BOOKLOVES

A tender, heartbreaking memoir that captures years of love even in fading memories In I Live You For Ever, author Meredith Rutter Marple shares a close and honest look at what it means to love and care for someone through the slow and unraveling reality of dementia. The memoir explores love, devotion and the complex […]

A thoughtful story about acceptance that’s quickly becoming one of my daughters’ favorites Sarah was born different. Healthy and strong, a sweet and adorable smile on her face, but one thing stands out from the rest of the herd: her bright pink skin. It’s the only difference, but you couldn’t tell the other young elephants […]

If you have ever boarded a plane hoping for an empty middle and instead landed beside someone who rearranges your spinal column with one glance, The Missed Connection by Tia Williams will feel like a love letter to that exact six hours of in-flight delirium. Williams, the Brooklyn-based bestselling author of Seven Days in June […]

A taut, character-driven tale of desperation, consequence, and the systems that close in In The Suitcase by R. A. Van Vleet, we meet Robert Donegan, a man who has lost almost everything—his job, his marriage, his home. Now living with his sister, Tyne Williams, he accepts a $3,000 driving job to stay afloat. The offer […]

A loving, poetic book about how it’s okay to cry Everybody cries. It’s not so hard for little ones to let those tears fall, overcome with so much emotion they can’t understand or control, but it’s trained out of us as we grow. Kids picking on other kids being vulnerable, coaches and parents telling them […]

When a woman offers Denver’s residents the chance to be heard, stories spill out. Moving from Tennessee to Denver, from southern hospitality and close-knit communities to a place where residents are polite but distant with “big-city banter” that doesn’t quite cut it, Kelly feels a gap. She wants to know Denver on a deeper level. […]

When the first book in this trilogy ended with a woodchipper and a severed head in a bird feeder, you already knew the sequel wasn’t going to whisper. Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver opens with a defrosted body on a tarp, a raven mocking everyone in his perfect impersonation of his owner’s voice, and a […]