When Guinevere is promoting her new memoir about her mother, Edith Sharpe, who wrote a huge bestseller book series called the Ninth City, she finds out her estranged brother Ennis, a controversial artist, has a new exhibition coming up called Mother. Their mother's books were about two children that were based on them, making them …
The story of a boy whose mother is an actress trying to make a comeback, after a series of crappy relationships and her most famous films are starting to fade into history. In the past, she's shunted her son off to his Grandparents in Ohio to be raised when things get difficult, so he really …
Continue reading There Must Be A Pony (1971) by James Kirkwood
Translated by Laurel Taylor. Yuko is an ordinary, happy little girl, though she was raised in an unusual way, with a succession of foster parents, all of whom loved her very much. The book follows a year in her life, as she reaches her last year of high school, and faces moving out into the …
Curtis Paul was in a death metal band 15 years ago that was successful and made some waves, but now he's living the suburban dream, with his wife and kids. When he meets up with his old manager, he realises he misses the life on stage, and the band gets back together, but can he …
Continue reading Death Metal Duck by Justin Heggs and Cam Hayden (graphic novel)
A man's body is found behind a corner store, his heart cut out and the smell of perfume in the air, leading locals to think the killer is a woman, or maybe, if the rumors of hoofprints at the scene are true, something supernatural. Meanwhile, seven year old Layla is growing up, longing for a …
On the way home from a gay club they got into with fake IDs, Colin and best friend Ren have to take a detour to avoid the local jocks, and they come across a weird, white thicket they've never seen before that has a strange effect on Ren. Soon he's acting different and hinting at …
Orri, the 19 year old son of a farmer in Iceland, decides to take a break from his University course, and returns home to his parents farm. Over the course of the year, he finds direction through his sense of capability as he helps his father farming, through his friendship with a local farmers daughter, …
When Andy Correns's mother died, he wrote a no-holds-barred, painfully honest obituary for her, which really struck readers, and ended up going viral, reaching people all over the world and getting strong reactions, both positive and negative. Thus, this memoir was born, a memoir of his mother, both a celebration and a denigration, and the …
Set during WWII, this is the story of a child being sent to America to escape the bombing in London, and how that choice impacts the lives of two families forever. 11 year old Beatrix is sent by boat to Boston in 1940, where she stays with the Gregorys, going from her working class parents …
Willa has been friends with Britton and Luz for years and they're inseparable. Until Willa does something that betrays their friendship. Now she has one week to think about what she did and to see if she can make it up to them, as the story spools back to tell us where it all started …
