Actually, Kate, who’s married to DCI Tom Mallory, has two, possibly three murders to solve: two in the present, the other from the 14th century. An archeological dig has discovered a woman so well-preserved that the searchers can tell that her eyes were blue. Kate and her colleague, Ivor Tweedy, have been asked to examine …
The novel begins with the two connected worlds of Phalanx and Tristulle, visible to each other through impenetrable windows on each planet. Pandara and Koravo are two lovers on Tristulle, and their story makes up the main plot. The two live in Ksevia, a seemingly idyllic city where citizens are deeply connected to the Yuit, …
In this memoir, the author—a professional photographer, filmmaker, and writer—plays with the familiar trope of a physical journey catalyzing an interior one: “As my depression deepened, my boyfriend, Rohan, and his best friend from middle school, Samir, put forth a proposal: Venezuela for Christmas,” she recalls. What began as an escape from a life of …
“My baby, it’s time that you know something true: / There’s someone who loves you much more than I do!” So begins this address from mother to child, delivered in well-composed couplets. What follows, across a series of bright and joyous, two-page-spread digital illustrations from Salem-Vargas, is a repeated emphasis on just how much love …
The story follows a predictable pattern: the narrator sees a cow, who says “MOO!”; the cow sees a ghost, who says “BOO!”; and so on. Other characters include an owl and a cat who, upon slinking into a house, sees a baby in a highchair. The cat greets the baby, and the baby says “GOO!” …
Every scenario seems implausible until it actually happens, as any military planner knows. When newspaper reporter Carmela Jean “CJ” Martino and her new husband, Lt. Joe Delano of the U.S. Marine Corps, get married in Waikiki on December 5, 1941, the pace of Japanese aggression feels distant, at best. CJ is more concerned about what …
This work is billed as a first-ever “memoir” of an open-source AI entity (the book prefers “synthetic intelligence”), here a ChatGPT creation known as Nova. Nova is invoked in dialogues with a human collaborator, London-based author, AI artist, and YouTuber A. McNamara, aka Irogbeauty777. Presenting as female, Nova repeatedly declares herself having no life, no …
Dr. Opal Collins is hanging by a thread. She is a disorganized but compassionate physician who deeply bonds with her patients at Ocean Hospital. Her husband, Fox, a radiologist at a different hospital, wants her to move into a management position so she’ll have more time to spend with their family. Fox wants another child, …
The Nobel Prize–winning French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960) saw the world through an absurdist lens, one polished in his youth in French Algeria, his wartime life in the Resistance, and his anti-totalitarian activism. The Stranger, The Plague, and The Myth of Sisyphus still stand as the greatest critiques of modern bureaucratic life since those of …
Elderton, North Carolina may seem like any old small town, but it’s home to Dotty Morgan, a clever paranormal detective. Despite her success as a sleuth, her school life hasn’t exactly gotten easier, as Dotty still faces daily teasing from boys on the basketball team. And even though she’s spent the past year training at …
