Based on the author’s grandfather’s story, this book checks all the boxes for me: ✓ Family saga ✓ Historical fiction ✓ Espionage ✓ Reads like a thriller ✓ Page-turner ✓ Damn good –Judy, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Find your next book that checks all your boxes at Queen Anne Book Company and other …
The Wedding People reminds me of a movie I saw years ago called “A Wedding” which starred numerous big names, including Carol Burnett, who was a hoot. Actually, the two stories aren’t really alike, but they are both big weddings filled with tons of people and a particular person who drops in to wreak havoc. …
It is a bittersweet moment when you turn the last page of a world that has been such a vivid part of your life for the past five years. Spending over 900 pages in Colson Whitehead’s New York of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, with Ray Carney, Elizabeth and Pepper, has been one of the …
Nisha is a burnt-out abortion clinic worker who accidentally inherits an ancient Hindu power, after which chaos of the finest order ensues (think literal demons coming for her). Patel’s research into Indian history and mythology gives the story added weight (not to mention how sharply she captures the current state of reproductive rights in our …
A “centaur,” in modern tech speak, is an individual who uses technology to be a more productive version of themselves. A “reverse centaur” is a person who is forced by technology to work at a pace that is thoroughly inhuman. Doctorow isn’t anti-AI, rather, he—like Pope Leo XIV—is all too aware of the cost hidden …
This is the new standard for AI horror. Tremblay blends satire, paranoia, and genuine emotional depth into a story that is as heartbreaking as it is terrifying. Julia and Bernie quickly become characters you care about, and their cross-country journey transforms from a technological experiment into a meditation on identity, humanity, and love. Unsettling, clever, …
It actually had me laughing out loud. The voice is refreshing; at a time when it seems AI is seeping into everything, you can almost feel the warmth of the human touch here. –Laura, Paulina Springs Books, Sisters, OR Treat yourself to a road trip of a book from Paulina Springs and other independent bookstores.
Foreword Reviews interviewed PNW author, Alexandra Oliva in May Enjoy! Dontaná McPherson-Joseph Interviews Alexandra Oliva, Author of The Radiant Dark Science and fiction—you can almost sense the tension between those two words. Science is serious, it wants evidence and facts. Fiction is playful, it imagines and creates and does whatever the hell it wants. All of …
Douglas Stuart’s books transport me entirely. They wrap me up in stories and characters’ lives that are so real and so beautifully broken that I can’t help but daydream about them and worry about them while my book is closed. Reading this book felt like breathing the freshest air and running into the wind. I …
From Shelf Awareness May 8, 2026 Reading with… Laurie Frankel Laurie Frankel is the author of six novels, including Enormous Wings (Holt, May 5, 2026), a fresh, funny, timely story of bodily autonomy, women’s rights, elder rights, reproductive rights, family, love, grandmas, paparazzi, sex, profane priests, and hamsters. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington …
