The Inmate by Freida McFadden on November 27, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 425 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security:1) Treat all prisoners with respect.2) […]
Good Material by Dolly Alderton on August 1, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / General, Fiction / Humorous / General, Fiction / Performing Arts / General, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Good Material was my book club […]
There is a moment early in Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan when Dolly Brick, thirty-nine and biking through the wealthy Rhode Island town she grew up in, stops to change a flat tire for a man in a six-hundred-dollar shirt. The man is Stewart Whitfield. His family name is bolted to half the […]
A searing spiritual memoir that explores the far-reaching influence of Jezebel across generations and what it takes to overcome it The Jezebel Tracks delivers an edgy synthesis of remembering and evangelizing. It’s rooted in Gardner Landry’s belief that covert Christian narcissism reflects the spiritual influences of the Biblical Jezebel—the wicked queen. Getting away from this […]
A haunting curse, a sweet romance, and a bewitching magic system enchantingly meld together in this gorgeously written fantasy. Lily Bellamy and Andresh Zatavier are each haunted by the loss of a parent in their childhoods. For Lily, the haunting is literal—visions of her mother’s corpse follow her reflection. For Andresh, the haunting is emotional—a […]
A thoughtful middle-grade baseball novel with more on its mind than winning Suzanne Kamata’s Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters opens with a setup that might sound familiar. Satoshi Matsumoto has returned to Japan after three years in Atlanta, where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team. He comes back with a good […]
A sweetly relatable family vacation story where the middle child strives to make a name for herself Emma, the second of three siblings, is tired of being in the middle all the time. Squished between her two brothers on a long ride to the beach, she brainstorms how she can stop being second pick and […]
A tightly paced supernatural thriller involved in the seedy handlings of tech secrets In C.J. Finch’s ambitious page-turner Pull, a man with the psychic ability to gain people’s memories through mere touch is targeted for high-value unencrypted files by an unknown and equally gifted assailant. In New York City, Alex Hemsley is the chief technology […]
Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias on August 28, 2024 Genres: Fiction / City Life, Fiction / Satire, Fiction / Women Pages: 431 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads There’s a reason people call Miami Beach “a sunny place for shady people.” Welcome to Sunset Academy, the most coveted elementary school in Miami Beach, where […]
Every once in a while a debut novel arrives that feels less like a polished marketing object and more like someone finally saying the thing nobody else in the genre wanted to say out loud. Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick is that kind of book. Brooke Averick, the comedian and podcaster behind […]