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edited by Lauren Groff with Heidi Pitlor ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 22, 2024 All hits and no skips is a tall order, but this strong, solid compilation is well worth a short story lover’s time. Pitlor ushers in her final installment as series editor of this long-running staple showcasing the year in short fiction. Of […]
Drawing on considerable archival sources, journalist Gorton creates an informative history of the fight for women’s reproductive rights in her dual biography of activists Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) and Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947). Dennett came to the cause from her personal experience of accidental pregnancies and birth trauma; Sanger, from work as a visiting nurse among […]
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 56 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews’Best Books Of 2017 New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Finalist Greed, depravity, […]
by Liane Moriarty ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 10, 2024 A fresh, funny, ambitious, and nuanced take on some of our oldest existential questions. Cannot wait for the TV series. Likes 13 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller What would you do if you knew when you were going to die? In the first […]
by Gregory R. Lange ; illustrated by Sydney Hanson ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2019 New parents of daughters will eat these up and perhaps pass on the lessons learned. All the reasons why a daughter needs a mother. Each spread features an adorable cartoon animal parent-child pair on the recto opposite a rhyming verse: […]
by Colleen Hoover ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 2, 2016 Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the strength of… Likes 527 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Hoover’s (November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional […]
by Max Brooks ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2020 A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Likes 224 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on […]
Little received his first camera from his father when he was 9 years old. With that serendipitous gift, he embarked on an impressive career as a photojournalist that spanned 40 years. He largely worked for Time, Incorporated and was given the opportunity to photograph everything and everyone—Cary Grant, the Rolling Stones, presidents, and Playboy bunnies. […]
A bit overcooked, but of interest to readers of Western Americana. Parallel lives of Roy Bean, the self-styled “law west of the Pecos,” and his three very different brothers. Born in Kentucky, the Bean brothers—James, Samuel, Joshua, and Roy—were living emblems of westward expansion. All possessed, to varying degrees, something of the rule-evading, even lawless […]
by Ginny Rorby ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2015 Dolphin lovers will appreciate this look at our complicated relationship with these marine mammals. Is dolphin-assisted therapy so beneficial to patients that it’s worth keeping a wild dolphin captive? Twelve-year-old Lily has lived with her emotionally distant oncologist stepfather and a succession of nannies since her […]