score games in a row) despite a fix set by the alley’s mobst... [Read More...]

As Peter’s research assistant, Tina tracks down not just the provenance of his photos, but also an unidentified child and Peter’s estranged daughter. But in trying to create happy endings for other people’s children, she must reexamine her relationship with her own father, and the quest for achievement that has brought her to this unsettled moment. ... [Read More...]

It’s easier to be brave with a good dog by your side. Leslie Durant, owner of Pretty Paws, doesn’t care that she’s always giving all of her time and attention to others: it’s worth the joy of helping abandoned animals find loving forever homes. But if she can’t find a way to bring more money into the struggling shelter, the sacrifices she’s made will all be for nothing. Then her brother leaves her with an inheritance, with two stipulations: she must work with... [Read More...]

For aspiring indie filmmaker Kevin Stacey, it’s another day on the set of his first film, but when his estranged father, a failed Hollywood actor, arrives unexpectedly with a bundle of cash, a gun, and a stolen capuchin monkey, he’s propelled toward the journey that will change his life. ... [Read More...]