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Sep 28, 2024 | 
wibw.com | Christopher Denise |Sara Paretsky
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The 13th annual Kansas Book Festival brought many out to Washburn University’s campus on Saturday. This year’s event took place in a different spot on campus, allowing for more space and interaction. “People can come in and actually spend time at the tables and shop and talk with us,” said Meadowlark Press owner Tracy Million Simmons.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Sara Paretsky
FEATURE.
First published September 1, 2024 (Booklist).
Mammoths still roamed the tundra when Sumerian tax collectors and poets figured out how to make the spoken word visible. This visible word has enlightened and encouraged our spirits but also enflamed them ever since, leading to stonings, knifings, and immolations, both of the books and of their writers. Today in America, we’re experiencing a frightening wildfire of assaults on books, writers, and librarians.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
citylifestyle.com | Ann Patchett |Sara Paretsky |Marc Hamer |Justina Ireland
Want to start a publication? Learn More Featured ArticleBooks to Help You Escape from Where You AreArticle by Linda DitchPhotography by Linda Ditch Originally published in Lawrence City LifestyleBooks and summer make a perfect combo. The Raven Book Store co-owner Kelly Barth says, "There's this sweetness to summertime. Even if you don't have more time, you make more time because there's a memory of those long summer days when you had a break from school.
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May 31, 2024 | 
vancouverisawesome.com | Sara Paretsky
Celebrity Birthdays for June 8:Actress Millicent Martin is 90. Actor James Darren is 88. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 84. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 82. Singer Boz Scaggs is 80. Author Sara Paretsky is 77. Rock singer Julie Driscoll, formerly of Brian Auger and Trinity, is 77. Actress Sonia Braga is 74. Actress Kathy Baker ("Picket Fences") is 74. Singer Bonnie Tyler is 73. Guitarist Greg Ginn (Black Flag) is 70. Actor Griffin Dunne is 69. "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams is 67.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
booksofmyheart.net | Sara Paretsky
Review copy was received from NetGalley, Publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Michael J. Gerhardt |Sara Paretsky
Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn’t a born leader. He became one. As a boy he was in poor health, was insecure, and an average student at best. Growing into manhood, the lessons he learned came not from books but from influencers of his lifetime, beginning with Endicott Peabody, the most renowned US headmaster of the twentieth century.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Michael J. Gerhardt |Sara Paretsky
An international traveler reaches into the snack bowl at an airport bar before passing her credit card to a waiter. A business meeting begins with a round of handshakes. A man coughs on a crowded bus… One contact. One instant. And a lethal virus is transmitted. When Beth Emhoff (Paltrow) returns to Minneapolis from business in Hong Kong, what she thought was jet lag takes a virulent turn.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Michelle Gable |Michael J. Gerhardt |Sara Paretsky
It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she’s completely broke. But she’s just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons—famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars—and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Michael J. Gerhardt |Sara Paretsky
The book is in stores on Tuesday, April 16th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/49tKNPtCaroline Kline isn’t ready to strike out. In New York City, newly single Caroline is stumbling her way through the recent implosion of her life. After a surprise breakup leaves her with no job, no apartment, and no backup plan, she’s unsure of what to do next.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Sara Paretsky |Michael J. Gerhardt
The book is in stores on Tuesday, April 16th from William Morrow. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3tLsVjvV.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her unflinching courage. All that changes when a case ends with a father killing the child she’d been hired to find. She’s second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout.
