“I’ve always been intrigued by the comforting nature of food,” says Sarah Addison Allen, the Asheville, N.C., author of the 2007 best-seller Garden Spells, her debut.
The Sugar Queen (Bantam, $22), her new novel, features various characters deeply involved in food rituals, none more so than Josey Cirrini, a lovelorn 27-year-old who fills her need with [...]
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Jun
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Mar
Good luck trying to classify Mary Doria Russell’s books, and if you can, please let your local bookseller know Free Novel.
Perhaps no current author has produced such a diverse body of work in such a short period of time. This distinction has led Russell to reflexively refer to herself as, ahem, a “literary genre slut.†[...]
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Jan
Editor’s Choice
Winter in Madrid, by C.J. Sansom, $25.95. The playing fields of Rookwood did little to prepare reluctant spy Harry Brett for the moral no man’s land of post-Civil War Spain that awaits him in this cinematic historical thriller from British author Sansom (”Sovereign”). Publishers Weekly
FICTION
The Age of Shiva, by [...]
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Dec
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. %26#8212; Zane never intended to surround herself in mystery and intrigue.
The author, whose steamy sex novels set among black professionals have propelled her onto The New York Times list of best sellers, says if she could do it over, she’d have chosen a less provocative pseudonym.
About a decade ago, she was in [...]
14
Dec
Richard Brodhead targeted Hershel Parker before Duke Lacrosse
Posted by admin Published in Novel Summary“Rushing to judgment is part of Brodhead’s character. The circumstances at Duke merely brought out what anyone who knew his history could have predicted: that he had led a sheltered existence that never had called forth a display of force derived from a personal history of striving and achieving and mastering difficult information and complex [...]
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Dec
The following is a lengthy essay by Father Donald J. Keefe, S.J., who worked for Cardinal (then Archbishop) James Stafford in the early 1990s.
THE EUCHARISTIC FOUNDATION OF SACERDOTAL CELIBACY*
By Donald J. Keefe, S.J.
I. Preliminary Clarifications and Distinctions
The Apostolic Exhortation, “Pastores Dabo Vobis,” reaffirmed the traditional foundation of priestly celibacy [1] in the nuptial union of [...]
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