Job Junky by Rudy Ridolfo Genre: Memoir / Work ISBN: 9781069354532 Print Length: 162 pages Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Eric Mayrhofer Rowdy, frenetic, and a little bit filthy, Job Junky hurtles along with shocks and fun. If there was a machine for taking a pair of books, mashing them together, and making a new, insane […]
Isaac Fellman’s latest novel, Notes from a Regicide, stands as a testament to the power of narrative innovation, weaving together science fiction, family drama, and trans literature in a way that feels both revolutionary and deeply intimate. Following his Lambda Award-winning The Breath of the Sun and the critically acclaimed Dead Collections, Fellman continues to […]
Pathway to Freedom by Lucinda T. Green, Ph.D. Genre: Religion & Spirituality / Buddha ISBN: 9798891324985 Print Length: 224 pages Publisher: Atmosphere Press Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by John M. Murray An accessible and engaging overview of Buddhism, meditation, and how to incorporate their teachings into modern life While humanity has evolved from the hunter/gatherer tribes […]
Synopsis: Jacquelyn Pajot is a nine-year-old American girl whose excitement over a solo visit to her grandmother in Paris is soon diminished by the discovery that the grandmother is far more devoted to dragging her to church every day than she is in showing her the much-anticipated sights of the city. Jacquelyn’s despair is remedied […]
In Night Music, Jojo Moyes composes more than just a story—she creates a melancholic sonata where loss lingers like a note unresolved and healing comes not in sweeping gestures, but in slow, stubborn rhythms. Unlike the immediate tug of Me Before You or the sweeping scale of The Giver of Stars, this novel leans into […]
In her first foray into the cozy mystery genre, Murder at Gulls Nest, acclaimed Irish author Jess Kidd delivers a wonderfully atmospheric tale that introduces readers to one of the most unconventional detectives in recent mystery fiction. Following her success with novels like Himself (2016) and Things in Jars (2019), both of which garnered significant […]
In Midnight in Soap Lake, Matthew J. Sullivan returns with a masterful psychological mystery that simmers with tension, grief, and the surreal pull of myth. Set in a fictional Washington town whose name is as peculiar as its history, the novel examines how places absorb pain and how the people within them either deny, distort, […]
Hannah Beckerman’s fifth novel, Three Mothers, is a taut, emotionally charged psychological thriller that examines the lengths to which mothers will go to protect their children. Set against the backdrop of an affluent London suburb, this compelling narrative explores the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Isla Richardson’s death in a hit-and-run accident and the devastating consequences that […]
In The Boomerang, bestselling author Robert Bailey trades the courtroom for the war room, then for the windswept plains of the American Southwest. The result is a compelling political thriller that feels disturbingly relevant. This is a novel about secrets so dangerous they demand silence, and about a father so determined to protect his daughter […]
Synopsis: Growing up in the inner-city ghetto of South Philly, eighteen-year-old River Matthews always felt different. It’s not just her biracial heritage that makes her stand out. In a neighborhood where most of the girls are too concerned with getting their hair wet, River’s love of the ocean makes her an enigma. On a rainy […]