THE OSAGE MURDERS AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI by David Grann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2017 Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. Likes 58 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews’Best Books Of 2017 New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Finalist Greed, depravity, […]
by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020 Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a […]
In this third edition of a work originally published in 1991, Hooker shares the pictures of Navajo photographer Helen Lau Running and adds extensive interviews and commentary of her own to a text in which the Diné people talk about their traditional ways of life (the interviewees would often demonstrate time-honored Navajo techniques for Hooker, […]
by Louis Sachar ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1998 Good Guys and Bad get just deserts in the end, and Stanley gets plenty of opportunities to display pluck and valor in this… Sentenced to a brutal juvenile detention camp for a crime he didn’t commit, a wimpy teenager turns four generations of bad family luck […]
From the Powerless Trilogy series , Vol. 1 by Lauren Roberts ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 7, 2023 A lackluster and sometimes disturbing mishmash of overused tropes. The Plague has left a population divided between Elites and Ordinaries—those who have powers and those who don’t; now, an Ordinary teen fights for her life. Paedyn Gray witnessed […]
by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020 Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a […]
The author grew up listening to his storytelling grandfather, who was a great source of wisdom. “There was always a sense of purpose with his stories,” recalls Banh, “that they must be kept preserved, leaves pressed between pages, to hold together the promise of the cycle of life.” Little did he know at the time […]
THE OSAGE MURDERS AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI by David Grann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2017 Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. Likes 58 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews’Best Books Of 2017 New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Finalist Greed, depravity, […]
by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020 Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a […]
Aaron Merry is a SoCal native whose mom’s sudden abandonment of the family left him cynical about love. When his Christmas-obsessed older brother, Casey, suffers a brutal breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Aaron agrees to accompany him on a last-minute, 12-day trip to Winter Wonderland, an island off Alaska with a year-round Christmas theme. Meanwhile, […]