Toadling tries to warn him off, but he becomes fascinated by her, and eventually, she warms to him, and she knows she shouldn’t tell him about the maiden in the tower… Ah, much like all of the other Kingfisher books I’ve read, there is a heroine that’s not badass or ...
“100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024” NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: REAL SIMPLE ● OPRAH DAILY ● NEWSWEEK ● VULTURE “Extraordinary . . . Reminds me of Donna Tartt’s 1992 debut, The Secret History . . . I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world, that for hours I ...
A few longer detective fictions were published as separate books in the 19th century, but book-length detective fiction, such as that by Agatha Christie, was really a product of the 20th century. Most critics of detective fiction see the beginning of the genre in the three stories...
There are also differing opinions about how closely historical fiction books must stick to the truth. Some historical novels chronicle true events that happened in the real world with as much accuracy and authenticity as possible. Others lean more heavily on the author’s imagination, and even inc...
National Book Awards, annual awards given to books of the highest quality written by Americans and published by American publishers. The awards were founded in 1950 by the American Book Publishers Council, American Booksellers Association, and Book Manuf
Grace Winters is a seventy-two year old woman living in Lincoln, England. She is a widow, a retired math teacher, has lost her only son, and has just had a minor operation. She is at a very low ebb. She misses her husband Carl such that she constantly aches with grief for him. ...
It’s been more than fifty years since the era of the hippies, and books like this one will help set down and explain the history of that brief period of time, when so many young people thought we could change the world for the better. Talking to Sarah about her book, her family, ...
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That’s a shame, but not your fault. Anil Menon is a brilliant Indian author writing wild, brainy and emotionally engaging stories and novels in English. His books, including the main one reviewed here, The Coincidence Plot (Simon & Schuster, 252 pages), are published by presses well known...
FICTION AI BOOKS Sentience, by Courtney Hunter Leo Knox runs from her violent past and then participates in an AlgorithmOS scientific experiment. Soon, she discovers that this is a test to measure how AI blends in with humanity. Leo and other twenty-three enter Eden where the test is to ...