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This week the international thrills of Radiant Angel will transport you to a hostile, resurgent Russia while The Underwriting pits the power of Wall Street against the savvy of Silicon Valley. Interested in something with a little more science? Check out J.T. Ellison’s new release What Lies Behind, a shocking medical thriller....
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Interested in the mingling of cultures? Pick up Carlos Fraenkel’s Teaching Plato in Palestine, a deeply intelligent travelogue with hints of philosophy and politics. Looking for a laugh? Pick up Mamrie Hart’s You Deserve a Drink, the popular youtuber’s crazy collection of cocktails and crazy stories. Sign up for our...
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From the sweet sweet romance of Jennifer Probst’s new Searching for Beautiful, to the suspenseful Fatal Flaw by Marie Force, there is something new to satisfy all romance readers this week! Sign up for our email and we’ll send you the best new books in your favorite genres weekly.
Getting plenty of buzz this week (including an interview with NPR) is Sarai Walker’s Dietland, a look into the stigmas and pressures that women, in the protagonist’s case, fat women, face in American society. Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the renowned The Windup Girl, has a new book this week: The Water Knife. Get...
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For stories of teens wild, in love, and making their way through the world check out Nowhere But Here and Emancipated. For a little extra drama in your romance, pick up Tiny Pretty Things, Tenderness of Thieves or PS I Still Love You (Or all three!) Sign up for...
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This week in business: My Side of Wall Street humanizes Wall Street and the investment banking business in a way rarely seen since the Occupy Movement. Hubris by Meghnad Desai proves that hindsight is 20/20, and seeks to learn from past economic mistakes. If you’re feeling trepidatious about Big Brother, pick up...
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Fellow readers, Kazuo Ishiguro has done it again. The Buried Giant is his first book in a decade, and its sweeping narrative is guaranteed to enchant. He brings the same literary mind that crafted Never Let Me Go into the genre of magical realism, using familiar tropes to synthesize a...
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will begin this review with the unapologetic and unabashed admission that I am a die-hard Neil Gaiman fan. I cannot imagine a world in which I do not enjoy every word that Neil Gaiman has written. Gaiman, as the author of everything from children’s books to horror to graphic novels,...
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Here's the new Fantasy Books for April, 7 2015