The U.S. is riven by civil war once again, only this time over fossil fuels. The South (Reds) want to continue their use and the North (Blues) have outlawed them. The world has changed mightily: the U.S. is no longer a superpower and barely a…
This is the story of a friendship between Elisabeth, a British woman in her 30s, and Daniel, the much older man (by seven decades) she befriended as a girl when they were neighbors. He now lives in a rest home, asleep or unconscious most of the…
Acclaimed storyteller Jeff VanderMeer (the Southern Reach trilogy) is back with another fascinating tale of the creepy and weird. Rachel is a scavenger in a decaying city in a dying world. With her partner Wick, a master engineer, she tries to…
Marzano-Lesnevich was a Harvard law student and summer intern at a Louisiana law firm dedicated to defending death penalty cases, and she herself was decisively in the anti-death penalty camp. But when she was shown the taped confession of Ricky…
“Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be,” Anne Lamott writes in her latest book of essays on faith. In sharing her own struggles to give mercy to herself and others, Lamott becomes this…
This series launch by a debut author is a fast paced mystery with two tremendously likeable leads. Dr. Harry Kent is a veteran of Afghanistan who is moonlighting as a police surgeon with the London Metropolitan Police. He is called to the scene of a…
Jewell’s novel begins with an intriguing plot line: Alice finds a man sitting on the beach in East Yorkshire who has lost his memory. Meanwhile, a woman's husband goes missing, and in a flashback plotline a brother and sister meet a disturbing…
Ove is a fifty-nine year-old man who complains about everything. “He’s the kind of man who points at people he doesn’t like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman’s torch.” He drives a Saab and thinks anyone who…
Christina Baker Kline's 2013 bestseller Orphan Train showed that she is a master of complex, often angry, and fascinating female characters with complicated histories. Her followup takes that mastery even further. Based on the life of Christina…
In the 1920s, the recent discovery of radium led to a variety of novelty products sold using the element: radium water (for health!), and glow-in-the-dark watch faces. Employed to paint those watch faces were young women, many of whom later…
Subtitled “A Sermon to White America,” this small but important book challenges readers to face hard truths about race in America. Minister and Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson writes directly to the reader, passionately…
An acclaimed writer, recipient of an NBF 5 under 35 award, Luiselli recently volunteered as a translator for a New York Immigration court, interviewing undocumented children facing deportation. The required immigration form asks forty tough…
These splendid short stories take us into a world of nine-year-old serial killers, those who are possessed, and the mundane cruelty of the real world. Enriquez could be labelled the “feminist Stephen King” or the modern equivalent of Shirley…
For her entire life, Loo's been on the run with her father, Hawley, without knowing why. When they suddenly settle down in the small hometown of her deceased mother, they try to fit in, but Hawley's gritty past can't seem to be shaken. Alternating…
