Effie has been deaf since birth, but her family never learned to sign, so there is little communication between them. […]
Reviews, Young Adult
You Can’t Take The Truth
Coming home can be the worst. Jasper is dreading it because she has made decisions about her life and people […]
Reviews, Special Interest
Book Nerd
Bibliophiles will find themselves overjoyed and saying, “That’s me! Yes, I do that?” or “Oh, that’s so true!” as they […]
Reviews, Sequential Art
Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Eddie Ahn’s riveting memoir about his family, his service to the nonprofit work, and his environmental justice was very interesting, […]
Blog
The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
About the book: You’ve always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made […]
Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Kalyna the Cutthroat
Radiant Basket of Rainbow Shells is a Loashti scholar living abroad in Quruscan to study. Radiant’s safe and comfortable existence […]
Reviews, Romance
Funny Story
Daphne’s life is upended when her fiancé dumps her for his lifelong best friend, Petra. With no place to stay […]
Mystery, Crime and Thriller, Reviews
Specimen
A rollercoaster ride of a story that readers will find exhilarating and heart-stopping. Towles is a genius at crafting a […]
Modern Literature, Reviews
Mysteries of Bowie and Other Oddities
Mysteries of Bowie and Other Oddities by Joseph Raffetto is a collection of stories that merge real characters and events […]
Horror, Reviews
Graveyard Shift: A Novella
M.L. Rio wrote one of my all-time favorite novels, If We Were Villains, so I had high expectations for Graveyard […]