Blogs in August 2016

Over and Under 11th August 2016

In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two fourteen-year-old boys—best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots with their Springfield M-6 Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are blissfully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding...

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All The Bright Places 24th July 2016

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when...

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The Double Life of Tutweiler Buckhead 27th May 2016

The Mayor of Indianapolis unleashes a special team of 4 to track down a local villain and to unravel a plot to manufacture meth amphetamine inside the 465 highway loop. The team is not what you might expect: A...

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The Stone Diaries 1st January 1970

Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within...

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The Magnificent Ambersons 1st January 1970

Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” is the second book in his Growth trilogy, which depicts Mid-Western life from the post-Civil War era to the early twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this novel follows the decline of...

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