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• The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

  

  Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

  

  Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

  

  Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Murder By Page One by Olivia Matthews

  

  Marvey, a librarian, has moved from Brooklyn to a quirky small town in Georgia. When she’s not at the library organizing events for readers, she’s handcrafting... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Nesting by C. J. Cooke

  

  Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway – in the same place where he lost his wife... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

  

  West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Little Bookshop of MURDER by Maggie Blackburn

  

  Summer Merriweather’s career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder’s thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper’s pit, so Summer... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife by Liese Sherwood-Fabre

  

  Before Sherlock Holmes became the world’s greatest consulting detective… A Scandal rocked the Holmes family. A cache of documents has been recently discovered... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Familiars by Stacey Halls

  

  Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies have borne fruit, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lock In by John Scalzi

  

  Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Forgotten Bones by Vivian Barz

  

  When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they’re quick to pin the crime on a convicted felon who lives nearby. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

  

  For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Song of The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning (Tour Stop)

  

  In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Last Summer by Kerry Lonsdale

  

  Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets and every socialite who eyed her with... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse

  

  “We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.” With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira

  

  It’s 2072, and lunar helium-3 mining is powering the fusion reactors that are bringing Earth back from environmental disaster. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sunday Post/Book Haul

  

  The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. A post to recap the past week, and share news about the upcoming week. First Sunda... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  

  A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Death in Kew Gardens by Jennifer Ashley

  

  In return for a random act of kindness, scholar Li Bai Chang presents young cook Kat Holloway with a rare and precious gift—a box of tea. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders # 1) by Robin Hobb

  

  Wizardwood, a sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE