“Intrigue and danger on campus, a teenage girl with dark secrets and a true tale of anxieties vanquished” populate the August 6th People’s list of the Best New Books. (Reviews are from People magazine.) Book of the Week The Incendiaries Not long after she arrives on the campus of an elite East Coast college, freshman…
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Vogue’s Picks for August
Charismatic men is the the theme for Vogue’s august picks…as Saiorse Ronan graces the cover & discusses her role as Mary Queen of Scots. His Favorites Following the accidental death of a friend, 15-year-old Joe Hadley Shows up mid-semester at a posh boarding school in Kate Walbert’s stunningly hazy novel His Favorites (Scribner). The new…
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…
This Week’s People Picks
Book of the Week: You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld “Perfectly paced, witty and laced with unexpected twists: Every story here sticks its landing. Sittenfeld writes about suburban mothers’ groups, couples too caught up in family life to notice each other, flirtations born of boredom and more than one brush with fame…
The Most Anticipated Books of May
From Entertainment Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2018 and our 2018 Preview E-Book May 1 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner “Kushner has twice been nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction (The Flame Throwers, Telex from Cuba) — an impressive feat considering she has only published two novels to date. Her new book…