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Cynthia Cassidy

Cynthia Cassidy is a middle school librarian in Warren Township, New Jersey. Cynthia has been a presenter for ISTE, NJAMLE and NJEA and won the SIGMS Technology Innovation Award in 2011.  She is committed to using her skills as a teacher, librarian and technology educator to develop a school community in which the infusion of technology, research and literature into instruction bolsters student motivation and achievement.

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April 4, 2016

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Tuesday, April 5th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of NIGHT WORK: A Michael Cassidy Novel by David C. Taylor, which releases tomorrow. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Angela Warsinske

Angela graduated with an undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan University with a triple major in creative writing, art history and Theater Arts and a masters degree from Wayne State University in Library and Information Science. She is currently working as a full-time youth services librarian in Southeastern Michigan. She loves reading books, reviewing books and recommending books to people of all ages, especially those who are reluctant to read. At a young age she always loved the places stories could take you.

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Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom

The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite THE KITCHEN HOUSE continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.

Published in 2010, THE KITCHEN HOUSE became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book’s characters that the author, Kathleen Grissom, found herself being asked over and over “what happens next?” The wait is finally over.

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George Brett

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

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George Brett

Week of April 11, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of April 11th include MY JOURNEY WITH MAYA, a memoir by Tavis Smiley, who shares his personal memories of his decades-long friendship with Maya Angelou, who left as indelible an imprint on American culture as she did on him; A PATTERN OF LIES by Charles Todd, in which a horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths; and WOMAN WTH A SECRET, a dark and chilling psychological thriller from Sophie Hannah in which a woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in her past is drawn into a murder investigation.

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Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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Heraclitus

Edward Bunyard

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.

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Edward Bunyard

April 1, 2016

I finally finished ALL of the black jellybeans. Last Saturday, I treated myself to a bag of “black only” ones. I placed them in bowls on the table for Easter. Mom brought multi-colored ones, and I am now making my way through those. I'm betting I can find the “black only” ones on sale this week. WILL I be able to resist? I think that I have the same willpower for this as I do for peppermint Oreos. Cue the word NONE!

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Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and Robert Capa’s photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.

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