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• Upgrade by Blake Crouch

  

  When the SWAT team gives the all-clear and Logan Ramsay steps into the basement, he has no idea that everything’s about to change. Then there’s the hiss of... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

  

  In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Empire Of The Vampire by Jay Kristoff

  

  It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

  

  Daisy Ellery’s pies have a secret ingredient: The magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men…The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (translator)

  

  His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

  

  Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she is going on a self-coupling quasi-sabbatical–at the insistenc... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Couple On Maple Drive by Sam Carrington

  

  Have you heard about the couple on Maple Drive? Isla barely leaves the house after her brutal mugging. Her boyfriend Zach moved in with her after the attack.... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles #1) by Margaret Weis and...

  

  Life-long friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

  

  The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 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