84, Charing Cross Road

84, Charing Cross Road

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Helene Hanff Penguin Books | 97 pages | $13 Recently, a new friend, and fellow book lover, welcomed me into her home. At her kitchen table, she’d stacked books she thought I’d like. As someone who...
Closing Time

Closing Time

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anita Paddock | Pen-L Publishing | 195 pages | $15 Most of us go to our jobs every day without a passing thought that evil might find us there. But in September 1980, two criminals walked into Staton’s...
The Stranger in the Woods

The Stranger in the Woods

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Michael Finkel | Alfred A. Knopf, 191 pages |$26 In 1986, Christopher Knight was twenty years old. He had his first job, installing home and car alarms in Massachusetts. At twenty, he’d never been on a...
I Let You Go

I Let You Go

[title subtitle=”Review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Clare Mackintosh | Berkley | 369 pages | $26 Late on a cold and rainy afternoon in Bristol, England, a mother walks her five-year-old son, Jacob, home from his after-school program. Darkness is falling,...
Faithful

Faithful

[title subtitle=”Review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Alice Hoffman | Simon and Schuster | $26 I love books for all kinds of reasons. Come to my house, and you’ll see the bookcases filled, the nightstand by my bed stacked high, the coffee table holding the...

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