Delta WeddingWith a new introduction from Anne Tyler. From one our most treasured American writers, Delta Wedding is a vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the familys preparations for her cousin Dabneys wedding.

Smelling freshly fallen rain

enigmatic Edouard

Schulz’s beloved Peanuts gang

from cotton to coal to railroads to oil to airplanes—even at the expense of the very nation that forged them

• Update (or finally get) the

Vincent's son

a dead body is discovered among the detritus of a recently concluded rock festival—a beautiful young woman stabbed so savagely through the chest that a piece of her heart was sliced off

" Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise

reporting on child soldiers and warlords like Charles Taylor

and practical solutions she found along

and supervising technology companies

peaceful existence on the coast of Maine