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A Journey of Belonging in Nicholas Sparks’ Latest Novel — Soon to Be Adapted for Screen

Counting Miracles is Nicholas Sparks’ latest novel — his 25th — and it is a wonderfully heart-warming read that will be heading for the big screen in an adaptation by Amazon. The New York Times bestselling author has set the story in Asheboro, North Carolina, crafting an uplifting tale of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 25, 2024

Romance

Lessons Learned From Small-Town Xmas Romance, “The December Market”

Usually when I review a book, I like to give my impressions, talk about what kind of reader would like the book, and give my thoughts on the writing, the entertainment value of the story, and the connection I made with the characters. Today, I want to talk about The…

Y. M. NelsonOctober 8, 2024

Nonfiction

Ta-Nehisi Coates Tackles Race, Oppression and Global Issues in “The Message”

The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ fifth book, has arrived and its gorgeously crafted writings are incisive and provocative. In intertwined essays about his recent trips to three places — Senegal, South Carolina and Palestine — the award-winning author unravels the vital relationship between stories and our view of the world past…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 4, 2024

Fiction Young Adult

“An Ember in the Ashes” Author Returns with Spellbinding YA Romantasy, “Heir”

An orphan, an outcast and a prince find themselves on the same path as they battle the demons that come with a world obsessed with power and vengeance in this spinoff of Tahir’s bestselling Ember in the Ashes series. Sabaa Tahir is the type of high fantasy author who takes…

Aurora DominguezOctober 2, 2024

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Fiction Miscellany

Telling Stories of Folklore and Superstition in Southern Appalachia

Author Kimberly Brock shares stories of the place that inspired her new book. The Fabled Earth is a sweeping novel of family lore and the power of finding your own voice. Southern mythology and charm collide with personal reckoning in this dual-timeline story of three women connected in different ways to…

Kimberly BrockOctober 1, 2024

Business Nonfiction

Mastering The Game: Wilbur Ross on Power, Profit, and Perseverance

It was one of his earliest and most unforgettable moments in corporate life. Young Wilbur Ross was closing a real estate deal with the legendary Bill Zeckendorf at the real estate magnate’s panoramic and totally circular office. Catching Ross gawking at his surroundings, Zeckendorf comes up from behind, puts his…

Jim AlkonSeptember 10, 2024

Thrillers

A Girl Disappears. The Aftershocks Do Not.

“People don’t just disappear. Of course they don’t. They take up too much space in the world. They are pounds of flesh, gallons of blood. Teeth, bones, fingernails. It all has to go somewhere.” In Sarah Sawyer’s The Undercurrent, it is 2011, but it might as well be 1987. That…

Neil NyrenSeptember 27, 2024

Miscellany Young Adult

She Wrote About the Psychological Confinement of Women — Because She Lived It

In this essay, author A.S. King shares her personal history with domestic violence and abuse. Her novel, Pick the Lock, is a stunning, surrealistic, and provocative YA book that explores how our world treats women, told through the eyes of a teenage girl trying to pick the lock on her toxic family.…

A.S. KingSeptember 23, 2024

Fiction

Latest in Mystery Series Tackles Human Rights and Deadly Crimes

The Whitewashed Tombs is the fourth book featuring Private Investigator Emma Djan in this “sunshine noir” mystery series so named for its basis in coastal equatorial Ghana by Ghanaian American author, Howard University College of Medicine graduate, and retired physician Kwei Quartey. For 20 years during his successful career in…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 19, 2024

Fiction

Richard Osman Delivers Laughs and Twists with a New Wacky Crime-Fighting Trio

Whenever Richard Osman releases a murder mystery, readers know they are in for a clever, good time. In We Solve Murders, (Pamela Dorman Books), Osman creates a wacky trio on the run from a Russian oligarch and a stream of anonymous assassins. When the bullets fly, Osman keeps his readers guessing…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 17, 2024

Fiction

A Recurring Dream Inspired This “Cozy Apocalyptic” Novel

I wanted to write a book about the end of the world — the end end, not a book where it almost ends and someone saves it, or one where it could end if these shadows remain unaltered, or even one where the earth is destroyed but the humans escape…

Suzy KrauseSeptember 17, 2024

Fiction

Keanu Reeves and China Miéville Join Forces in Psychedelic “The Book of Elsewhere”

B is surviving, but not living. Existing with unconscious effort for over eighty thousand years, brought forth by a myth-spinning mother and lightning bolt of a father, he has been a weapon from birth and cannot avoid a life dedicated to killing, though he cannot die himself. Such an existence…

C RunyonSeptember 16, 2024

Fiction

Historic Edinburgh Gets a Touch of Magic in Popular TikToker’s “The Ghost Cat”

Author Alex Howard completed his doctorate in English Literature while writing his first published book The Library Cat: The Observations of a Thinking Cat, winner of the People’s Book Prize and translated into several languages. This Edinburgh native wears many hats as a theater professional as well as being an…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 12, 2024

Fiction

A Wild Ride Through 1916 Hollywood’s Darkest Corners

The Devil Raises His Own is replete with characters that are lewd, crude and socially unacceptable racing towards H E double Toothpicks with little or no chance of redemption with the possible exception of the admirable boardinghouse cook, housekeeper and widowed Mrs. Chen. Her only unforgivable “sin” in the eyes…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 11, 2024

Fiction

Discover Morally Gray Heroes Amid High-Stakes Uprisings in Chloe Gong’s ‘Vilest Things’

Vilest Things (Saga Press) by Chloe Gong is a breathtaking return to the twin cities of San-Er, where the streets practically breathe with their own life and people have the ability to jump between bodies with the power of qi. In this thrilling sequel to New York Times and USA…

Kiersten BjorkSeptember 12, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Moriarty’s Latest Thrilling Novel Asks: Can Fate Be Changed?

Bestselling author Liane Moriarty returns with a gripping story of love and loss in Here One Moment. On a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia, Cherry Lockwood is a nondescript passenger who does something out of the ordinary. Forty-five minutes into the flight, she unbuckles her seat belt and…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 10, 2024

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