The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa on December 7, 2021 Genres: Fiction / Animals, Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary, Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Magical Realism Pages: 208 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “Books have tremendous power.” Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves […]
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore on July 2, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Psychological Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods is a book that has a little bit of everything so I think this book […]
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross on April 4, 2023 Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Romance Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads “I think there is a magical link between you and me. A bond that not even distance can break.” When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, […]
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson on April 30, 2024 Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State, History / United States / 19th Century, History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Pages: 592 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Where are my history buffs that also like a good […]
The book opens with an introduction that encourages readers to explore its contents however they wish rather than feeling constrained to read in order from beginning to end. Science writer Thomas divides the information into six sections: “Earth,” “Near-Earth Space, “Our Solar System,” “Stars,” “Galaxies,” and “The Universe.” Readers can tighten their Kuiper Belt and […]
“The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other.” With that opening sentence, Stonex plunges us into the mind and world of Bridget “Birdie” Keller, a wife and mother in the rural countryside of Wiltshire, England. But Birdie’s world is not quite so tranquil: 18 years earlier, a man was […]
Matthews revisits themes from his earlier biography, Bobby Kennedy: Raging Spirit (2017), condensing them into 10 brief “lessons” meant to show why RFK’s character and ideals remain relevant in a fractured America. The narrative, barely 90 pages, padded with generous white space and followed by a lengthy appendix of Kennedy’s speeches, reads like a quick-to-market […]
Auld focuses on an African beetle, but as her information-packed book notes, similar species are found on every continent but Antarctica, and “in forests, farmland, and deserts,” as well as in the savanna. Among the many books about the dung beetle, this one stands out for tracking a particular beetle’s life cycle, but without giving […]
Mira can neither forget nor forgive the Moon family and its cruelties. Both pushed her impoverished mother to open the gas in her apartment, dying by suicide and killing her son, leaving Mira utterly alone. So, when she finagles a job tutoring Yujae, the youngest Moon son, she finds herself well-positioned to seek revenge. Her […]
Charlie Wags may appear to be an average golden-brown puppy, but he has a very special trick: with a wag of his tail, he can travel the world. In a departure from previous titles, the most recent of which is The Tales of Charlie Wags: London (2025), the Christmas season inspires Charlie to visit several […]