Steve Donoghue

The Emilys Is a Readable Feast

On Friday, August 14, author Heather Abel will give a talk at the West Tisbury Library about her new book, The Emilys. The event begins in 3:30 p.m., where Ms. Abel will be in conversation with writer and podcaster Gabriel Roth.

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Tough Times in the Big Easy

Elisa Speranza divides her time between New Orleans and the Vineyard, and in her latest novel, Triage, it is the Big Easy that takes center stage.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: The Washashore

At the beginning of Bird Jones and Marshall Highet’s new novel The Washashore, 16-year-old Emily Cartwright is arriving on the shores of 1929 Martha’s Vineyard.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Boy

The two young main characters in Nicole Galland’s boisterously winning new novel Boy are each at a kind of personal crossroads.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Such a Good Mom

Julia Spiro’s third novel, Such a Good Mom, opens on deceptively conventional grounds.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Represent

On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.

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The Vineyard Bookshelf: The Lost Letters From Martha's Vineyard

The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan, Mariner Books 2024, 304 pages, $30.

Michael Callahan’s new novel The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard opens in 2018 and introduces Kit O’Neill, a junior producer on a failing Manhattan TV show, who’s trying to put a brave face on the enormous tragedy that’s struck her life: her beloved grandmother Nan has died.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Attacked

The subject of West Tisbury resident Marc Favreau’s latest book for young adult readers is the surprise attack launched by Japan on the US Naval base at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Morning Pages

The title of Kate Feiffer’s new novel comes from an exercise recommended by Julia Cameron in her bestselling book The Artist’s Way.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Becoming Gandhi

In Becoming Gandhi, author Perry Garfinkel seeks to emulate the famous Indian leader who for most of his life adopted a stark personal simplicity.

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