November 1, 2020 5:25 pm
By Cynthianna Matthews
Review: Leif and the Fall, Allison and Adam Grant, Dial Books - Every leaf must fall come the autumn, but Leif is different. He's a leaf who is afraid of falling from his tree.
October 7, 2020 10:27 am
By Cynthianna Matthews
Review: Girl Gone Mad, Avery Bishop, Lake Union - Fourteen years ago, Emily Bennett belonged to a middle school girl gang known as the Harpies. Bullying and frequently vicious, the Harpies were detested by teachers and pupils alike.
October 7, 2020 10:09 am
By Kate Padilla
In 60 Stories About 30 Seconds, Bruce Van Dusen, Post Hill Press - The richness of Bruce Van Dusen’s book, “In 60 Stories About 30 Seconds,” springs from his perspective of key events that dramatically changed the production of television commercials during his forty-five years as a TV ad director and producer.
September 28, 2020 10:54 am
By Cynthianna Matthews
Review: The Unspoken, Ian K. Smith, Thomas & Mercer - Former Chicago PD Detective Ashe Cayne’s strong sense of justice cost him his job when he refused to take part in a cover-up.
September 26, 2020 10:42 am
By Kate Padilla
Make Them Cry, Smith Henderson & Jon Marc Smith, Harper Collins - Can private military contractors hired by the United States to stabilize violence in Afghanistan by taking over the country's heroin traffic use the same tactics with Mexican drug cartels?
September 26, 2020 10:26 am
By Kate Padilla
Millicent Glenn's Last Wish, Tori Whitaker, Lake Union Publishing - Tori Whitaker’s “Glenn’s Last Wish,” fails to excite, with what turns out to be a tedious plot line. If that’s not enough, toss in Roe vs Wade, and add religious overtones.
September 16, 2020 8:14 am
By Cynthianna Matthews
We are all the Same in the Dark, Julia Heaberlin, Ballantine Books - Trumanell Branson was a Texas town’s homecoming queen, a beyond-beautiful local heroine who overcame a deeply troubled home life to win the respect of her neighbors.
September 16, 2020 8:01 am
By Kate Padilla
The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel, Gallery Books - Eva Traube Abrams, a university student living in Paris, refuses to believe a warning from a fellow student, who, like herself, wears a yellow star.
September 12, 2020 5:35 pm
By Cynthianna Matthews
For the Best, Vanessa Lillie, Thomas & Mercer - Juliet Worthington-Smith, CEO of the Poe Foundation of Rhode Island, wakes with a blistering hangover one summer morning to find the police at her door.
July 16, 2020 1:51 pm
By Doris Booth
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