“Lucinda lay awake beneath her bedcovers. The wind wailed at her window. Tree branches scraped against the glass like ragged fingernails. It was almost too scary to go into the woods. Almost. “Under her sheets, she shined her flashlight on the map of the woods she’d drawn with crayons in…

It’s always good when you find a book you can’t put down, and The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault is definitely a book you can’t put down. The novel follows the investigation being undertaken of Detective Henry Peacher. A therapist is dead after being bludgeoned in his office,…

In a time where around us, there’s a lot of racism and xenophobia, including from the nation’s leaders, reading a book about individuals viewing the United States through the eyes of someone born outside the country is even more important. Leah Franqui’s America for Beginners takes readers on a journey with…

Sometimes, you just really need to read a book that you can’t put down, especially when there’s a lot of news going on and you need a break. Enter The Immortal Gene by Jonas Saul to fill this role. When you pick up the novel, you think it’s going to be a…