Category: Book Reviews
Review: Quicksilver by Dean Koontz
Quicksilver, Dean Koontz, Thomas & Mercer – Before reading Dean Koontz’s new fantasy crime novel, “Quicksilver,” be prepared to suspend reality and embrace characters with superpowers.
Read More
Review: The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myer
Review: The Tobacco Wives, Adele Myer, William Morrow – Fifteen year old Maddie Sykes is taken by her war-widow mother to the town of Bright Leaf, NC, where she’s thrust into the care of her Aunt Etta.
Read More
The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipmam
The Secret of Snow, Viola Shipmam (Pen name for Wade Rouse), Graydon House – “The Secret of Snow,” written by Wade Rouse under the pen name of Viola Shipman, is a melodramatic tale that aims at three key emotional targets: feminism, grief, and love.
Read More
Review: Finding the Right Words by Weinstein & Miller, MD
Review: Finding the Right Words, Cindy Weinstein & Bruce L. Miller, MD,. Johns Hopkins University Press – When my local pharmacy offered a brain health test, I cringed, afraid the results could land me amongst six million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a 2021study by the Alzheimer’s Association.
Read More
Review: Poison for Breakfast
Poison for Breakfast, Lemony Snicket, Liveright Publishing – Lemony Snicket, best known as a fictional character and narrator of Daniel Handler’s children’s novels, appears as the main character in the extraordinary all-ages, non-fiction “Poison for Breakfast.”
Read More
Review: Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons
Constance, Matthew FitzSimmons, Thomas & Mercer – The protagonist in Matthew FitzSimmons’s futurist novel, “Constance,” has no memory of the eighteen months prior to her death, and then, awakening as a clone.
Read More
Review: The Apology Project by Jeanette Escudero
The Apology Project, Jeanette Escudero, Lake Union – Amelia Montgomery is a high-flying litigator with a prominent Chicago law firm.
Read More
Review: Safe in My Arms by Sara Shepard
Safe in My Arms, Sara Shepard, Dutton – Silver Swans Nursery Academy is the place for Raisin Beach parents to enroll their kids.
Read More
Review: Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan
Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan, Graydon House – Not everyone gets to have two second starts in life. Jackie Pierce, nicknamed Lady Sunshine by her music icon uncle, is granted a summer break when she is 17.
Read More
Review: Wolf Point by Ian K. Smith
Review: Wolf Point, Ian K. Smith, Thomas & Mercer – Chicago: From the mean and violent streets of Englewood to the glittering downtown Loop, hardened PI Ashe Cayne has seen it all.
Read More
- 1
- ...
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- 76
- 77
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- 87
- 88
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- 104
- 105
- 106
- 107
- ...
- 108
