There is a particular kind of ache reserved for the people who knew us before we learned how to perform. Before the posture and the pretense, before we started calculating which parts of ourselves were safe to reveal. Just Friends by Haley Pham lives inside that ache, and it does not flinch. Haley Pham, known […]
Title: Miracle on Hammertown Road: One Man’s Fall and Salvation Author: Jim “Bubba” Bay with Mic Ruzich Genre: Biographical / Inspirational Miracle on Hammertown Road: One Man’s Fall and Salvation by Jim “Bubba” Bay (with Mic Ruzich) tells Bubba’s life story of trials and tribulations. On November 15, 2009 while walking home, Bubba moves quickly to avoid an oncoming car. Due to rainfall and erosion, the shoulder of the road is… […]
Fourteen years is a long time between novels. When M.L. Stedman published The Light Between Oceans in 2012, it became an international bestseller, sold over three million copies, and was adapted into a DreamWorks film. Readers have been waiting ever since for what came next. A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman is that long-awaited second […]
The first installment of the Starlight Grove series, Across the Vanishing Sky, pulls you into the mountains with a single mother’s desperate search, a reclusive hero haunted by bloodline, and the kind of tension that simmers under every shared glance. A Return That Changes Everything Some stories begin with a homecoming. Across the Vanishing Sky […]
Twin Rivers by Jeremy Bender I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: The High Priest rules the city of Twin Rivers in the name of the Lord of Mercy, his AI god. In this land, where robotic Brothers complete all labor and humans are left […]
The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell was originally published in 1852. It appears in the short story collection The Old Nurse’s Story and other tales. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Old Nurse’s Story by […]
A psychologically rich portrait of a teenage girl suspended between the rituals of 1990s girlhood and the otherworldly possibilities that beckon her Squeezing onto a cramped bus seat after the driver forces kids to make room, contorting herself into a bathroom stall so she won’t be seen while skipping class, banking calories like a form […]
There is a particular kind of ache that comes from loving something the world tells you should be incompatible with who you are. Ahmad Saber knows this intimately, and in Ramin Abbas Has MAJOR Questions by Ahmad Saber, he channels it into a debut so tender, funny, and gut-wrenchingly real that you will laugh on […]
Fierce teens and found-family energy power this action-packed small-town murder mystery. We meet Ayden the morning after a night out with his best friend Matthew. It was a big night for everyone in the sleepy small town of Rogland: the mayor’s annual town fair. In keeping with town fair tradition, after the adults go to […]
A wacky, multiverse-hopping romantic comedy about a man traversing alternate worlds to profess his love for his best friend “Every version of Gary understands the same rule: say nothing and keep her, say something and risk the universe.” What do you do when you find yourself in love with the one person you can’t seem […]