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Mentioned in the Media November & December 2025 |
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Crooks
by Lou Berney
For Buddy, a low-level mob wise guy, and Lillian, a charming pickpocket, the criminal underworld is the only life they've ever known. When they're forced to flee the glittering Babylon of Las Vegas, they end up opening a club in Oklahoma City--a town that quickly feels like a gold mine of fresh marks and easy new money. Along for the ride are their five children, all of them raised into the family business of crime--until the day comes when they each have a chance to make their own way in the world, even if they can never completely escape the family's long, dark shadow.
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Tantrum
by Rachel Eve Moulton
After giving birth to Lucia, a ravenous, unsettling baby with a devilish glint, Thea struggles with growing dread, resurfacing childhood trauma, and the terrifying possibility that her daughter's monstrous hunger could consume the world around her.
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Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor's Scandalous Secret Diaries
by Jeremy B. Jones
In this searching account, memoirist Jones delves into the salacious diaries of his 19th-century ancestor, a white Southern farmer named William Thomas Prestwood, and attempts to piece together Prestwood's life while comparing it with his own.
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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
by Beth Macy
The author, who grew up poor in Urbana, Ohio, in the 70s and 80s, faces the darkness in her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she sometimes struggles to like, and in facing the truth finds sparks of human dignity. Illustrations.
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Bad Bad Girl
by Gish Jen
Spanning continents and generations, traces the turbulent bond between a brilliant Chinese immigrant mother and her headstrong American daughter, as they navigate a lifetime of love, ambition and aching misunderstanding.
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A Guardian and a Thief
by Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata, India, which has been ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.
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The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
by Harper Lee
Spanning her early short stories and later nonfiction, this collection reveals the iconic author's evolving voice and sharp insights into childhood, creativity, justice and Southern identity, offering a fuller portrait beyond her two landmark novels.
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Cinder House
by Freya Marske
Ella is a haunting. Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters. Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died. Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom.
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Cursed Daughters
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Three generations of women must contend with their family curse and the question of reincarnation.
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The Eleventh Hour
by Salman Rushdie
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work--India, England, and America--and feature an unforgettable cast of characters.
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Ladies in Hating
by Alexandra Vasti
Authoress Lady Georgiana Cleeve has achieved not only fame and fortune, but also an enemy -- author Lady Darling -- so when Georgiana tries to unmask her rival, she finds that it is none other than Cat Lacey, the butler's daughter and object of Georgiana's very secret, very embarrassing teenage infatuation.
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Palaver
by Bryan Washington
The story of a mother and a son, estranged for ten years, reconnecting in the son's chosen city of Tokyo in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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Tom's Crossing: A Western
by Mark Z. Danielewski
In the fall of 1982, the Utah town of Orvop witnessed not just shocking crimes but an astonishing adventure beyond its borders, where the dead rose, a mountain fell, and a staggering act of courage forever marked the Katanogos massif and Pillars Meadow in legend.
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The American Revolution: An Intimate History
by Geoffrey C. Ward
Award-winning Ward and Burns have created a richly illustrated companion book for the PBS historical documentary series about the American Revolution that will air in November 2025
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Foudning
by Joseph J. Ellis
Explores the contradictions at the founding of the United States, focusing on the coexistence of slavery and Native American displacement with ideals of freedom, and analyzes the debates and compromises of the Revolutionary generation that shaped early national policies and attitudes.
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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
by Claire-Louise Bennett
Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she’s loved or wanted. The ephemera left by their passage--a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss--make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy.
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All That We See or Seem
by Ken Liu
"Orphan hacker" Julia Z is pulled from digital obscurity when a lawyer's artist wife, a dream-weaving oneirofex kidnapped by criminals, is needed for her unique skills to retrieve stolen dreams from a dangerous virtual underworld.
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Daddy Issues
by Kate Goldbeck
A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a single dad becomes her new neighbor and unexpectedly sets her life—and her heart—into motion in this modern love story.
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Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, private eye Hicks McTaggart searches for a Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, but he's shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner to Hungary; before he finds her he will be entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal and outlaw motorcyclists.
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The White Hot
by Quiara Alegrâia Hudes
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in a locked bathroom. That is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls the white hot, a voice inside her tells her to just walk away. She wanders to a bus station and asks for a one-way ticket to the furthest destination. That ticket takes her from her Philly home to the threshold of a wilderness and the beginning of a nameless quest - an accidental journey that shakes her awake, almost kills her, and brings her to the brink of an impossible choice.
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Finding My Way: A Memoir
by Malala Yousafzai
Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, the author quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience.
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Vagabond: A Memoir
by Tim Curry
"A celebration of Tim Curry's life's work -- including the iconic Dr. Frank-N-Further in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- and a testament to his profound impact on the entertainment industry as we know it today.
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The Devil Is a Southpaw
by Brandon Hobson
Haunted by jealousy and past trauma, Milton Muleborn recounts his volatile friendship with gifted Cherokee artist Matthew Echota, blending dark humor, unreliable memory, and surreal reflections on their shared time in a brutal juvenile detention center and the enduring scars it left behind.
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The Devil She Knows
by Alexandria Bellefleur
Down-on-her-luck Samantha Cooper makes a deal with a crafty demon to win back her ex-girlfriend after a proposal gone awry, only to discover the girl of her dreams might be the devil she knows.
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Girl Dinner
by Olivie Blake
After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey. Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University....As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs.
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The Everlasting
by Alix E. Harrow
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion's greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children's books and recruiting posters--but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory--failed soldier, struggling scholar--falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives--and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
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The White Octopus Hotel
by Alex Bell
Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if, behind the many doors, a second chance awaits.
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Heart Life Music
by Kenny Chesney
Shares the stories of a kid from small town East Tennessee with a dream fueled by the sports and music around him. When high school football came to an end, he knew there must be something more. In college, Kenny Chesney found himself on a barstool with a guitar and an unexpected connection between people, life, and songs. His heart caught fire. With Nashville’s vibrant creative scene, characters, legends, and places now long gone from the city he encountered in those early days, Chesney explores the quest to find himself as an artist and a man.
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Joyride: A Memoir
by Susan Orlean
This vibrant memoir tracing a celebrated writer's creative journey blends personal stories with reflections on curiosity, discovery and the writing life while offering inspiration and practical insights for anyone pursuing a path shaped by wonder and imagination.
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King Sorrow
by Joe Hill
Blackmailed into stealing rare books, Arthur's friends summon a dragon to save him, only to strike a deadly bargain that binds them to a terrifying choice: offer a yearly sacrifice or face King Sorrow's wrath themselves.
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We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir
by Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theater career, difficult childhood, and path to sobriety in his honest, moving, and long-awaited memoir.
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Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story
by Wendell Berry
Andy Catlett tells the inspiring story of his grandfather Marce Catlett to his own children and grandchildren, and gives them a key to their place on the questionably settled land they all love.
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The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance
by Bernd Roeck
A new history of the Renaissance as a global event which, the author argues, was much more revolutionary and profoundly influential than we currently appreciate. Presented as a panorama of what the author characterises as a restless and dramatic epoch, the book is an exploration of how a distinct concentration of ideas, discoveries, and tumultuous politicalcircumstance should have coalesced in Europe in such a way and at a particular time as to bring about the modern world as we know it.
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Hole in the Sky
by Daniel H. Wilson
As a mysterious object hurtles toward Earth, a Cherokee father, a NASA astrophysicist, and a shadowy government agent each uncover pieces of an impending first contact, forcing humanity to confront what it means to meet the unknown.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jâonasson
Young detective Helgi must find bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir, before her disappearance is leaked to the press, and before it is too late for the missing writer.
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