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 […]
Somewhere in the second half of Burning Bright by John Steinbeck a woman tells a man, very coldly, that she will do anything at all to bring her husband contentment, and instructs him to remember that she said it. She means it literally. She is already sure her husband can father no children, that the […]
The 18th century marked a historical period in which rapid changes occurred, especially in the rise and fall of empires as revolutions and Enlightenment ideals spread throughout the second half of the century. At the beginning of the century, Saint Petersburg was founded under Peter the Great, the Asante Empire rose in what is now […]