Imagine you are enjoying a relaxing vacation on board a luxurious cruise ship. You look across the pool and notice four sixty-year-old...

In anticipation of authors Megan Crane and Nicole Helm’s visit this week, I read their new book, the first in their Witchlore series,...

Lucy by the Sea is the latest offering from one of my favorite authors, Elizabeth Strout. It is the fourth novel in her Amgash series,...

Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus is a young adult novel about buried secrets that refuse to stay buried. Four years ago Brynn...

When Holland America’s cruise ship Zaandam set sail from Buenos Aires, it was loaded with 1200 passengers and 600 crew members. Everyone...

I found this book fascinating as it addressed the topic of generational trauma, a concept that I have only heard about in the past few...

Nora supports her family by writing Hallmark movie-like screenplays. After her husband leaves Nora with their two young children, Nora...

A reimagining of H.G. Wells’, “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, this story, set in the mid-19th century, takes the viewpoint of the doctor’s...

What value does life have if you can leave no mark? This is the question Addie LaRue faces after making a desperate deal to live forever....

Nina and Leo may work together on the set of a popular cooking competition show but their charm is decidedly OFF behind the scenes. When...

I have always loved Geraldine Brooks' historical fiction so I was very excited to to grab her latest work, Horse. It was well worth the...

Ever since Blake Crouch’s book Dark Matter was published in 2016, he has been on my “authors to read” list. For some reason, I never got...

Florence Day is a romance ghostwriter running from her past in New York City. When her father dies suddenly, Florence is forced to return...

Hannah Jones meets April Clarke-Cliveden during their freshman year at Oxford University. They have a group of close friends - Will,...

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are on their own. Their father is dead and their mother is living in a halfway house. After Marcus’s pipe...

Until I read Pip William’s novel, “The Dictionary of Lost Words”, I hadn’t questioned how the first dictionaries were compiled. I...

Elizabeth Zott is an accomplished chemist working at the Hastings Institute during the 1960s. Her male colleagues do not respect her, and...

We often learn history along a timeline: the Battle of Hastings, 1066; the Lewis and Clark expedition, 1804; the first person on the...

If you’re looking for a novel that is short and sweet, please try Love & Saffron by Kim Fay. This book was published in February of 2022,...

This historical novel was inspired by the author’s grandmother, who had worked at an institution for mentally disabled women in the...