The Lying King, Alex Beard, Greenleaf Book Group – This thin and nicely illustrated volume looks like a children’s book, but the tale inside “The Lying King” offers a timely and uncanny resemblance to our current adult times.
Kate Padilla
Kate Padilla is an author, poet and artist. Her book, Apples Rot on the Ground (May 2020), is a collection of gut-wrenching poems detailing the racism and bigotry that existed for Hispanic families in early New Mexico & Wyoming.
All This I Will Give To You by Dolores Redondo
All This I Will Give To You, Dolores Redondo, Amazon Crossing – The crime occurs in Galicia, Spain, where even in the 20th century, aristocratic families expect to be recognized as nobility and granted extraordinary privileges.
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
The Masterpiece, Fiona Davis – Fiona Davis’ “The Masterpiece” is a light, romantic historical novel about the journey of two women, fifty years apart in age, who discover self-achievement as their lives collide when New York’s Grand Central Terminal was facing demolition.
Bandwidth by Eliot Peper
Bandwidth, Eliot Peper, 47 North – Eerily, Eliot Peper’s futuristic-thriller, Bandwidth, mirrors today’s reality with computer hackers manipulating voters, government policies made via Twitter and world leaders confronting climate change.
Elmore Leonard: Westerns Edited by Terrence Rafferty
Elmore Leonard: Westerns, Terrence Rafferty Editor, Library of America – Generation X folks more likely recognize Elmore Leonard as a pulp-fiction crime novelist and screenwriter focused on the “mob” and Mexican drug cartels, but his early writing zeroed in on America’s “wild west.”
Reconstruction edited by Brooks D. Simpson
Reconstruction, edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Library of America – The Library of America’s new release, “Reconstruction,” richly details promise and betrayal during the turbulent post-Civil War era in the United States and invokes a deep sense of melancholia.
Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
Olivia Twist, Lorie Langdon – Lorie Langdon’s new young adult book, “Olivia Twist,” remakes Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist” and serves up a pleasurable read with countless thrills.
Winter Sister by Robin Oliveria
Winter Sisters, Robin Oliveira, Random House – Robin Oliveira’s haunting thriller, “Winter Sisters,” loosely based on a 19th-century historic snowstorm that buried Albany, New York, also shines light on early 20th-Century age-of-consent and sexual-assault laws.
Limelight by Amy Poeppel
Book Review: Limelight, Amy Poeppel, Atria Books – Allison Brinkley, who has just moved from Dallas to New York City, gets a dose of big-city driving when she crashes into an unoccupied BMW while retrieving her child at school.
Book Review: It’s My Party by Jeanette Watson
It’s My Party, Jeanette Watson, Turtle Point Press – Jeanette Watson’s memoir, “It’s My Party,” will make your eyes glaze. Alas, it’s like a bad party encounter, when somebody rambles on about riches and “famous” people his or her family has wined and dined.
