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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is an odd book. On the one hand, it’s grounded in a grimy, desperate post-Katrina New Orleans. Almost every character in the Read more...

Posted by on January 28, 2020

Bats: an illustrated guide to all species

Do bats drink blood? How do they communicate? Do bats hibernate? A beautiful, highly readable non-fiction book with exquisitely detailed photographs of all species of bats. This book has everything Read more...

Posted by on January 22, 2020

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

Vivian Forest, a single mother with a busy career in social work, has the chance of a lifetime – a trip overseas to the Sandringham Estate in England with her Read more...

Posted by on January 21, 2020

The Shape of Night

Ava Collete is a food writer from Boston, looking to get away for the summer to finish her new book of historical New England recipes. It might be more fitting Read more...

Posted by on January 14, 2020

Snapshot

In the near future, the police of New Clipperton have new tool for fighting crime: they can recreate a facsimile of the entire city for a given 24 hour block Read more...

Posted by on January 7, 2020

Where To Go When: Unforgettable Trips for Every Month

We all have our dream destinations to visit on our bucket lists. But a good question most people ask is “when is the best time to go?” Part of the Read more...

Posted by on December 31, 2019

Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen

Yasmin Khan, a human rights campaigner who likes to immerse herself in different world cuisines, has recently introduced her cookbook “Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen.” Her visit to Israel Read more...

Posted by on December 24, 2019

Educated: A Memoir

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where the madness lies?” Tara Westover grew up the youngest of a devout Mormon family, home bound in the rural mountains of Idaho. Read more...

Posted by on December 17, 2019

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The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

A woman takes up bodybuilding on a whim, starts getting huge but her husband doesn’t notice. A sales clerk at a clothing store waits on someone who cannot find anything Read more...

Posted by on December 10, 2019

The Castle on Sunset : Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont

The Sunset Strip is famous in Los Angeles, but how much do we really know about one of its most iconic and storied buildings? From Jean Harlow’s taking of lovers, Read more...

Posted by on December 3, 2019

Titans: The Complete First Season

The first season of Titans is a superhero story is the spiritual successor to that violent, gritty blend of comic book film-making which began with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Read more...

Posted by on November 26, 2019

Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch

It was the stillness of the mountain that invaded Eduardo Strauch’s mind, body and soul, making him unable to talk about his survival of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Read more...

Posted by on November 19, 2019

Such a Fun Age

Alix Chamberlain is a white, successful Manhattan mom with two kids, a loving husband, and an amazing babysitter her daughter adores. She started as a blogger and has built her business showing other women how to get what they want. Emira is a young black woman, a recent-ish grad feeling aimless in her next step in life, so she babysits 2 year old Briar while she tries to figure things Read more...

Posted by on November 19, 2019

A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder

After a year spent “mourning” the sudden death of her philandering husband (who died in bed with his mistress no less) American born countess Francis Wynn is ready to move Read more...

Posted by on November 12, 2019

The World That We Knew

This novel begins in Berlin in 1941 and follows the life of a young Jewish girl, Lea, whose mother, Hanni, will do anything to keep her safe. She consults a Read more...

Posted by on November 5, 2019

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