Some houses are cheap because the roof needs work. The one Rachel and Theo Collins buy in a remote corner of New Hampshire is cheap because, three decades earlier, an entire family walked into a storm and never walked back out, leaving behind only a stray dog and a spray
VIRA Broadcasting The VIRA Briefing Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Lead Story FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints Over Paramount Gifts Two government watchdog groups have asked federal investigators to examine whether FCC commissioners violated ethics rules by accepting years of free tickets to the Kennedy Center Honors gala from Paramount, CBS’s
Emily Giffin has built a career on the premise that the past never really stays past, and “Love You More” puts that theory to its toughest test yet: what happens when your old life calls you back just as your new one is finally clicking into place. Billie is a
Nearly three thousand years after it was first sung aloud, “The Odyssey” is back on the bestseller lists this week — proof that a story about a man who can’t find his way home still knows exactly how to find its way back into the culture. The poem needs no
Paris has hosted a thousand summer romances in fiction, but Kristin Harmel’s “Meet Me in Paris” makes a confident wager that one week and nine strangers are all the city needs to prove it hasn’t run out of ways to play matchmaker. The novel follows seven loosely braided love stories
Some memoirs ask to be read quietly. “All That’s Unseen” asks to be read carefully, because Emilee Hackney is not interested in easy villains or easy escapes, and readers looking for either will be disappointed in the best possible way. Hackney grew up in the coalfields of southwest Virginia, in
Heather Fawcett has made a career out of grumpy magicians who fall for people with absolutely no patience for their nonsense, and “Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter” gives her formula its most charming setting yet: a 1920s Montréal cat rescue that’s about to be pulled into a fight it never
Some mystery writers hide the truth behind a locked door. Robert Jackson Bennett hides it behind several doors, each one leading somewhere stranger than the last — and by the time you reach the real answer, you’ve forgotten you were ever looking for something else. “A Trade of Blood,” the
Meghan Quinn has built a career on making “he falls first” feel like a genre unto itself, and Just for the Plot, the second book in her Bay Area Players series, might be the cleanest example yet of why readers keep coming back for it. Bennett Brinkman is San Francisco
Somewhere between a shipping route and a love letter is where Sarah Beth Durst has spent the last three books of her Spellshop series, and Sea of Charms — the newest stop on that route — proves the formula still has plenty of magic left in the tank. Marin is
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