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“Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline is an action-packed, Sci-Fi fantasy story. The book starts in the early 2000’s, when James Halliday and his business…

“Shanghai Faithful” by Jennifer Lin is a memoir that takes us through three generations of the author’s Chinese family. Their fate is heavily intertwined…

This is probably the most important book I’ve read this year. Jane Mayer’s book, "Dark Money," makes the argument that we now have three major political…

“Time to Heal” is the latest in a time travel series of historical novels for middle schoolers. The author, Todd McClimans, is also an elementary school…

This essay originally aired on August 11, 2016.Here is the guiding question to Don DeLillo’s newest book, Zero K: “We were born without choosing to be.…

From T.S. Eliot to Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson to Flannery O’Connor, faith and poetry have long been companions. Each is a guide, in its own…

This essay originally aired on July 28, 2016.Heat & Light is Jennifer Haigh’s third novel about the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. It’s a place…

I came across author Dana Faletti’s self-published young adult trilogy “The Whisper Series,” when my two teenage daughters rapidly read them during one…

Todd Davis, a professor at Penn State Altoona, teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature. In his newest book of poems,…

This essay originally aired on November 5, 2016.If you remember Frank Rocco as an assistant coach with Joe Paterno in the 80’s, you’ll be surprised to…