Icarus
Icarus is a new queer YA romance novel from K. Ancrum, critically acclaimed author of The Wicker King. Filled to the brim with vibrant imagery, vivid detail and vivacious characters, it pulled me in from the very first page! Icarus reimagines the classic myth of Icarus into a queer, star-crossed......
Union Station (A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller)
David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1...
Where They Lie
Each month yields a fresh bumper crop of thrillers. They may be labeled “atmospheric, literary, spine-tingling, noir” or whatever the currently favored catch-phrase is for publicists to extol their clients’ virtues making it difficult for readers and reviewers not to become cynical about these...
Mona of the Manor
Written by the inimitable Armistead Maupin, Mona of the Manor is a refreshing romp in the Cotswolds, a tale of entrepreneurial ingenuity and a reunion followed by well-deserved retribution. It is the 10th and final installment of the author’s Tales of the City novels which began fifty years ago in...
The Book of Doors
The Book of Doors (William Morrow) offers up a delectable fantasy tantalizing for most people: travel anywhere, any time. It’s for anyone who’s daydreamed of another place, wishing they could go, wishing they could return, wishing it were easy. Gareth Brown‘s first novel is a windi...
This Could Be Us
On my first trip to the Skyland neighborhood in Before I Let Go, I cried. A lot. On my return trip in This Could Be Us (Forever) by Kennedy Ryan, I’m more shocked by the scandal and intrigued by slow-burn, forbidden romance between Judah and Soledad, but I still thoroughly......
The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
Thousands of years before Spanish soldiers and missionaries arrived in California, its northern coast was inhabited by Native Americans. The Ohlone people lived on the land that would become San Francisco. This beautiful peninsula, encircled by the ocean and bay, would be seized by the invaders in t...
House of Flame and Shadow
House of Flame and Shadow (Bloomsbury Publishing) is the highly anticipated third installment in bestselling author Sarah J. Maas’ Crescent City series. To say that I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time is an understatement. If you’ve read Maas’ body of work, you know just w...
Flight of the Wild Swan
“A writer at the height of her powers.” That’s how Oprah.com described Melissa Pritchard, whose latest work, Flight of the Wild Swan, is a majestic novel about Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine. Sweeping ye...