Using as a focal point the chilling story of offshoot Mormon fundamentalist brothers who commit a brutal murder in the name of God, Krakauer takes us back and forth in history to understand what led to this crime. Exemplary writing!
Read MoreIt should go without saying that Canada has an amazing array of authors residing and creating within our beautiful borders. For this crib notes I focused in on recent fictional releases that you may have missed!
Read MoreIn the last pages of this book, a Muslim woman asks the convicted school shooter who killed some of her students and held her captive, “How did we get here?”. Only by reading this powerful novel might you begin to understand what the answer to that may be..
Read MoreAn author who can create entire worlds out of nothing more than words and enthrall the reader such that they never want to leave…that’s talent only held by few. Roth has further cemented her place in this literary echelon with her latest book.
Read MoreIt’s not often you encounter a book where a killer for hire is the prime suspect in a case she’s been asked to help solve. And that killer, she’s a woman. And that woman, she’s a tough talking, hard drinking smartass with a lot of ways to kill people in her repertoire.
Read MoreIf you have yet to brave the works of this author let me give you something to ponder. Kindness, hope and grace can be found in the most harrowing of places. King will lead to into the darkness and then give you the heart to defy it.
Read MoreTo write is too bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. The profound is everywhere and in everyone if only we listen for it!
Read MoreIn the final pages of this novel, as the original maker of the Hunger Games asks himself of his prank proposal, “Who but the vilest monster would stage it?”, its understood that you have just spent several hours keeping company with that individual.
Read MoreThis book centers on a woman in her mid-thirties who struggles with puzzlement at the demeanour of the people around her. Somehow she must navigate the narrow social slots people, particularly women, are expected to occupy.
Read MoreHas the reading world been gifted with a new darkly comic writing genius? Unafraid to dish up violence and psychopathy with eerie nonchalance? I for one really hope so!
Read MoreTo a stranger glancing from the outside, the cover photo of this book might suggest a family brimming with the picturesque and idyllic, but that was as far removed from the truth as you can imagine. A tale of a family keeping secrets, from themselves as much as others.
Read MoreTouted as a mash-up of Fried Green Tomatoes and Dracula, this book exudes Southern charm even as it dishes out thrills and chills enough to satisfy the appetite of any horror aficionado.
Read MoreThe book’s examination of the way people will acquiesce to more and more social change until the system becomes something unrecognizable is at the heart of this novel. Told from the perspective of a great character, it never preaches at the reader.
Read MoreThomas has a confession to make…and you the reader are going to want to stick around to hear it. You will be equally unsettled and absorbed by the end of the first page. And that’s only the beginning!
Read MoreReads with action this cinematic, elaborate and meticulous are few and far between and I highly recommend the pure escapism it offers. Think John Wick meets Jack Bauer, with John Krasinski starring in the movie version.
Read MoreOur main character is a brilliant, beautiful, damaged and destructive woman whose chaotic life is controlled and manipulated by several alternate personalities. The collision of these personalities is by far the most well-done part of this book, but in the end, it was near impossible to connect to any of them.
Read MoreSamantha Irby is a black lady with a white wife living in a red state. She is a self-described middle-aged depressed lady with chronic diarrhea and a snarky voice. That is a lot of fodder for saucy and hilarious musings on the mundanities of life.
Read MoreThese books are not breakneck speed page turners which is a wonderful change of pace in our recent release offerings. They never feel like a by the number’s thriller. The twists and revelations work all the better for being worked for, rather than flung at the reader, two to a page.
Read MoreA man with a mysterious past finds himself caught up in the case of a missing teenage girl. In the pursuit of the truth in that matter, secrets upon secrets are uncovered. Political ones, marital ones, parental ones…you get my drift.
Read MoreWriters, cultural icons and artists showcase their love of books in this gorgeous compilation of letters to readers. That love is poignantly depicted in both the stories and the stunning art pieces that accompany them.
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