Lauren Hough’s narrative chronicling her three-month trek across the country with her canine companion, Woody Guthrie, is contemplative and immensely entertaining.
Jamie Brenner's Blue Angel is a smart, sensuous, and thoroughly entertaining dive into the electric underbelly of New York City nightlife. This is seduction as literary art: wicked, atmospheric, and impossible to put down.
In one of the most anticipated releases of the year, Land tells the story of a peninsula on the western edge of Ireland in the aftermath of the great famine. In her first book following the breakout novel Hamnet, Author Maggie O’Farrell combines gripping generational drama with fabled mysteries of…
Sofia Montrone’s debut novel, Nymph, is a coming of age story that will sweep you away into the Italian countryside. Split into two parts, Nymph takes us on Leo’s journey as she grows from girl to woman.
There is a distinct, intoxicating friction in stories about the moneyed elite, but the true captivation begins when their immaculate facades start to crack. In these five exceptional contemporary novels, wealth and social supremacy are treated not just as privileges but as high-stakes, endless efforts of narrative control. The families…
History is filled with women whose stories have been overlooked, forgotten or left untold. In fiction, authors often reclaim those voices by blending the ordinary with the extraordinary, weaving together magic, folklore, spirituality and mystery to illuminate lives. The six novels below each focus on remarkable women whose gifts allow…
Missing Sister is a heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thriller that gets off to an explosive start right from the opening pages when a rookie woman police officer discovers that the victim in her first murder case investigation is a man she has long blamed for her sister’s death.
Last One Out is a deliciously twisty, compelling and unputdownable thriller about a mother’s long search for answers about what happened to her son who suddenly went missing five years earlier on his 21st birthday.
Ghosts of Sicily, subtitled The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy is the third nonfiction collaboration between best-selling authors Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, JR.
Isaac Fitzgerald is a New York Times best-selling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, recipient of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award and frequent Today Show guest.
Her name is Marion. Actually, it isn’t, but never mind. You know the type: young, blonde, and pretty enough. The first girl to die in the slasher films. But not this time.
Karsten Dusse’s debut novel Murder Mindfully, translated from the German by Florian Duijsens, is a jet-black satirical comedy so zany this reviewer nearly fell out of bed guffawing while gulping it down in one evening. The author lampoons the wellness industry, unscrupulous criminal defense lawyers, and ultra-competitive parents of pre-schoolers,…