Grove at Home: January 24-30

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10 Scandalous Facts About the 1958 Novel Candy

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Grove at Home: January 17-23

…together / Code the world with the fugitive light.” Happy weekend, friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXdwvDjxOkM   Thursday, January 21 There’s certainly something big in the air today. As we all stay glued…

Father’s Day Reads: The Technologist

…the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work—and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. How to Fix the Future / Andrew Keen Andrew Keen was among…

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Fourteen years in the writing, and 1664 pages in length, theMystery.doc is one of the most unusual novels ever published, combining photographs, pop-up ads, web chats, lines of code with…

Wish You Were Here

“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos, the children’s bedtime. . . ….

The Waters of Eternal Youth

In the twenty-fifth novel in Donna Leon’s celebrated and bestselling series, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a tragedy that befell a girl fifteen years earlier….

The Voices

“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and a reader with a good ear…

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Turn of Mind

“[Like] Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One—a dread-filled, unputdownable page-turner . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery with family drama, bringing new meaning…