Divine Ruin
In 2023, Margot Douaihy introduced crime fiction to an unforgettable new heroine in the form of a tatted-up, punk rock, cigarette-smoking, lesbian nun named Sister Holiday. Having spectacularly blown up her life in Brooklyn — her family, her girlfriend, her band — she’d fled to the only place ...
Bad Baby
Bad Baby is the first book of a thrilling new series by author Stephen Martin. It opens when the brothers John and Merlin Cooper were in their teens living in a farm in Florida when they receive the news about their father’s death. This happened in the year 2001, specifically,......
The Swan's Daughter
New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi (The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves, Aru Shah and The End of Time) makes her highly anticipated return to YA this year with The Swan’s Daughter, an endearing tale set within a fairytale world packed with magic and mayhem. A Fairytale Curse w...
The First Time I Saw Him
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave brings the reader on a journey of twist and turns as the main characters race across the globe to end the decades long threat to their safety. The first book in the series, The Last Thing He Told Me, hooked me......
The Architect of New York
The Architect of New York is a historical biography of a Spanish immigrant, Rafael Guastavino Moreno Sr., a historical figure who introduced the Catalan tile vault system to the USA in the 1880s. The book is crafted by prize-winning author Javier Moro, who recounts the story from the perspective of....
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist is a must read for theater lovers, historians, performers and aspiring artists alike. The author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner explores his subject’s passion, drive, collaborative nature and the creative evolution of his many projects; his unlikely journey f...
The Secret Christmas Library
It’s no secret that this reviewer thoroughly enjoys the work of New York Times best-selling, prolific author and gifted storyteller Jenny Colgan, despite professing an aversion to romances. In addition to charmingly cozy novels, she has also written several scripts for television, children’s boo...
One of Them
Kitty Zeldis is a prolific author and gifted storyteller who ably captures the zeitgeist of the time period immediately following WWII in her well-crafted novel One of Them which focuses on two college girls struggling with identity and discrimination. It’s an unusual coming of age story involving...
Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser wears many hats as an art historian, college professor, foundation director and author of several well-regarded nonfiction books. His second novel is the international #1 best seller Mona’s Eyes, first published in Europe in 2024. It was translated from the original French for thi...
