Category: Reviews
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The Mountains Sing
An enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War.
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The Lion’s Den
Belle likes to think herself immune to the dizzying effects of fabulous wealth. But when her best friend, Summer, invites her on a glamorous getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend’s yacht, the only sensible answer is yes. Once she’s aboard the luxurious Lion’s Den, it soon becomes clear this jet-setting holiday is not…
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The Personal Librarian
A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation.
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Heart Berries
A powerful memoir of one Indian woman’s struggle with her past, her present, and her ghosts. Written as a letter to her husband, Terese Marie Mailhot grapples with her traumatic upbringing, mental illness, and shame.
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Once There Were Wolves
Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman…
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The Final Girl Support Group
A group of women who were final girls in the 80’s have attended group therapy together for the past 16 years. Suddenly, one of the final girls misses a meeting and the group is being targeted.
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Gilda, a 20-something, atheist, lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Gilda stumbles into an interview for a receptionist job at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
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Falling
You just boarded a flight to New York. There are 143 other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that 30 minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
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We Are the Brennans
Explores the staying power of shame―and the redemptive power of love―in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.
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A Very Punchable Face
From growing up in a family of firefighters on Staten Island to commuting three hours a day to high school, to attending Harvard while Facebook was created, to hosting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, Jost shares how he has navigated the world like a slightly smarter Forrest Gump.
