A subversive portrait of female friendship and feminist activism set in the years leading up to and during Prohibition Fueled by a string of expertly managed mysteries (both personal and criminal), The Neighborhood Dames is historical fiction at its grounded best—challenging social norms and hopeful of change. The Neighborhood Dames opens with former songwriter and […]
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Deadly Dilemma by Anthony Gurley
Content warning: suicidal ideation A deeply personal memoir about depression, faith, and the lifelong search for self-worth Anthony Gurley explores suicide, faith, identity, purpose, and self-worth in Deadly Dilemma. The memoir opens with what appears to be a present-day suicide letter. From there, the story traces Anthony “Gene” Gurley’s life from childhood into adulthood as […]
There are a lot of big books coming out this fall, many of which will probably be covered in our round-up of what the biggest book clubs are reading. If your club is looking for something more low-key and comforting, though, you might want to add a new cozy title to your reading list. You […]
A book with an absurd title but a serious pursuit to understand what it means to become whole While some experiments require a laboratory, Rupert Kite conducts his in the messy, unpredictable laboratory of everyday life. Whereas the previous volume in Kite’s Becoming Conscious memoir examined what it meant to feel alienated from the world […]
The balloon comes down at sunrise. It has been drifting all night with three children curled in the bottom of a small wicker basket painted with stars and stripes, and now the ground is rushing up to meet it: church towers, red roofs, a wide stone plaza where a crowd is gathering to stare. The […]
Synopsis: An idyllic paradise. A deadly secret. A detective who can’t escape the past. When Detective Karen Skaryd and her husband arrive at a luxurious Caribbean resort to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, they expect sun, relaxation, and romance. But when a prominent guest drops dead in the middle of lunch—with a cryptic biblical message […]
A celebration of curiosity, conversation, and the joy of learning There are books that tell stories, books that present arguments, and books that document lives. Letters 2 Lance occupies a rather more unusual space. Across two substantial volumes, Jack Dunsmoor constructs an extended correspondence that is at once memoir, travelogue, reading journal, historical reflection, philosophical […]
An impassioned manifesto on human creativity, intelligence, and ambition Intelligence isn’t just about retaining facts. In this ambitious, deeply thought-provoking work, author Scott Hadley Morgan divulges that it’s about observation, art, expanding the mind, and using the tools at your disposal without overusing them. Accelerating Intelligence is an expansive book on the nature of intelligence. […]
The bathroom is small, tiled and loud. Somebody has turned on every tap, and the water drums into the tub while two men sit close together and talk under the noise. One is a major in the KGB, a big, restless Russian who once played in a Moscow rock band. The other is a young […]
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