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Too Close To Home

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A heart-pounding thriller, based on the stories of three women, each of which will connect to the other in ways the reader will absolutely not predict. Told in three alternating points-of-view, between these pages we will visit an affluent New England town, the fictional Cloverhill Lakes, and the entitled,…

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Joyride

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Breezy and candid, intimate and expansive, this memoir, by non-fiction writer Susan Orlean, refuses to be typecast. The author, an expert in the art of a quirky sort of storytelling, featuring uniquely interesting real-life characters, places or topics, each of which is are not quite what you’re expecting, will…

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The Approval of Sheep

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gordon Slee is a bit of a loser. Or, at least, he thinks he is. Bullied and taken advantage of by his cretin of a boss, Edward Creaton, and terminally disappointing to his awful parents, Gordon is forty-two years old and has never managed to live up to his…

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Ferdinand Fox Saves the Day

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Six charming stories featuring my new favorite literary unsung hero, Ferdinand Fox (sure to be a favorite of your early reader too). Between these pages, Ferdinand is a busy fox β€” as he roams the countryside, he rescues a trapped boy, helps a box of kittens find a new…

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The Wasp Trap

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An expertly paced psychological thriller, this book builds to a nail-biter of an ending that absolutely does not disappoint. A compelling read, with a bevy of interesting characters, the story enters on an only-gradually illuminating plot that will keep you guessing, from start to finish. Told in alternating timelines,…

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Best Offer Wins

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• I couldn’t have loved this book more. Brilliantly sardonic, between these pages we will meet the literary world’s currently most interesting first-person POV protagonist, Margo Miyake β€” a single-minded gleefully narcissistic thirty-eight year old, whose single, overarching goal in her chaotically-controlled life is to own her dream home. With…

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Coping with Cancer in Early Adulthood

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A comprehensive, compassionate look at the specific challenges and approaches targeted to assist patients with early-onset cancer (diagnosed in one who is eighteen to forty-nine years old). As unbelievably challenging as a cancer diagnosis at any age is, the author, a clinical psychologist who has focused her practice exclusively…

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Within This Darkness

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What an ending! What a book! A slim volume, sumptuously threaded with the fantastical β€” this beautifully crafted read is the first in a trilogy that may be targeted to young adults, but is absolutely loved by this reader (who can barely remember that time period). Dark in parts,…

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Penitence

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Are we exposed by, defined by, the worst thing we’ve ever done? Do our actions teach the world how to label us, hate us, mistrust us β€” or are we better than that, all of us, people who are struggling, who mess up (often royally), who often mean well,…

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Dealing with Feeling

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This powerful book is written by a self-proclaimed (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) β€œMaster of Feelings”, Dr. Marc Brackett, a professor focusing on Emotional Intelligence, and in particular, the perhaps lesser-known practice of emotional regulation. We cannot control the situations we find ourselves in, but we can learn to manage (that is,…

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