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Saint Death's Daughter
C S E Cooney
2022
"I loved Saint Death's Daughter to pieces. I loved the world-building and the characters …
Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
Amy Gajda
2022
We live in a world where we know more about each other than ever before. New technologies, social m…
Shrines of Gaiety
Kate Atkinson
2022
The latest novel from award winning author Kate Atkinson, "Shrines of Gaiety" is a sprawl…
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
2014
The first book chosen by Thornwell Books new Book Club #2 was a jolt to read. Set in a future when …
Station Eternity
Mur Lafferty
2022
Depending on your point of view, "Station Eternity" is either a mystery set in space or a…
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History
William Alexander
2022
Growing up in Morganton, every July and August our kitchen counters overflowed with the tomatoes my…
The Bodyguard
Katherine Center
2022
I wanted to include a review of a romance in this newsletter but I hadn't read one in awhile s…
The Daughters of Kobani
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
2021
The fight against extremist and terrorist groups in the Middle East sometimes seems hopeless. Wins …
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Riley Black
2022
Riley Black has written a new sort of dinosaur book. It isn't really even about dinosaurs. Ins…
The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
2022
The most delightful element of "The Latecomer" is the ironic deadpan humor of the narrati…
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
2021
Amor Towles has written a quintessentially American Odyssey, a “coming of age” story, following the…
The Maid
Nita Prose
2022
The mystery genre has only 2 basic requirements, an apparent crime, most often murder, and an attem…