A sweeping international romance and deeply rooted love story told by two world-weary adults who are still kids at heart An epistolary novel that follows two star-crossed lovers across continents and decades, Isobel de Border’s Bella & Rami captures the intensity of first love and the still-hot embers of lifelong passion decades later. When Bella […]
Synopsis: From the award winning author of The Meaning of Androsia: A love story just slightly ahead of its time. Etienne first met Evangeline when she was sitting on a park bench in the Public Garden, on an otherwise ordinary morning in late summer. He didn’t really meet her on that first encounter. His eyes […]
A sweet and caring picture book about overcoming sadness with community and connection Everybody has bad days, even if it doesn’t look like it. The happiest kids in class—the ones surrounded by friends and laughter—can feel blue just like the kids sitting off to the side at recess. So what can we do to help? […]
Home for the Homicides by Elle Cosimano, Hannah Morrissey on October 13, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Holidays & Vacation, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction / Romance / Enemies to Lovers, Fiction / Romance / Holiday, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy Pages: 336 Format: ARC Buy […]
Two families become predator and prey in this macabre creature feature where every species must eat. “Of course, they knew upon whom they dined—no one mentioned it.” Two families enter the wilderness in Joshua David Robison’s The Antlered Ape. Only one of them is human. Solace has brought his son William and grandchildren—thirteen-year-old Eve and […]
Early in Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, Pilon finds a jug of wine that does not belong to him and reasons his way toward it in four unhurried steps. It would be wrong to drink it. It would also be wrong to let it spoil. The owner would surely wish it enjoyed. And is a […]
In January 1919 two babies are christened together in a Norfolk village church, because the formidable Dowager Countess has decided it would look well. The congregation sits strictly by rank. Afterwards the earl’s household drinks champagne at the Hall, while the shepherd’s family and their friends eat ham sandwiches at the pub, and only the […]
A moving wartime story about children finding courage even when the right choice isn’t always clear War has a way of stealing childhoods. In Lynda Riggers’s Beneath the Canopy, two twelve-year-olds are forced to navigate the violent impacts of war from hunger to displacement to the frightening reality that doing the right thing is not […]
Death is not the end of the story, it’s where the blood trail begins. Sean Esson’s The Flour Girl has the kind of opening that does not politely invite the reader in; it grabs them by the collar. Frankie Jones wakes in an alleyway in searing pain, with no memory, no wallet, no phone, and […]
Breathe in deeply through the nose. Before exhaling, take a second short, sharp inhale on top of the first, enough to fill the lungs completely. Then let the air out slowly through the mouth until there is nothing left. Dogs do a version of it before they settle down to sleep, and so do people […]