The book is a testament to the bonds between women who can share in each other’s triumphs and understand each other’s insecurities. In E. B. Lande’s "Bedtime Stories for Grown-up Girls", a remarkable friendship unfolds between two... Read More

"Gone on Sunday" mixes the light touch of a cozy mystery, the terrible weight of history, a hint of romance, and the secrets of stifling summer. In Tower Lowe’s delicious and sultry "Gone on Sunday", a forty-year-old murder mystery... Read More

This fast-moving thriller is also a surprising celebration of survival. Gary D. McGugan’s "Three Weeks Less a Day" is an international thriller whose protagonist is a breast cancer patient, though his illness is only one of many twists... Read More

These stories bring to life a world that most will never see, where native populations, eccentrics, inveterate drifters, entrepreneurs, and foreign service workers meet. Nine memorable short stories set in locales ranging from... Read More

With themes of sacrifice and the search for beauty amid tragedy, this novel lingers in idealism. In "Remembrance of Blue Roses", a divorced United Nations civil servant forges an unusual friendship with a German coworker and his wife,... Read More

This erotica reads like a naughty tell-all, written to be shared over a few rounds of cocktails with the girls. The third book in Suzanne Eglington’s Kate And Robert Chronicles, "Beckham 101" is a breathless, racy romance that pushes... Read More

This is an entertaining, dark novel about the lengths that those in power will go to in order to remain in power. An engrossing depiction of parallel worlds—one ruled by wizardry, the other by science—and the Oxford graduate students... Read More

This ghostwritten autobiography of an African American artist is reminiscent of Richard Wright or Maya Angelou. “Color theory says that black, the absence of all colors, matters; and that white, the presence of all colors, matters,”... Read More