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 […]
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The Anniversary by Alex Finlay
Crime Scene: May 1, 1992 Some thrillers chase you through a single weekend. The Anniversary by Alex Finlay stretches the hunt across ten years, returning every May 1st to two seventeen-year-olds whose lives split apart on a single Nebraska night in 1992. Quinn Riley, the bookish kid from the wrong side of Monarch, swings a […]
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Tortured Soles by Fran Weinstein
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 […]
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Broken Dove by Dani Francis
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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Not Safe for Work by Nisha J Tuli
Not Safe for Work by Nisha J Tuli on May 20, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Enemies to Lovers, Fiction / Romance / Workplace Pages: 341 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling […]
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Best books on Appalachian folk magic
From Primary Sources to Living Practice One of my earliest memories of my grandmother is after dark in the Appalachians… The post Best books on Appalachian folk magic appeared first on She Reads Everything.
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Seriously Collaborative Fun by Christy Hale
For me, memories of reading are about connection: curled in my father’s lap, listening to stories from The Fairy Tale Book by Marie Ponsot, or my mother at my bedside reading classics like The Secret Garden and Little Women. I even felt connected to Louisa May Alcott because we regularly drove past her house in Concord, Massachusetts. And so, books […]
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Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith
Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith on May 11, 2026 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith surprised me in the best way possible! I expected this to lean a little more immature because of the college setting, but the writing felt much more mature and emotionally grounded than I […]
Somewhere between the talking bunny and the rapping baby, this story does something sneaky: it helps kids sit with fear without being swallowed by it. Some children’s books help kids fall asleep. Others help them make sense of worries they don’t yet have the language for. Mari-chan and Roboto Bunny by Jon Kaczka is a […]