Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a l...
Dandelion is Dead
I finished Dandelion Is Dead by Rosie Storey feeling a little unsettled, a little sad and oddly comforted all at once. It’s one of those books that doesn’t shout for your attention but instead stays with you, quietly tapping you on the shoulder long after you’ve put it down. I......
Divine Ruin
In 2023, Margot Douaihy introduced crime fiction to an unforgettable new heroine in the form of a tatted-up, punk rock, cigarette-smoking, lesbian nun named Sister Holiday. Having spectacularly blown up her life in Brooklyn — her family, her girlfriend, her band — she’d fled to the only place ...
Bad Baby
Bad Baby is the first book of a thrilling new series by author Stephen Martin. It opens when the brothers John and Merlin Cooper were in their teens living in a farm in Florida when they receive the news about their father’s death. This happened in the year 2001, specifically,......
The Swan's Daughter
New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi (The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves, Aru Shah and The End of Time) makes her highly anticipated return to YA this year with The Swan’s Daughter, an endearing tale set within a fairytale world packed with magic and mayhem. A Fairytale Curse w...
The First Time I Saw Him
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave brings the reader on a journey of twist and turns as the main characters race across the globe to end the decades long threat to their safety. The first book in the series, The Last Thing He Told Me, hooked me......
The Architect of New York
The Architect of New York is a historical biography of a Spanish immigrant, Rafael Guastavino Moreno Sr., a historical figure who introduced the Catalan tile vault system to the USA in the 1880s. The book is crafted by prize-winning author Javier Moro, who recounts the story from the perspective of....
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist is a must read for theater lovers, historians, performers and aspiring artists alike. The author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner explores his subject’s passion, drive, collaborative nature and the creative evolution of his many projects; his unlikely journey f...
The Secret Christmas Library
It’s no secret that this reviewer thoroughly enjoys the work of New York Times best-selling, prolific author and gifted storyteller Jenny Colgan, despite professing an aversion to romances. In addition to charmingly cozy novels, she has also written several scripts for television, children’s boo...