Reviews are from Amazon. Spotlight Pick: Elevation Stephen King The first thing to note about Stephen King’s Elevation is that it is a short book—small and short. This being an online store, it is useful to point out that it will not land on your doorstep with the thud of a typical Stephen King novel. The second…
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Amazon’s Best Books of 2018 (So Far) #10-20
Here are #10-20 of Amazon’s picks that have not yet made it onto BookMovement book clubs’ radar–For the Amazon picks #1-9 that are also Top Club Picks of 2018, subscribe to our newsletter–see the subscribe box above. 10. The Feather Thief The title of The Feather Thief smartly echoes Susan Orleans’ The Orchid Thief, and The Feather…
Amazon Picks the Best Books of August
AUGUST SPOTLIGHT PICK: Dopesick I thought I understood the origins and impact of America’s opioid crisis. Then I read Dopesick. Beth Macy’s book revealed the greed that drove OxyContin to be America’s drug of choice, and it opened my eyes to the shame of addiction that kept this epidemic hidden until far too late. Opioid addiction…
Amazon Picks the Best Books of May
Reviews by Amazon May Spotlight Pick: Warlight by Michael Ondaatje “First sentences matter, and Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight begins with a distinctly dramatic one. “In 1945, our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals” says 14-year-old Nathaniel, who with his older sister Rachel finds himself living in bombed-out…
Amazon Picks the Best of March
The following reviews are from Amazon March Spotlight Pick: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao I first imagined that the title of Girls Burn Brighter referred to the custom of widows immolating themselves upon their husbands’ funeral pyres. While no women suffer that fate in this contemporary novel, that’s practically the only bad thing that doesn’t happen…