Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For March, we’re looking at a re-release of Shogun, a retelling of the founding of Rome, two different novels set on remote islands, a unique science fiction novel about a science fiction novel, a new historical mystery series set in 1960s Vermont, an audiobook about a race to fly across the Pacific in the 1920s, Western true crime about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and a chronicle of following the over 10,000-mile annual monarch butterfly migration on a bicycle.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Reissued Classics, Roman Mythological Fiction, Island Fiction, Science Fiction Metafiction, Vermont Mysteries, Historic Flights, The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, and Monarch Butterfly Migrations”Category: historical fiction (books)
Book Buzz: Historical Romances, Assyrian Queens, Oklahoma-Based Reservations, Coming-of-Age Audiobooks, Turkish Cookbooks, and Modern Manners
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For February, we’re looking at a historical romance set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a fictional look at the only ruling queen of Assyria, a mystery set on a fictional Oklahoma reservation, a coming-of-age audiobook, a delectable cookbook from a Turkish-American baker, and a guide to teaching children manners in the modern age.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Historical Romances, Assyrian Queens, Oklahoma-Based Reservations, Coming-of-Age Audiobooks, Turkish Cookbooks, and Modern Manners”Book Buzz: Navajo Mysteries, YA Fantasy, Western Short Stories, French Historical Mayhem, Victorian Dinosaurs, and the Berlin Wall
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For January, we’re looking at a mystery series set on the Navajo reservation with a supernatural twist, a YA fantasy that’s been described as The Hunger Games with magic, an anthology of Western short stories, a highly entertaining fictional series about the lead-up to the Hundred Years’ War, a nonfiction audiobook about when the Victorians met dinosaur bones for the first time, and a unique commemorative on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Navajo Mysteries, YA Fantasy, Western Short Stories, French Historical Mayhem, Victorian Dinosaurs, and the Berlin Wall”Book Buzz: Literary Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Show-Stopping Entertaining, and Series Galore
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For December, we’re looking at literary fiction set in North Dakota, Hawaii, and Sarajevo; a delightful cozy women’s fiction series about a librarian set in rural Ireland; dark fantasy; nonfiction about eye-catching charcuterie boards; and a couple of very different series of audiobook historical mysteries.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Literary Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Show-Stopping Entertaining, and Series Galore”Crystal King’s In The Garden of Monsters
Julia Lombardi has no memories of her life before a couple of years ago. In the meantime, she has worked as a model for artists living in post-World War II Rome. When the famous surrealist Salvador Dalí offers her the chance to work as his model for Persephone in an eerie gothic garden called the Garden of Monsters, she jumps on the chance, despite her misgivings. Dalí is offering her a lot of money, and it will only be a week. No matter how bizarre the infamously eccentric artist is or how insufferable his domineering manager wife is, it will only be seven days. What could possibly go wrong?
However, as Julia soon sees, a lot can go wrong in seven days. The Dalís are even more strange and difficult than she had ever bargained for, Dalí himself begins to insist she is Persephone and forces her to eat pomegranate seeds, she hears unsettling whispers in the garden, and she can’t shake the feeling that their intense, mysterious, magnetic, handsome host Ignazio is someone she knows from somewhere. Amid the days of indulging Dalí’s increasingly tyrannical artistic whims and the nights of feasting on elaborate, sumptuous themed banquets in the historic palazzo attached to the garden, Julia herself starts to wonder if she is Persephone. . . .
Continue reading “Crystal King’s In The Garden of Monsters”Book Buzz: Acadians, Forgotten Names, Pirates, Irish Westerns, Dystopian Fiction, Alaskan Fishing, and Organ Transplants
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For November, we’re looking at historical fiction about the Acadians, World War II, pirates, and the American West; an outdoorsy new science fiction dystopia; a tale of commercial fishing in the Bering Sea; and nonfiction about how a heart transplant changed two families.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Acadians, Forgotten Names, Pirates, Irish Westerns, Dystopian Fiction, Alaskan Fishing, and Organ Transplants”Book Buzz: Fictional Kidnappings, New Harington, Generational Curses, Medieval Relic Heists, Soccer, Slashers, Space Disasters, and Cowboy Comfort Food
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For October, we’re looking at literary fiction about a summer camping gone wrong, relatively newly released Donald Harington stories, a jaunty tale of medieval relic heists, a story about a Tejano family throughout the decades, a novel about modern soccer, fiction and nonfiction audiobooks, and a cookbook.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Fictional Kidnappings, New Harington, Generational Curses, Medieval Relic Heists, Soccer, Slashers, Space Disasters, and Cowboy Comfort Food”Book Buzz: Sequels, Historical Thrillers Galore, Love Ice and Fire Style, and Experimentals Kits
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For September, we’re looking at a long-awaited follow-up, historical thrillers from a range of time periods, a new-ish contemporary romance series, and our very own Experimentals STEM and STEAM kits.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Sequels, Historical Thrillers Galore, Love Ice and Fire Style, and Experimentals Kits”Book Buzz: Jamaican Fiction, Historical Fiction, Social Satire, Funny Romances, Outlaws, and Midwives
Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For August, we’re looking at a coming-of-age novel set in Jamaica, historical fiction that ranges from the Napoleonic Era to the mid-20th century, Kevin Kwan’s latest book, an amusing contemporary romance about cyclists, new Western reads, glamorous historic true crime, and a historical romance audiobook set in the American West.
Continue reading “Book Buzz: Jamaican Fiction, Historical Fiction, Social Satire, Funny Romances, Outlaws, and Midwives”Andrey Kurkov’s The Silver Bone
Samson Kolechko is an engineer by training, but in the chaos that is Kyiv, Ukraine, in the spring of 1919, he finds himself a police investigator. Only weeks after losing his ear and his father to a rogue Cossack’s saber, Samson also contends with the uncertainty of everyday life in a world where the government changes every few weeks, depending on which army is in control of the city, and power and supply shortages, forced requisitions, and sudden violence are the only constants. Still, in the middle of all that, he finds himself immersed in an unusual case involving a silver bone.
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