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Best Books 2023 – Some of BookManBookWoman favorites

BookManBookWoman 2023 Favorites NONFICTIONKing by Jonathan Elg (FSG)The Comfort of Crows – A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl with Art by Billy Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)Alabama v. King – Martin Luther King Jr. & the

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Talk of the Town March, 2023

CLICK HERE TO GET THE VIDEO https://www.newschannel5.com/talk-of-the-town/spring-book-recommendations  Talk of the Town BookManBookWoman Spring 2023 Books “The Trackers,’ by Charles Frazier (Ecco/Harper Collins “In the Upper Country,” Kai Thomas (Viking) “Small Mercies,” by Dennis LeHane (Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers)

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Talk of the Town – December 2022

Click here to watch the video! “Now is Not the Time to Panic,”  by Kevin Wilson (Ecco/Harper Collins) “Fairy Tale,” by Stephen King (Scribner) “A World of Curiosities,” by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books) “Demon Copperhead,” by

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Talk of the Town – August/September 2022

“Talk of the Town” Aug/Sept 2022 “Gang Land,” by Chuck Hogan (Grand Central Publishing) “Finding Me,” by Viola Davis  (Ebony/HarperOne) “Dispatches from the Gilded Age: A Few More Thoughts on Interesting People, Far Flung Places, and

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Talk of the Town – March 2022

Talk of the Town March 2022 “Run Rose Run,” by James Patterson and Dolly Parton (Little, Brown and Company) “Moon Witch Spider King,” by Marlon James (Riverhead Books) “Shadows Reel – A Joe Pickett Novel,”

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Talk of the Town – October 2021

BookManBookWoman “Talk of the Town,” television October,  2021 Click here to watch the video!  TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER “Billy Summers” | Stephen King | Scribner “Harlem Shuffle” | Colson Whitehead | Doubleday “Vanderbilt” | Anderson

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WPCTN Summer Reading – June 2021

Click here to watch the video! Larry Woods  – BookMan FICTION – Larry Woods Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz While Justice Sleeps

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Talk of the Town – April 2021 – Great Springtime Reads

Click here to watch the video! How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue (Random House) The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press) Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press) The Quiet Americans

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Talk of the Town – December 2020 – Books for Gifts

Talk of the Town December 2020 Books for Gifts Click here to watch the video!  “Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics,” by Dolly Parton and Robert Oermann (Chronicle Books) “Untamed,” by Glennon Doyle, (The

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Talk of the Town – July 2020

Book recommendations from Talk of the Town, July 2020 Click here to watch the video! The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett (Riverhead Books) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (Bold Type Books/Perseus) If

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