After the garden plans have been drawn, build one of the final fires of the season and curl up with The Garden of Reading, a collection of short fiction about gardens edited by Michele Slung. This appealing anthology of stories by some of the America’s best-loved writers, including James Thurber, Stephen King, Sandra Cisneros, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley and Garrison Keillor, will inspire daydreams featuring sunshine, acres of fresh soil and a handful of seeds. Deanna Larson is a writer in Nashville who describes herself as a journeyman gardener.
Valiant Women is a vital and engrossing attempt to correct the record and rightfully celebrate the achievements of female veterans of World War II.
