1938 China, Meilin flees the encroaching Japanese with her son and a beautiful scroll embellished with stories, which was a gift from her beloved husband. On the road, sometimes with her brother in law and his wife and daughters, she reads the stories to her son to help him keep his courage. Over the course …
Set in an alternate late 50's Hollywood, Joseph McCarthy has been made president of a Far Right government after rooting out the alleged Communists in his HUAC witch hunt, and the major studios pump out propaganda. Baker is a Holocaust survivor turned detective who is pulled off the case of a double homicide by McCarthyist …
When Grace moves back to the small town in the UK where she grew up, she has a young daughter in tow and an absent husband, and she's hoping to rekindle her friendship with Anna, who has a child the same age. As children, they were inseparable, but Anna is part of a clique of …
Val, a linguist who specializes in dead languages, is processing the recent loss of her twin and living with crippling anxiety, when a girl is found frozen in ice near where her brother died in the Arctic. The girl was thawed out alive, and Val is asked to come and try to figure out what …
How good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men. The tagline above and on the cover explains the basic premise of this book. We open on the story of the wheeled suitcase. Anyone who has had to carry heavy bags or luggage will know that your fingers get cut into by the straps …
1978: two children live with their grandmother who is the head of an famous cutting edge asylum, when a young, traumatized girl is brought to live with them and their world starts to unravel. 2019: One of the children has grown up, now calls herself Lizzy, and is a podcaster who searches for cryptids, when …
Continue reading The Children On The Hill by Jennifer McMahon
Following a scandal, Helen flees with her husband to his ancestral home, Ballintyre, where his family still lives, but on arrival her beloved sister in law Sylla is mysteriously missing and no one seems to be looking for her. Helen is determined to get to the bottom of it, and in the process, we learn …
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is 25. The TV show, that is. And to celebrate this there's a new DVD release and a few things along that line, and also this book. Evan Ross Katz is a huge Buffy and Sarah Michelle Gellar fan. In this book, he has researched the show, it's cast, it's backstory, …
Continue reading Into Every Generation A Slayer Is Born by Evan Ross Katz
AnnieLee is on the run to Nashville, determined to make it big, stealing a truck on the way and willing to sleep rough. While she has talent, she also has a past, and it's one that determined to catch up to her. Ethan is a musician who sees her in a bar and can't forget …
Continue reading Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
I was so excited when I requested this book, and it did not disappoint. People are basically decent, and the world is not as bad as you think. That's essentially the premise of this book. But it's not a light, fluffy, motivational book, it's actually a well researched and absolutely fascinating read. I came to …
Continue reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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