Author: Matt Geiger Book: ASTONISHING TALES!* (Stories and Essays) *Your Astonishment May Vary Publishing: HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc. (December 1, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): In his new collection of stories and essays, acclaimed author and humorist Matt Geiger seeks to de-familiarize us from the world, from the smallest detail to the most cosmic mythology, in […]

Author: Mary Higgins Clark (with Alafair Burke) Book: YOU DON’T OWN ME (An Under Suspicion Novel) Publishing: Simon & Schuster (November 6, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don’t Own […]

Author: Stuttering John Melendez Book: EASY FOR YOU TO SAY Publishing: Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book (November 13, 2018)   Synopsis (from the Publisher): Easy For You To Say is “Stuttering” John Melendez’s memoir of his childhood being bullied in school for his stutter; his years as an on-air personality with The Howard Stern […]

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Book: LEADERSHIP IN TURBULENT TIMES Publishing: Simon & Schuster (September 18, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians. Insight is her imprint.”—USA TODAY “A book like Leadership should help us raise our expectations of […]

Author: Michael Beschloss Book: PRESIDENTS OF WAR: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times Publishing: Crown; First Edition edition (October 9, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, […]

Author: George Howe Colt Book: THE GAME: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 Publishing: Scribner (October 9, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story in the tradition of The Boys in the Boat about an unforgettable group of young athletes who […]

Author: Gordon S. Wood Book: FRIENDS DIVIDED: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Publishing: Penguin Books; Paperback edition (October 23, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of […]

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Book: IN THE HURRICANE’S EYE: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown Publishing: Viking (October 16, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition […]

Here is my Davenport Cleaners Halftime interview with Mike Wankum, a meteorologist at WCVB-Channel 5 in Boston.  Those of us in Siouxland remember Mike when he was the Chief Meteorologist at KTIV in Sioux City a few years ago.  Since his days in Sioux City, Mike has moved on to bigger and better things, as […]

Author: Tana French Book: THE WITCH ELM: A Novel Publishing: Viking (October 9, 2018) Synopsis (from the Publisher): “Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns.” –The New York Times A brilliant new work of suspense from “the most […]