Schizophrenia has had a long, torrid history in the world of mental illness. As a disorder that manifests in a wide range of presentations and is only partially understood, it is also a fascinating peek into the complexity of the …
You don’t need to be a history buff to get wrapped up in this historical thriller. After the success of The First Conspiracy, Brad Meltzer and John Mensch team up for a second time to uncover the little-known, failed …
Set in Kansas in the months following the 2016 presidential election, The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals follows three characters as they try to figure out what it means to be family.
Animal lover Mona’s animal sanctuary is in serious …
This official Stars Wars knitting book by Tanis Gray does not disappoint!
The book is arranged by type, with toys, costume replicas, inspired apparel and home decor. Each pattern lists the size (one size for plushies, clothing size range, dimensions, …
Shuggie Bain, a debut novel by Douglas Stuart, is a story that will stick with you long after you’ve finished reading.
We follow Shuggie from age five to sixteen as he deals with complex feelings about his mother, an …
Grayson Sykes knows that a missing woman doesn’t always want to be found. Unfortunately, she’s a newly minted private investigator who doesn’t get to pick the clients.
The doctor who hired her firm is more concerned about his missing dog …
Can anything good happen in a town called Shudder-To-Think?
For El and Octavia, the Pennsylvanian mining town is all they’ve ever known. They’ve done their best to hang out, have crushes, and be as normal as they can while the …
Unfortunately for high school graduate Becky Farwell, her family circumstances prevent her from leaving her small central Illinois farm town to attend college.
While working in the business offices of the local government she discovers a seemingly harmless accounting error. …
January Anderson is out of money, out of her long-term relationship, and rage-grieving her dead dad when she pulls up to the beach house on Lake Michigan. This is the cottage her father left for her after his sudden death, …
Moody and atmospheric, this is the type of horror book that seeps into your psyche, leaving you wondering who is controlling whom, and how.
The evil threaded through the novel manifests as both grotesque and obvious, and subtle and pervasive. …
Grief is as tricky as it is painful. Words that comfort one day come up short the next. It’s difficult to be that friend who knows what to say or do. The closest thing I’ve found to a manual for “being there for a suffering friend” is There is No Good Card for This by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell.
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Everything is bad. Everyone is out to get you. And the world as you know it is ending soon. If you follow the news, that’s the narrative anyway.
Rutger Bregman, a historian from the Netherlands, argues that none of that …
This short, 138 page, dystopia novel won the 2018 National Book Award for translated literature.
Set in Japan at a time following an undisclosed disaster, the country has isolated itself from the rest of the world. Reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, …
Wood burning is an easy and fun way to customize and personalize wooden objects. I have dabbled in it myself and love the low cost entry point, and versatility.
The Wood Burn Book is a handy guide for getting started …
Ruth Ware returns to the locked-room mystery in One By One.
The team behind the newest social media sensation, an app called “snoop” that is a more voyeuristic Spotify, takes a work holiday to a rustic-chic French chalet. The …
Lois Lowry explores the strange mysteries of humankind, arcing around and around, circling back to the chance crossing of paths.
The story – and it is a story, collected in poetic fragments – looks both at the great behemoth of …
Wizard schools may seem like an old trope these days, but Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education puts a new twist on the education of the next generation of magic-wielders.
I enjoyed the pacing and characters in the first of the …
The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He’s got big plans, and no doubt he’ll see them through–as he’s creative, adventurous, smart, funny, and a good friend. Sometimes he falls, …
Plain Bad Heroines is two stories that are intertwined- one story takes us back to 1902, to a scene of tragedy at an all-girls school, and the other to the present day filming of a horror movie based on those …
If you don’t like profanity or photographs of ladies wearing bikinis, don’t read #VeryFat #VeryBrave. Nicole Byer’s book has a target audience, and it’s not you.
#VeryFat #VeryBrave is a funny, vulgar book about valuing yourself over societal beauty …
Readers looking for all the thrills of a ghost story without any body horror should check out Home Before Dark by Riley Sager.
Thanks to her father’s book, House of Horrors, Maggie Holt attained infamy at the age of …
Superheroes and villains need temp-workers too – who else is going to maintain the social media accounts?
Anna is hired to build a database, but soon finds herself promoted to fieldwork (in this case, standing in the background while a …
Set in Norway in the 1880s, this novel is part history lesson, part romance, part haunting.
When the local pastor decides to sell the seven hundred year old village stave church to the German government to be reconstructed in Dresden, …
