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The Patient Ecstasy of Fraülein Braun
Imagine yourself hiding in an underground bunker with your lover and future husband. Does this sound like the perfect honeymoon? Only if you’re Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler! Eva narrates Mueller’s novel...
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette
I picked this book to read because Maria Semple wrote it. What’s so special about Maria Semple, you ask? Well, she is a co-writer for the television series Arrested Development. Pretty much my whole...
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The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
This novel will undoubtedly be one of the most unusual love stories you will ever read. Beginning in the 1940’s, it chronicles the love affair between Evelyn and her lover, who is sculpted throughout...
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Julio’s Day
Julio’s Day by Gilbert Hernandez, is a moving story of Julio’s lifetime, the family that raises him, and the changing world around him. The simple black and white drawings of this graphic novel...
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The Likeness
Have you ever felt a friendship so strongly, that you know it is meant to be? One that even after five, ten, or twenty years, still contains laughter and pure enjoyment? The main character of this...
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Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
When Issy Randall is laid off from her boring city job, she decides to follow her dreams and open a cupcake café. She is talented no doubt, since she was raised by her beloved grandpa, a successful...
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Omens
Armstrong, well known for her Women of the Otherworld series, begins her new Cainsville series with this supernatural suspense story. Olivia Taylor-Jones, a wealthy Chicago socialite, is shocked,...
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The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, genius genetics professor, can effectively dub his limited dating experiences as a series of “incidents”. Don has under-developed social skills and does not recognize his own Asperger’s...
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The Stud Book
Attending Omaha Litfest on October 19, this author has written a darkly humorous novel that is both intimate and shocking in its details. Parents often have unspeakable thoughts and this book reveals...
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The Fairest of Them All
There’s a reason fairy tales are timeless. They inspire countless spins on fables deeply familiar to us. The Fairest of Them All freshens up the Rapunzel tale while keeping the basic elements loved by...
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White Ginger
Bai Jiang (By Chang) is a souxun (so-SOON), a people finder who works out of her office in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Bai has a delicate relationship with the Chinese triads, gangs, who also work in...
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The Accursed
Have you been longing for some new gothic horror? Is there a book-shaped hole on your shelf where a postmodern version of Dracula should be? Joyce Carol Oates has come to the rescue with a sprawling...
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Rainwater
Rainwater will stay with you for a long time after you have read it. This rare and beautiful story focuses on a woman struggling to run a boarding house alone with a child that has special needs. Set...
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The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
A man from the North Pole meets a woman from the South Pole. It’s love at first sight, but, for mysterious reasons, they cannot touch. The man from Nord, also known as “The Storyteller,” recounts the...
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That Part Was True
As Eve Petworth deals with the loss of her mother, she finds solace in cooking and reading. When she writes to Jack Cooper, a famous American writer, she is surprised to receive a direct response. As...
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The Sisters Brothers
The best thing about book clubs is they introduce you to books you would never pick up yourself. Such is the case with The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. This novel is a literary western, set...
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The Club Dumas
The thin line between passion and obsession has always been ripe ground for storytelling. In the noirish, suspenseful The Club Dumas, dark, obsessive love erupts into violence and murder – not over a...
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When It Happens to You
Don’t judge this book by its author, Molly Ringwald, an actress who reached stardom in the 80’s. You will find it is a terrifically captivating book in and of itself. And any skepticism concerning...
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Loitering
I’m not going to pretend to be an aficionado of essays, but I know a well-curated collection when I see one, fiction or otherwise. This new essay collection by short story writer and essayist Charles...
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Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edogawa Rampo has been called the Edgar Allan Poe of Japan, and with good reason. Each of the nine stories in this collection offers the reader a unique level of creepy discomfort with endings that...
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