Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee perfectly captures the feeling of being a woman in her 20s in her brand new memoir, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About. For twenty-somethings this will be incredibly relatable, and for those of us who made it through that time, it will conjure feelings of nostalgia that leave you both with......
We Burned So Bright
Buckle up for a road trip unlike any other in We Burned So Bright. Rodney and Don reflect on the life they’ve built together over forty years, against impossible odds. When a rogue blackhole appears on the edge of the solar system, the couple realizes their time together will be cut short. One important item......
Storm Warning
Storm Warning is Alice Henderson’s fifth wild and wooly, storm-tossed, action-packed suspense novel featuring protagonist wildlife biologist and environmentalist adventurer Alex Carter. Her current assignment to study and protect imperiled hawksbill turtles in tropical Hawai’i seemed like an idyllic vacation of sun, surf, swimming and snorkeling. The intensive military survival training taught to her by......
Lucien
J.R. Thornton’s second novel, Lucien, is a captivating cautionary tale of a master manipulator who persistently abused the friendship of his naïve college roommate, dazzled by the trappings of wealth. It’s an erudite thriller replete with unforeseen twists involving two Harvard College undergraduates who become art forgers. In a single-page prologue, narrator and protagonist Christopher......
Society Women
From the title, Society Women might seem to be a light diversion, a frothy, amusing tale of the escapades of wealthy urban dwellers who live to shop, gossip and lunch. Instead, Adriane Leigh has written a diabolical, scorching tale of revenge directed at morally bankrupt predators. Women of every class have been victimized or controlled......
Small Boat
Small Boat is a powerful and crushing work of translation written by Vincent Delecroix and translated into English by Helen Stevenson. It is short, less than 200 pages. A quick punch, but its effects linger. Small Boat takes us back to November 2021, to a real-life accident that we all probably heard about from the......
I Who Have Never Known Men
What would a world without men be like? What would it be like to grow up without ever knowing a man at all? Jacqueline Harpman’s novel I Who Have Never Known Men offers few concrete answers in response to the questions it poses — of which there are many. The story features no main antagonist......
The Primrose Murder Society
Fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series will heartily embrace The Primrose Murder Society for its originality, charm and warmth. Stacy Hackney introduces an unlikely crew of amateur sleuths investigating a twenty-one-year-old cold case murder that took place in Richmond, Virginia’s upscale Primrose building. This landmark condominium filled with wealthy retirees has an age......
Dear Monica Lewinsky
As someone who was a young teenager during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, I can remember having strong feelings. How could the President of the United States act in such a way? But also — how could a young woman, not all that much older than myself, degrade herself? Reframing Monica: From Scandal to Saint Julia Langbein’s fictionalized......
