Virginie Despentes, former sex worker, film director, queer icon, delivers her comment on modern-day Paris in three volumes to varying success. Set just before the Bataclan terrorist attack of 2015, we follow Vernon Subutex, once a fiercely rocking independent record shop [...]
In this disturbing cozy mystery style novel from one of New England's finest writers, it is hard to know if this work is intentionally meta or whether Moshfegh caught herself in the net she weaves here. Let's get this straight. I [...]
Thea Verdak unleashes a swirling storm of a story in The Curs of Curzon County, a rapid-fire tale of acute dangers and chronic pain, growing up and leaving home, and all the obstacles along the way that can derail a young [...]
In Was Michael Jackson Murdered? You Be the Judge, the author of this absorbing, real-life murder mystery examines in detail the final hours of the life of Michael Jackson, to help readers discern what might have been the cause of the [...]
A small group of people thrown together by fate find themselves in possession of a huge fortune and must face the perils of its discovery in the thrilling Ferdinand’s Gold by Sheldon Charles. On the island protectorate of Guam, Dex Kevan [...]
Steeped in court drama, forbidden love, and the tension of dark history, The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives is the swirling, beautifully penned new novel from Tim Darcy Ellis. Based largely on true events and figures, this intense tale shines [...]
Professor and scientist Chandana Watagodakumbura examines the complex relationship between brain structure, neurological functioning, and how people behave based on their learning in Programming the Brain: Educational Neuroscience Perspective: Pedagogical Practices and Study Skills for Enhanced Learning and Metacognition. As Watagodakumbura [...]
Gabriel Thorn continues to thrill and challenge every stale paradigm of a sci-fi hero in Seraph, Book 3 of the Voidstalker series by John Graham. Following the first two breathless installments of this series, readers have grown accustomed to the boundaries [...]
Musings and delightful vignettes, served with a healthy dose of humor, form the basis for The Cat That Ate a Thousand Bananas: Musings of a Nerd by Hank Mancini. Without a doubt, Mancini’s title immediately draws in the reader, though the [...]
The puzzling discovery of an abandoned and mysteriously destroyed ship launches a deadly race for power in Engage at Dawn: First Contact by Edward M. Hochsmann. Primarily set onboard a Coast Guard Cutter, readers are immersed as a maritime crew come [...]