BOOKLOVES

A tantalizing Nigerian-flavored collection that baffles and entices with its inventive blending of the fantastical and the everyday The stories comprising In Wonder, Your People, aside from some recurring names and locations, have little in common with each other. However, one element consistently emerges: a wistfulness often stemming from regret—not from characters wallowing in it […]

Some books arrive like a slow tide. Others crash on you in one wave. Our Perfect Storm does both, which feels right for a novel set on the wild edge of Vancouver Island, where the weather flips in seconds and the trees are old enough to outlast any heartbreak. This is Carley Fortune’s fifth full-length […]

Some kids try to be good. Roosevelt Banks negotiates with the concept like it’s a contract he might be able to loophole. Laurie Calkhoven’s Roosevelt Banks: Good-Kid-in-Training drops readers straight into the mind of a fourth grader whose moral compass works—but only after a lively internal debate. Roosevelt isn’t a “bad” kid in the traditional […]

A tense exploration of loyalty, courage, and the human cost of living on opposite sides of an inherited divide C. Anne’s The Gap presents a world divided by both geography and history. Two communities exist side by side yet remain separated by deep mistrust and a mysterious boundary known as the Gap. Though the physical […]

Fourteen years after The Help parked itself on every book club coffee table in America, Kathryn Stockett has finally come back with another novel set in the same red-dirt corner of the South. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett trades the Jim Crow kitchens of 1962 Jackson for the Depression-era streets of Oxford, but the […]

Seductive, volatile, and laced with danger, The Artist and Her Lover dares you to fall. In this novel, desire is never quiet; it arrives passionate and complicated. The Artist & Her Lover: Part III opens not with a gentle unfolding, but with a collision of grief, ambition, and temptation, placing its heroine in a world […]