While we traditionally recommend a weekend read, we thought a roundup of places for free ebooks, audiobooks and yes, even magazines, might be more helpful. Many have their own apps for reading on a variety of devices. Here are some of our favorites: Scribd, the world’s largest digital library, is …
Today on Amazon for $1.99: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Lotto and Mathilde meet in college and fall madly in love. They begin their lives in New York in the 1990s where Lotto pursues acting while Mathilde works in an art gallery to support them. When one drunken night …
In honor of baseball’s spring training I recommend The Resisters by Gish Jen. In a post-new world order called Auto-America, much of the country is under water and divided into two classes: The Netters, fair-skinned people living on higher ground and afforded life’s luxuries and The Surplus, mostly copper-toned people …
Don’t let the premise deter you. Dear Edward is a beautifully written novel that deftly moves the reader between heartbreak and hope in the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy. Twelve-year-old Edward is the only survivor of a horrific plane crash that takes the lives of 191 people, including his parents and …
Happy Valentine’s Day! In the spirit of today’s festivities, we’re going to recommend two romance books for your weekend reading pleasure. (Stop rolling your eyes – did you know that romance accounts for half the books sold each year, beating all other genres in sales?) The Hating Game by Sally …
For Oscar weekend, a mutterhood reader recommends Demi Moore’s memoir Inside Out. Moore, who rose to superstar status with movies like Indecent Proposal, A Few Good Men and Ghost, was one of the first women in Hollywood to demand pay equity with her male co-stars. Here she recounts her rocky …