Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman on June 23, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women Pages: 304 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Catherine Steadman has done it again! Nine Lives is one of those psychological thrillers that slowly gets under your skin. At first, you’re happily […]
Journey to the Heartland thoughtfully merges the Chinese immigrant experience with the struggle to accept one’s sexual identity and find belonging. “‘Mom, if the Earth is round, what about the people in the southern hemisphere? How could they not fall off the Earth?’” Hanwei Zhou grows up in a Chinese factory town during the industrial […]
A touching, everyday love story and the past that shaped it When Michael meets Andrea in a cafe, he can’t help but reach out. Literally. Trying to sit at a nearby table, Andrea is greeted by a helping hand she didn’t ask for. And while it might be awkward and at least a little bit […]
There is a moment early in this novel when a teenage girl describes her own smile as a weapon, something she aims at customers to make them feel special. That single line tells you what kind of book you have picked up. In Pretty Dead Things, Kelsey Cox is not writing about a beauty pageant. […]
Never Lie by Freida McFadden on June 26, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 304 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged […]
A thoughtful, intertextual memoir about learning to survive a grey world that always seemed written for someone else “I had already understood the only purpose of education was to fit me for adulthood in a mad world.” People often move through the world assuming that social rules and rituals are universal and intuitive. Yet much […]
Stories bouncing between reality and unreality, paired with abstract artworks, result in a unified, surprisingly accessible collection. This slim but consistently satisfying volume contains just five stories, making it viable to include a few words on each. It begins with a dignified alderman obliging an odd request that puts him in what might be deemed […]
“In the Wake of the Ruined” begins with its heroine crawling out of the sea on all fours, dragging a dead king’s sword and a dead king’s crown, with a hole in her middle packed with kelp and blood-soaked sand. She has kept herself alive by paying a price she does not fully understand yet. […]
Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry on April 7, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Fiction / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Fiction / Fantasy / Epic, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Pages: 592 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads After absolutely loving Shield of Sparrows, I couldn’t wait to dive […]
There is a particular kind of romance heroine we have all met before. She comes home from something terrible, she flinches, she whispers, and she waits for a good man to coax her back into the world. Into the Fading Twilight by Catherine Cowles takes that woman, hands her a mountain bike, and shoves her […]