Through a chink in the boards of a lean-to built against a cottage wall, a creature watches a family he has never met. There is a blind old man who plays a stringed instrument, a young woman who weeps when she thinks nobody can see her, and a young man who goes out each morning […]
A guest has come to tea dressed in black. She sits on a small, uncomfortable chair in a drawing room of rose brocade and Dresden figurines, beneath a portrait of a dead woman, and she holds a little rum cake on the edge of her saucer that she will not, under any circumstances, eat. Her […]
An atmospheric gone girl mystery with a fantastical, grisly twist As a band of four, Aislin, Breena, Vivien, and Poppy have haunted their cultish town of Devil’s Pointe, bound together by their traumatic, off-kilter upbringings. Driven to flee from its puritanical populace, the girls spend weeks planning their escape to the woods, only to be […]
A provocative and insightful exploration of trust, leadership, and a better way to play the business game The Damn Rules by Nick Richtsmeier is a refreshing, down-to-earth book about the opposing mental models we use to approach business, leadership, and careers. Richtsmeier calls these mental models the “extractive game” and the “expansive game.” The extractive […]
There is a bumblebee on Signy’s pillow, and it should not be there. The bees live in the gardens, and Signy is in bed, in the early artificial dawn of a moonlet where the wall lights warm to orange on a schedule. She coaxes the exhausted insect into her cupped hands, walks it through the […]
The nutcracker weighs about as much as a piano. It was carved from a single log, it stands taller than most men, and on the coldest night of December Ella Chambers is dragging it, wrapped in old blankets, out of a mansion basement and across an icy driveway toward a car that is older than […]
Julia Song is Undateable Julia Song is Undateable by Susan Lee is $1.99! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet. It’s a childhood friends to lovers contemporary romance. Have you read this one? CEO seeks dating coach Critically acclaimed and reader-favorite author Susan Lee’s hilarious adult debut is a shimmering and joyful look at […]
Sally Rooney is pulling her books from the UK after the Normal People and Intermezzo author and her publisher agreed on the move. The statement from publisher Faber reads: Current legislation in the UK has led to circumstances where Faber cannot pass on UK earnings to Sally Rooney for her work. To sell a writer’s […]
Eight hours out of Browning, at a truck stop in Williston, North Dakota, a young man who has spent four months in a hospital bed cannot make himself use a urinal. A trucker coughs in a stall. An old cowboy two places down finishes easily and leaves. Back in the camper, on the road again, […]
An utterly charming romp of an impossible-to-put down queer historical romance Beau Scamp by C.M. Harris hits every mark a reader of queer historical romance could ask for. Is there a dashing highwayman? Is there ever. How about an intelligent, underestimated lady? Yes, indeed. And the plot? How does a multi-layered genderbending masquerade fueled by […]