Synopsis: When freelance writer Charlie Jensen injures herself in a holiday DIY accident, she finds herself laid up with only ten days to prep for her annual Holiday Tea. Her cat Steve is useless at babysitting, but fortunately, her good friend, Dev Bhandari is willing to help. Trauma doctor Dev Bhandari has been ordered to […]
Through a chink in the boards of a lean-to built against a cottage wall, a creature watches a family he has never met. There is a blind old man who plays a stringed instrument, a young woman who weeps when she thinks nobody can see her, and a young man who goes out each morning […]
A guest has come to tea dressed in black. She sits on a small, uncomfortable chair in a drawing room of rose brocade and Dresden figurines, beneath a portrait of a dead woman, and she holds a little rum cake on the edge of her saucer that she will not, under any circumstances, eat. Her […]
An atmospheric gone girl mystery with a fantastical, grisly twist As a band of four, Aislin, Breena, Vivien, and Poppy have haunted their cultish town of Devil’s Pointe, bound together by their traumatic, off-kilter upbringings. Driven to flee from its puritanical populace, the girls spend weeks planning their escape to the woods, only to be […]
A provocative and insightful exploration of trust, leadership, and a better way to play the business game The Damn Rules by Nick Richtsmeier is a refreshing, down-to-earth book about the opposing mental models we use to approach business, leadership, and careers. Richtsmeier calls these mental models the “extractive game” and the “expansive game.” The extractive […]
There is a bumblebee on Signy’s pillow, and it should not be there. The bees live in the gardens, and Signy is in bed, in the early artificial dawn of a moonlet where the wall lights warm to orange on a schedule. She coaxes the exhausted insect into her cupped hands, walks it through the […]
The nutcracker weighs about as much as a piano. It was carved from a single log, it stands taller than most men, and on the coldest night of December Ella Chambers is dragging it, wrapped in old blankets, out of a mansion basement and across an icy driveway toward a car that is older than […]
Julia Song is Undateable Julia Song is Undateable by Susan Lee is $1.99! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet. It’s a childhood friends to lovers contemporary romance. Have you read this one? CEO seeks dating coach Critically acclaimed and reader-favorite author Susan Lee’s hilarious adult debut is a shimmering and joyful look at […]
Sally Rooney is pulling her books from the UK after the Normal People and Intermezzo author and her publisher agreed on the move. The statement from publisher Faber reads: Current legislation in the UK has led to circumstances where Faber cannot pass on UK earnings to Sally Rooney for her work. To sell a writer’s […]
Eight hours out of Browning, at a truck stop in Williston, North Dakota, a young man who has spent four months in a hospital bed cannot make himself use a urinal. A trucker coughs in a stall. An old cowboy two places down finishes easily and leaves. Back in the camper, on the road again, […]