THESE WOMEN by Ivy Pochoda: Unseen, forgotten women find their voices
These Women immerses the reader in South Los Angeles in 2014, in a neighborhood with an abundance of sex workers but also families who wish
DAUGHTER OF THE REICH by Louise Fein: An Aryan Teenager Confronts Her Beliefs in This New Release
Happy Publication Day to Daugther of the Reich! Growing up in a Nazi household with a father holding a high rank in the SS, Hetty
THE RESOLUTIONS by Brady Hammes – Three Siblings with Imploding Lives Reunite for the Holidays
The Brennan siblings—Gavin, Jonah, and Samantha—boast impressive resumes. Gavin, living in Los Angeles, stars in a television show, Sam, a talented dancer, is a featured
WAITING FOR EDEN by Elliot Ackerman: A Lasting Novel
Last year, I read Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman, and this beautiful but devastating novel has stayed with me since. Narrated by Eden’s friend,
THE DOWN DAYS by Ilze Hugo: A City under Quarantine
Happy Publication Day! Seven years ago, the Laughing sickness appeared in Sick Town. Basically abandoned, with no outside governments or organizations appearing to provide possible
Tori Amos’s RESISTANCE
I remember listening to Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes in college on repeat. My friends and I were floored by the raw emotion and beauty in
TAKE ME APART by Sara Sligar
Happy Publication Day! At the height of her popularity, famed feminist photographer Miranda Brand dies of an apparent suicide at her home in Callinas, California,
In an unnamed African country, five young people live on the margins of society using an abandoned airplane as shelter. Elimane, the oldest at twenty,
Book Mail is the Best Mail
Most book lovers get a thrill from receiving books in the mail, from a monthly Book of the Month subscription to ARCs from publishers or
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE BURQUA: A Chorus of Muslim Women
Muslim women are often depicted as a monolithic entity, passive and victimized by a religion steeped in patriarchy. Editor Mariam Khan has assembled seventeen essays
LITTLE SECRETS by Jennifer Hillier: A Mother’s Revenge
Sixteen months ago, Marin Machado was shopping for Christmas presents at the crowded Pike Place Market with her four-year-old son Sebastian. She briefly dropped his
THE PRIZED GIRL by Amy K. Green
When Jenny, a teen beauty pageant winner, is brutally raped and murdered, no one in her small Massachusetts town can believe the violence, and the
CONJURE WOMEN by Afia Atakora
Happy Publication Day to Conjure Women! Conjure Women straddles the liminal period between slavery and freedom as three women, Miss Mae Belle, her daughter, Rue,
AFTERLIFE by Julia Alvarez
Antonia Vega, a retired English professor, still hasn’t adjusted to widowhood a year after her husband, Sam’s, death. She’s slowly withdrawn from her sisters, her
The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel
Happy Publication Day! Eve grew up in the holler with her older brother Cal, near feral, with an abusive, drug-addicted mother who was known through