Category: Written
Author Flick Shares Secrets of Character Development
I Have Not Considered Consequences by Sherrie Flick, Autumn House Press – What do you get when you compress a short story to under 1,000 words?
Read More
Real Life Mystery Inspires The Story She Left Behind
The Story She Left Behind, Patti Callahan Henry, Atria – Inspired by an actual literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.
Read More
Maid befriended by Roosevelts Becomes Civil Rights Champion
Let Us March On, Shara Moon, William Morrow paperbacks – Lizzie McDuffie was a longtime nanny for a family in Atlanta and her husband, Mac, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s valet before he became president.
Read More
Palit Explores the Line Between Reality and Fiction
Sunshine and Spice, Aurora Palit, – During her time pursuing a master’s degree in English literature, Aurora was drawn to discourses on diaspora and identity, racism, and multi-generational immigrant experiences.
Read More
Eddie Winston Is Looking For Love by Marianne Cronin
Eddie Winston Is Looking For Love, Marianne Cronin, Harper Perennial – A funny, uplifting story about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places.
Read More
Friend’s Death Sends Psychiatrist on Road to Discovery
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Ecklund? by Anna Montague, ecco – Magda Ecklund’s best friend, Sara, has died and Magda is having a hard time coping.
Read More
O’Connor Explores Island Life in Whale Fall
Whale Fall, Elizabeth O’Connor, Pantheon – Elizabeth O’Connor’s beautifully stark debut novel Whale Fall is set on a remote Welsh Island in the fall of 1938.
Read More
Black Woman Finds Fame in Negro Baseball League
In A League of Her Own by Kaia Alderson, William Morrow – Effa Bush divorced her first husband because she didn’t want to be just someone’s wife. She wanted to BE somebody.
Read More
The President’s Lawyer, a real thriller
The President’s Lawyer, Lawrence Robbins, – Lawrence Robbins waited 72 years to write his first book, which is already a stared hit among thriller readers.
Read More
How does one find happiness? Ebenbach’s novel explores
Possible Happiness, David Ebenbach, Fitzroy Books/Regal House – In his tenth book, writer David Ebenbach turns his attention within in a very personal but fictionalized account of Eleventh-grader Jacob Wasserman
Read More
Teenager Makes Her Way on Texas Border Despite Family Curse
Malas, Marcela Fuentes, Viking – After a strange, old woman appears, tragedies mar Pilar’s life.
Read More
Who’d believe this famous girl’s dark side
The Most Famous Girl in the World, Inman Hariri-Kia, Source Books Landmark – It’s been two years since Rose―a first-generation Middle Eastern American, functional trainwreck, and reporter for online journal The Shred―wrote the investigative article that exposed Poppy as a socialite grifter.
Read More
