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First Few Pages: Super Host

Posted on January 4, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

55-year-old Turner Prize-winning artist Bennett Driscoll is now a stranger in his own home. Without any income, he's forced to move into his artist studio at the back of his house and put the large West London residence up for rent on a popular vacation rental site. He struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day until three guests come along.

First Look: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Posted on November 21, 2020| Posted in First Look Club

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.

First Look Club: Reina reviews Plain Bad Heroines

Posted on November 21, 2020| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit

First Look Club: Katya reviews Plain Bad Heroines

Posted on November 21, 2020| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.

First Few Pages: Super Fake Love Song

Posted on November 19, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Self-proclaimed total nerd, Sunny Dae, meets Cirrus Soh and he can't believe how cool and confident she is. She comes over one day and mistakes Sunny's older brother Gray's room — filled with electric guitars and rock posters — for his own. Then Sunny sort of, kind of, accidentally winds up telling Cirrus that he's the front man of a band. He gets knee-deep in the lie until just he's about to come clean, Cirrus asks to see them play sometime.

First Few Pages: A Time for Mercy

Posted on November 3, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

It's 1990 in Clanton, Mississippi and Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when he's appointed the attorney to Drew Gamble. The timid sixteen-year-old is accused of murdering a local deputy and many want a swift trial and the death penalty. There's more to the story than meets the eye and Jake is committed to saving Drew from the gas chamber, with his career, financial security, and his own family's safety on the line.

Author Spotlight: V. E. Schwab

Posted on October 22, 2020| Posted in Spotlight

We chat with V. E. Schwab about her latest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which covers 300 years figuring out the true meaning of life and death, freedom and immortality—plus, we dip into writing, reading, and coping with the current state of the world.

First Few Pages: Love Your Life

Posted on October 21, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Ava still thinks that love should be found in the real world, not just on apps that filter men by specific personal information — she believes in feelings, not algorithms. After a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy.