A sharp exploration of danger, discipline, and the fragile illusion of calm Chasing Tsegi Winds is not a book you read half-heartedly; it demands careful attention to be fully appreciated. This memoir follows William Olive, a Vietnam War veteran turned balloonist and adventurer, whose deep love for geography and evident respect for the Navajo (Diné) […]
Bold, defiant, subversive, meditative Ana is a woman like any other—a mother, a career woman, a sister, a daughter. She moves through the world gracefully, orderly, giving away no reason to suspect the yearning within her, the secret desires that grow more ravenous by the day. That is, until she meets Gabriel and steps into […]
A book like Partita by Barbara Kingsolver arrives every few years and earns its place on the shelf the slow way, one sentence at a time. It is patient where most contemporary novels are hurried, and it asks of the reader something more like attention than excitement. Kingsolver’s eighteenth book of fiction, following her 2022 […]
Mary Helen Dunagin spent decades collecting Lladró figurines and quietly stashing twenty-dollar bills in a Chock Full O’Nuts coffee can. After her funeral in Savannah, her two estranged daughters discover she also gave away her life savings to a slick televangelist named Brother Jerome and mortgaged the family house to do it. What she left […]
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin on August 16, 2022 Genres: Fiction / Crime, Fiction / General, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage, Fiction / Thrillers / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 352 Format: eBook Buy on Amazon […]
Synopsis: One night of “mailbox metal” was supposed to be a reset. Instead, it became a life sentence. Illinois, 1998. Tommy Cancio and Todd Wells are fueled by cheap beer, jagged lines of cocaine, and the midnight fog of Champaign County. The mission is simple: a high-speed pass and the satisfying ping of a baseball bat against […]
Some books grow teeth as you read them. The Children by Melissa Albert is one of those books, a Gothic-tinged literary horror about siblings whose mother turned their childhood into a publishing empire, and the bill that comes due years after she died in the fire that should have killed them too. This is Albert’s […]
Originally published in 1887, Verotchka by Anton Chekhov tells the tale of Ognev, who reminisces about a day in his past when he let his love, Vera Gavrilovna, slip away. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Verotchka by Anton Chekhov Verotchka by Anton Chekhov […]
Writing is an act of love. You wake up early. You stay up late. You rack your tired brain for ingenious plot ideas and beautiful sentences while you’re at bus stops, at work, in the shower. You bang your head against your writing desk when the sentences don’t come easy. Writing good books is supposed to be […]
Of Frozen Monsters and Men: A captivating fight against the supernatural, the wilderness, and the doubt of men Greed is known as a cardinal sin—and for a good reason. A reason Jack Calsin knows better than anyone. As the sole survivor of an ill-fated voyage to the mysterious land now known as Alaska, Jack is […]