Posted in Asian Interest Graphic Novel

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

Shadow Life | Hiromi Goto | When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she

Posted in Graphic Novel Speculative Fiction

Squad by Tokuda-Hall Maggie

Squad | Tokuda-Hall Maggie | When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck–and she can’t believe their secret, either.

Posted in Historical Historical Romance

The Heiress by Molly Greeley

The Heiress | Molly Greeley | In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman’s Wife combines the knowing eye

Posted in Asian Interest Speculative Fiction

The Empress Of Salt And Fortune by Nghi Vo

The Empress Of Salt And Fortune | Nghi Vo | A fantasy novel of spring 2020 with the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo’s the Empress Of Salt And For

Posted in Autobiography/Biography

Crossing The Border by Kim Chernin

Crossing The Border | Kim Chernin | Kim Chernin breaks literary boundaries and shatters silences in everything she writes – from her explosive memoir In My Mother’s House, hailed by News

Posted in Asian Interest Speculative Fiction

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

She Who Became The Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan | To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything ‘I refuse to be nothing…’

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty y

Posted in Autobiography/Biography

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries And Notebooks: 1941-1995 by Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries And Notebooks: 1941-1995 | Patricia Highsmith | Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of ‘our greatest modernist writers’ (Gore Vidal). B

Posted in Asian Interest Horror

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Cassandra Khaw | A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to

Posted in Historical Fiction Speculative Fiction

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Matrix | Lauren Groff | Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France

Posted in Fiction

Destination Baby by Peters, Torrey

Destination Baby | Peters, Torrey | Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous