Softhearted & warm—a brother-sister bond, unbreakable even in fragility A life, together. Sealed by childhood experiences, by support, by unconditional love. “Best brother ever.” “Best sister ever.” But on the day of a family reunion, news changes everything. The phantom health problems Nancy keeps talking about? They’re related to a cancer diagnosis. It’s probably nothing, […]
Plenty of crime novels open with a corpse. This one opens with a man studying his own face, counting the silver creeping into his hair, wondering how many good years his looks have left. He is Ulises, a small-time swindler in 1943 Mexico City who courts lonely women by mail and empties their bank accounts. […]
There is a particular kind of fantasy that smells of coal smoke and wet stone, where magic is not a gift but a resource somebody else wants to strip out of your veins. Stacey McEwan writes in that register, and her second Artisan Trilogy installment leans all the way into it. A Forsaken Prophecy by […]
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Synopsis: Mark Robson is trapped in flux. Every 18 minutes and 32 seconds he wakes up in a new reality, then dies. The only clues to help him stop this crazed cycle and return home to his pregnant wife are the people, things, and events that reappear across worlds, …or what he calls his constants. […]
It Audit Be You by Madylen Valdes Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads It Audit Be You was my first book by Madylen Valdes, and it definitely won’t be my last! This was such a fun, easy read with a fast pace that kept me turning the pages. I flew through it because the story […]
Some series end with a whisper. This one ends with a catapult, a ballgown, and roughly a hundred short chapters sprinting toward the finish line. The Gilded Blade by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the third and final book in The Grandest Game trilogy, and it carries the weight of not one storyline but an entire […]
Anatomy of a collapse: How a creative institution drifted into disaster Into Oblivion: The Preventable Collapse of the University of the Arts turns institutional failure into something unexpectedly compelling. Part financial autopsy, part investigative critique, and part lament for a vanished creative institution, it examines the downfall of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UARTS). Andrew […]
An inspiring reminder that the greatest journeys are not measured in miles traveled but in knowledge gained Carol McIlwain’s Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins (Volume 1) is part travel memoir, part practical guide, and part reflection on lifelong learning. Rather than simply recounting a series of vacations, McIlwain sets out to explore what […]
An easy-going story collection that embraces slice of life humor and emotional depth Bag o’ Goodies is a grounded, contemplative collection that runs a wide gamut. The short fiction is textured with sprinkles of humorous verse in between, the poems like pieces of fairground taffy—both fun and a little sticky. Each story captures an organic, […]