This week, Theo of Golden by Allen Levi has been bumped out of the #5 spot by the gothic romantasy novel The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig—the second book in the series that started with The Knight and the Moth. Romantasy is in an interesting spot at the moment. It continues to show […]
The room has no curtains between the beds, which she likes. People talk to each other. A nurse with a felt strawberry clipped in her hair tells her she has really prominent veins, and then that she is a good bleeder, and both land like compliments because nobody has praised her for anything in a […]
She has been dead for roughly a hundred years, and she still drinks her water. She still has a doughnut for breakfast and the occasional cigarette after dinner, even though her body requires none of it. And she holds on to these small habits deliberately, because they are the last human things she has left, […]
An empowering novel about finding purpose in the aftermath of a decades-long crumbling marriage Rachel has no complaints. In the suburbs of Southern California, she and Jeremy have managed to send their two children to college while maintaining their beautiful, cookie-cutter home and fairytale love story. Rachel’s domestic bliss implodes, however, on the evening of […]
A young soldier is taken down a maze of stairs into a windowless room beneath a desert military base. There is a drain in the floor. One wall is a sheet of dark glass with a spout set into the middle of it. She is told to stand on the drain, cross her arms over […]
A self-help playbook that encourages daily practice with approachable, optimistic guidance Author Karin Kiser is no stranger to the self-help genre, and her experience is evident in her newest offering, Happiness Unleashed: Your 90-Day Playbook for a Life of Meaning and Happiness that Lasts, where she emphasizes a daily practice of “mood boosters” and “pattern […]
At a day care on an ordinary residential street, the children are out on the playground at dawn. They climb the ladder, go down the slide, and climb the ladder again, and every one of them is crying while they do it. One has been sick down the front of his jacket and is still […]
A woman is being driven home from a faculty party by her husband. She has done something wrong, although it takes him several minutes to explain what: the pause before she said his name when she introduced him, which he demonstrates by stretching it out, longer and longer. She apologises. And she apologises again. The […]
Synopsis: A killer is making Los Angeles confess. The Confessor is never wrong. He has built his whole life around being sure of it. He chooses people who got away with it — never charged, never even suspected. The charity director who gutted his own foundation. The smiling influencer who built an empire on a […]
An introspective memoir about life’s setbacks, successes, and the moments that define us Beyond the Veil is a deeply honest memoir that invites readers not only to pause but also to look back and reflect on their own life experiences. It encourages them to consider the struggles, choices, relationships, and defining moments that have shaped […]