🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fast and furious look at memory, trauma and the terror of navigating both, as we meet a survivor of a terrible crime, nine years later, and share in her frantic quest to resolve her part in a past she cannot reconstruct. Charlie Colbert, now a successful NY editor-in-chief,…
🌟🌟🌟💫 An earnest, albeit depressing, look at climate change, thirty years down the road, and the political upheaval at play in a world no more divided than what what we have in place today. As tensions rise to the critical point, measures put in place by a ‘Green New Deal’-…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An interesting and intelligent anthology of essays covering the stories, analysis and commentary of a number of excellent true-crime writers. The authors consider many aspects, including but not limited to the traditional true-crime narrative, as they unpack societal influences and larger issues surrounding crime and its encapsulation in media,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Creepy and unsettling, this Australia-based read is part domestic thriller, part mystery, and all dark foreboding as the story weaves an ominous path through the trials of three adolescent foster family charges. As each girl suffers domestic tragedy and is “lucky” enough to find herself sequestered in Wild Meadows…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 The second in the North Devon based DI Matthew Venn series, Two Rivers, this is crime writing at its most immersive. As Matthew and his crew work to unpack a series of horrific deaths, the author continues to build on the backdrop of recurring characters - beginning with Venn…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A complex, challenging and thoroughly mesmerizing read. Rosalind Fisher is eighteen years old, a freshman at a preppy Ontario University. An unlikable character, Rosalind is self-absorbed, shallow, and focused on the single-minded pursuit of the ‘cool’ kids, who she believes will automatically bolster her own insipid image. And Rosalind…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫A funny and touching middle-grade read about being twelve years old, struggling with the indelicate symptoms of a chronic and life-altering illness, and falling for your first crush, at precisely the age where “everything about being a human feels overwhelmingly embarrassing”. Our first person narrator, Alison (Al), lives with her…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A funny and captivating murder mystery, featuring a quartet of octogenarians who are as charming as they are quick-witted. Companions at the luxurious Coopers Chase Retirement village - Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim and Ron, our main protagonists - enjoy wine, gin and tonics, gossiping, and sunshine as they contemplate life…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An adorable rhyming picturebook that introduces a pre-school child (and his adult reader) to the joyful world of a puppy, Zeffy, his adoption, and his settling in, on his path to becoming an indispensable part of the wonderful world of his new Hu-mom. Sure to delight tiny pet-lovers everywhere,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gripping and evocative look at identity, belonging and the quest to resolve both, particularly when in conflict with society’s expectations. Stella and Desiree are identical twins, black by heritage yet so light-skinned they could pass for white, a possibility that holds promise in the racially explosive nineteen-sixties and…