In the Time of Five Pumpkins
In the Time of Five Pumpkins is the 26th book in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, which began in 1998. Sir Alexander McCall Smith has mentioned in filmed talks and emailed letters to his legion of faithful readers that he typically revisits these dear friends in Botswana in mid-January.......
Save Us
Save Us is the third book and the final installment in Mona Kasten’s Maxton Hall series, which gained popularity in the U.S. after an explosive first season on Prime Video. Season One closely followed book one, Save Me, and with season two releasing later this month, we’ll all find out......
Eternal Ruin
*Contains spoilers for Immortal Dark* Hot on the heels of the acclaimed release of Immortal Dark, Tigest Girma returns to the seductive world of Uxlay University in Eternal Ruin. The final chapters of Immortal Dark had readers desperate for the next installment in the story of Kidan and Susenyos, an...
Black-Owned, the Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
America’s first Black-owned bookstore belonged to a fervent abolitionist, David Ruggles. From the start, he encountered racial harassment that would plague Black bookstore owners through the next century and beyond.  The ordeal of Ruggles, who opened his shop in 1834 on Lispenard Street in lowe...
History Matters
History Matters is a posthumous collection of essays and speeches written by renowned and revered historian and biographer David McCullough (1933-2022). Edited by his daughter Dorie McCullough Lawson and long-time researcher Michael Hill, most entries are previously unpublished. Shortly after the 19...
The Secret of Secrets
Robert Langdon returns in Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets, and this time the world’s favorite symbologist is facing one of his most personal and mind-bending adventures yet. When his partner, renowned noetic scientist Katherine Solomon, vanishes in Prague along with her groundbreaking manuscri...
Lucky Break
Jaclyn Westlake charmed a wide audience and garnered well-deserved stellar reviews last year for her debut novel, Dear Dotty, about a young woman who is adrift after losing her beloved great-aunt and her job in the same week. Lucky Break, her second romantic comedy, continues in a similar vein with....
The Black Wolf
Once again, bestselling author Louise Penny propels Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec on a hunt that threatens his life, his loved ones and his community in The Black Wolf, the sequel to her bestseller, The Grey Wolf. The Wolves Within: A Battle Between Good and Evil......
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 17
I have to admit, as a horror writer, editor and reader, these “best of” anthologies are like candy. Part of me wants to curl up on the couch and read such a lovely volume straight through, and another part wants to savor it, reading it story by story, taking a......
