Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström’s "The Bucket List" is a classic Nordic noir thriller—tight, layered, and so chilly that it shivers. In the picturesque Swedish hills, Emelie, the daughter of a family of billionaires, goes missing.... Read More

Meatballs, free jazz, and subway singers? This is a fine romance. A fanciful courtship flourishes between two artistic loners in "David and Ameena", whose leads deal with connections, synchronicity, and cultural differences. David and... Read More

Jen Gunter’s "The Menopause Manifesto" is a self-help guide through menopause for all women of a certain age. Menopause is commonplace and complicated at the same time. Shrouded in myth and peppered with prejudice, it is not often... Read More

Josephine Caminos Oría’s memoir "Sobremesa" is warm and nourishing, covering family, food, love, and heritage. It is also a romantic, bicultural coming-of-age story with a touch of magical realism. When Oría, a first-generation... Read More

In E. M. Wright’s steampunk, alternative past novel, humans become biomaton slaves when their body parts are replaced with mechanical ones, and their brains are changed to suit their new stations by dampening or removing all human... Read More

Told through the voices of strong, albeit fractured, women across generations, "The Seed Keeper" is a novel about legacies, generational trauma, and the inescapable call of one’s roots. Rosalie’s mother died when she was four. She... Read More

A teenage girl fights to save her family and an entire realm in Sara Holland’s young adult fantasy novel, "Phoenix Flame". Maddie always thought that the inhabitants of Solaria were an evil, dangerous race. Now that she knows the... Read More