Here is Jeneva Rose’s latest domestic thriller, The Perfect Divorce, complete with bloodspattered edges. (Yes, the books ship that way. No, we didn’t suffer a terrible papercut while getting these books out of the boxes. We appreciate your concern.) Anyway, The Perfect Divorce is about Sarah and Adam and Sarah and Bob. Oh, and former deputy Marcus …
Reginald Bakeley’s classic Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop: And Other Practical Advice in Our Campaign Against Fairies, Gnomes, Goblins, and Other Nasty Members of the Fairy Kingdom is back in print! Thank goodness. Our chickens are all going to sleep more securely tonight, knowing that Mr. Bakeley’s timeless advice is once again readily available to the lay person. …
Here is Ken Forkish’s Let’s Make Bread, a delightful comic book cookbook (filled with illustrations and helpful diagrams by Sarah Becan). Much like Let’s Make Ramen and Let’s Make Sushi, Let’s Make Bread is a charmingly illustrated guide to, well, making bread. Plan accordingly. And bring us some examples of your efforts. Please and thank you. –A Good Book, Sumner, WA …
Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years Karl Marlantes is back with Cold Victory [available this week in paperback], a novel about community, family, and skiing. Set in 1947, Cold Victory tells the story of two young military attachés who drunkenly challenge each other to a cross-country wilderness race. Since this is Finland, …
Out Nov. 5 is Sy Montgomery’s next exploration of the natural world: What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird. Sy has had a flock of chickens for more than two decades, and during that time, she’s come to know them all: their weird walks, their distinctive calls, their awareness of …
The King of Not-Cozy has a new book out. This is Chuck Palahniuk’s Shock Induction, a satirical parable about surveillance capitalism, indentured servitude, and sleazy billionaires. Kids at a highly reputable high school are disappearing, and no one wants to talk about what’s happening. That’s because everyone knows these kids are being chosen for a …
Here is Willy Vlautin’s The Horse, which is the story of Al Ward, a man in his final years, who finds a horse on his doorstep one morning. He’s not sure if the horse is a hallucination, but its presence triggers a lot of contemplation of life—the one he had and the one he didn’t …
Here is a new Jackson Brodie mystery by Kate Atkinson. In Death at the Sign of the Rook, we find Brodie trudging through a tedious case involving a stolen painting. But Brodie soon discovers this theft is but one of many, and the trail leads him to a dilapidated estate which has recently been converted …
Local favorite Cherie Priest is back this week with The Drowning House, a suitably gothic ghost story about a house that washes ashore, the woman who knows its secrets, and the pair of childhood pals who must put aside old rivalries to figure out the mystery of the house that has come back from the …
Adrian Tchaikovsky is back […] with a story about a little household robot who makes a mess around the house one day. Dismayed that they’ve exceeded their programming (and it wasn’t entirely their fault), they do what all accidental murderers do: they run. And when they do, they discover a strange world where humanity is …
