Smith headlines Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest (Chicago) May 30, 2024—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has been named the recipient of Chicago’s 2024 Harold Washington Literary Award. She will accept this prestigious award on...
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Romance Writers of America filed for bankruptcy in Houston on Wednesday, May 31, 2024, citing declining membership and payment agreements with hotels to host its annual conference. According to the filing, RWA membership has declined from approximately 10,000 members...
If you are looking for a modern thriller full of heroes and villains, Born In A Storm is a wonderful choice. Following the now famous ‘Tick-Tack’ UFO incident, navy pilot, Lieutenant Mackenzie (Mack) James, encounters another UFO over the Pacific Ocean. Mack watched...
Shanghai, Joseph Kanon, Scribner – In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business.
When the Sea Came Alive, Garrett M. Graff, Avid Reader Press – From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day
The Return of Ellie Black, Emiko Jean, Simon & Schuster – It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls.
The Language of the Night, Ursula K. Le Guin, Scribner – Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.
The best biography of 2023 to be announced on May 17, 2024 at the 14th annual BIO Conference April 27, 2024; New York, NY– A distinguished panel of judges from the Biographers International Organization (BIO) is proud to announce the five books that have been...
The Crystalline Crucible Adam Rowan 2024 Book Review April 19, 2024 Take an eccentric man-child named Maxwell in a small English town, Rosie, a nursery school teacher who aspires to write children’s books, and Kahlil, a man on the run from a London gang, and what do...
