An insightful memoir about compulsive behavior, self-discovery, and the enduring possibility of change Aimee Zaring’s Cutting Loose: My Journey from Survival Mode to Embodied Flow is part memoir and part exploration of somatic healing. In the book, Zaring recounts her struggle with trichotemnomania, a little-known compulsive disorder characterized by the repetitive cutting or shaving of […]
Content warnings: Sexual relationship with a minor A refined, edgy take on a rock & roll band’s attempts to break into the mainstream Tear Here follows the story of Some Assault, a group composed of recalcitrant high schoolers and their headstrong, charismatic drummer Liddy. The narrative is a bittersweet tale of an ensemble in transition […]
There is a particular ache that comes from loving someone you have quietly stopped seeing. You share a bed, a mortgage, a dog, and yet somewhere along the way the person becomes furniture. Always there, easy to walk past. The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren takes that small marital tragedy and does something audacious with […]
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 […]