She also managed to save Gilbert Stuart's masterpiece portrait of George Washington, one of the few works of art to survive the ensuing fire.

She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called his deep, black, velvety smile. Yet, she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert...

Finally, she turned and headed for home. She planned to fix herself a cup of lemon-ginger tea and pick a book from the stack on her coffee table. It didn't matter which title she chose, every book had...

I also reread my Nancy Drew collection every few years.

That's my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?

The wound is the place where the light enters you. -Pablo Neruda

A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. -The Arabian Nights

It's always that way when you're looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don't know where the hell the time went.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Did you

In the distance, she heard the whistle of the afternoon train. Nora never tired of its long, heartrending note. What other sound could convey both the romance of returning home and the ache of...

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us . . . in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best...

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. -Pablo Neruda Jedediah Craig. It's a pleasure

The greater part of the truth is always hidden . . . -J. R. R. Tolkien

The list was a mixture of hardship and hope. Pain and renewal. It would serve as a recurring reminder that, though the past colors our present, it doesn't have to dictate the future.

to our congregation, Savannah whispered leadenly as Bryant

In the end, she pulled a DVD from the cabinet below her television and finally settled onto the sofa to watch the 1940 classic, Rebecca. Olivia knew every word of the film by heart but never grew...

Eric Ripert's 32 Yolks, Joanne Harris's Chocolat, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Richard Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody, and...

A bowling ball crashed into the pins and Jane jumped and realised her task was much bigger…Storyton Hall's reputation was at stake as well. For decades, people had come to the resort seeking respite...

Einstein also said that 'Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.' He

But when it looked as those the clam-kicker wouldn't cooperate

The librarian, Ms. Glenda, has been there for ions. She has an uncanny memory for name and faces.

She then slapped a Hello Kitty bandage over the cotton

As she inched forward through the congestion on Interstate 40, a highway that had been under construction for the past ten years, her mind wandered back to the photographs Detective McDowell had...

Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket.

room without books is like a body without a soul. -MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

threw me off guard. The chief's eyes crinkled

Draiocht.It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.

Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.

There could be a trail of dead bodies from here to Arkansas.

How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean-split lengthwise-in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain...