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An emotionally charged drama about the aftermath of a mother’s suicide Death and All That Follows thoroughly conveys the full spectrum of feelings experienced by twin siblings Sara and Nico as they travel home to gather with family to mourn. Here, the author weaves a fascinating tale about love, loss, acceptance, and forgiveness that doesn’t […]

Content warnings: Domestic abuse A necessary gut-punch of a book that balances tragedy with renewal A woman is killed by a family member or partner every eleven minutes, with homicide being one of the leading causes of death for women. Sometimes, the danger escalates when a woman tries to leave her abuser. With the enduring […]

Part heartfelt memoir, part Hollywood tell-all, Tortured Soles is a love letter to late 20th century entertainment culture. In this sure-handed memoir, celebrity journalist Fran Weinstein shares her evolution from “wounded little girl from the Bronx in bargain-basement buckled flats” to stiletto-wearing Hollywood insider with the sharp candor of your favorite aunt. Weinstein covers ample […]

The trouble with following a runaway bestseller is that everyone arrives with expectations clenched in their fists. With Broken Dove by Dani Francis, the second installment in the Silver Elite series, Dani Francis (the pen name of contemporary romance veteran Elle Kennedy) doesn’t try to outshine her debut. She does something harder. She trusts that […]

A moody, suspenseful noir about stolen money, revolutionary ghosts, and the kind of ambition hell-bent on drinking itself under Ron Morris’s Edge of the Golden Moon opens with a classic noir premise, but it gets stranger, sweatier, and more psychologically complicated as time goes on.  Bert is a teacher at a language school in Bangkok, […]

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