A Spell for Midwinter's Heart
In A Spell for Midwinter’s Heart, author Morgan Lockhart whisks the reader away into a small mountain town filled with magic. This book hits all the marks I want from a romance for the holiday season: cozy, fantastical, and filled with eclectic characters and local business owners rising up agains...
Thief of Night
“There’d always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn’t willing to double down on.” — Holly Black, Book of Night Holly Black returns to modern adult fantasy with the final installment of the Charlatan Duology, T...
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan is no stranger to tackling big questions. Over his decades-long career, he has given us novels that explore morality, memory, love and loss through the most intimate of lenses. With What We Can Know, he sets his sights on something even more ambitious: the very limits of human......
Veil
Veil by Jonathan Janz is the spiritual lovechild of movies like Predator and novels like The War of the Worlds and The Three-Body Problem. A story of endurance and perseverance, love and humanity. It’s impossible not to relate to the characters in this novel, asking yourself, “What would I be......
Among the Burning Flowers
Most readers I know, myself included, long for additional insight into some of their favorite stories long after they finish the first page. Samantha Shannon‘s The Priory of the Orange Tree is a thousand-page masterpiece but had me yearning for more details on some of the secondary characters ...
Vianne
Vianne is rightfully one of the most highly anticipated books of late summer. Anglo-French award-winning author Joanne Harris has presented her legions of fans with the gift of a prequel to her million-copy best-selling novel Chocolat that debuted in 1999. While not entirely faithful to the book, th...
The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand has built a devoted following with her summer novels set in Nantucket, books that explore family, romance and the delicate tensions beneath the surface of small-town life. Readers who enjoyed Summer of ‘69, The Identicals, or The Hotel Nantucket have come to expect her sharp obser...
Monopoly X
Philip E. Orbanes is an American Board Game designer, former senior vice president for research and development at Parker Brothers and the world’s foremost authority on the history of the board game Monopoly. His latest book on the game, Monopoly X, is aptly subtitled: How Top Secret World War Two...
Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue
Spencer Quinn, pseudonym for the always entertaining and clever author Peter Abrahams, has kept readers anxiously waiting for two years for Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue. Fans will not be disappointed with the return of the delightful amateur sleuth Loretta Plansky, who debuted in 2023 with the memorable ...