Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros: A Dragon-Fire Fantasy of Survival, Power, and Desire
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros: A Dragon-Fire Fantasy of Survival, Power, and Desire Released by Entangled: Red Tower Books on May 2, 2023, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros opens the Empyrean series with a brutal reversal of expectation: Violet Sorrengail, trained for the scholarly safety of the Scribe Quadrant, is ordered into an elite war […]
Spare by Prince Harry: A Personal Memoir of Grief, Royal Duty, and Self-Definition
Spare by Prince Harry: A Personal Memoir of Grief, Royal Duty, and Self-Definition Published globally on January 10, 2023, Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, places a first-person voice at the center of a life that has long been interpreted in public: a royal childhood, a mother’s death, military service, marriage, fatherhood and […]
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: A Brilliant Novel of Science, Sexism, and Defiance
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: A Brilliant Novel of Science, Sexism, and Defiance Published by Doubleday on April 5, 2022, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus introduces Elizabeth Zott, a research chemist in early-1960s California whose intelligence is unmistakable to the reader and persistently inconvenient to the men around her. Elizabeth is not interested […]
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: A Moving Novel of Regret, Hope, and Second Chances
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: A Moving Novel of Regret, Hope, and Second Chances Published in the United States on September 29, 2020, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig converts one of the most private human questions into an imaginative literary premise: what if the lives lost to regret were not gone, but shelved […]
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides: A Psychological Thriller Built Around Silence
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides: A Psychological Thriller Built Around Silence Published by Celadon Books on February 5, 2019, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides opens with a crime so stark that it seems to explain itself: Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband and thereafter refuses to speak a single word. Yet […]
Becoming by Michelle Obama: An Intimate Memoir of Identity, Family, and Public Life
Becoming by Michelle Obama: An Intimate Memoir of Identity, Family, and Public Life Published globally on November 13, 2018, Becoming by Michelle Obama moves beyond the public portrait of a former First Lady to reveal the inner formation of a woman: daughter, student, lawyer, partner, mother, advocate and witness to history. From Chicago’s South Side […]
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens: A Haunting Novel of Survival, Solitude, and Suspicion
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens: A Haunting Novel of Survival, Solitude, and Suspicion Originally published on August 14, 2018, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens carries readers into the tidal marshes of North Carolina, where a girl abandoned by family learns to read the natural world long before the human world makes […]
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover: A Novel of Love, Survival, and Breaking Cycles
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover: A Novel of Love, Survival, and Breaking Cycles Published by Atria Books on August 2, 2016, It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover introduces Lily Bloom, a young woman building a new life in Boston while carrying the private lessons of a childhood shaped by fear, loyalty and […]
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Fame, Love, and the Cost of a Hidden Truth
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Fame, Love, and the Cost of a Hidden Truth Released on June 13, 2017, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid draws back the velvet curtain on a fictional Hollywood legend whose beauty, marriages and scandals have long concealed the only story […]