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Murder Your Employer

Murder Your Employer: McMaster's Guide to Homicide

Rupert Holmes
2023
Many years ago I saw a performance of Rupert Holmes' musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood&…
Fantasy —
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Fredrik Backman
2013
Fredrik Backman, the Swedish author best known for his book "A Man Called Ove", has a kna…
Fiction —
One Two Three

One Two Three

Laurie Frankel
2021
Laurie Frankel has been one of my happy discoveries since opening Thornwell Books. Like James McBri…
Fiction —
Pandora's Lab

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

Dr. Paul Offit
2022
Dr. Paul Offit is a scientist who has spent his career working on vaccines. During a visit to a mus…
Nature —
Poverty, By America

Poverty, By America

Matthew Desmond
2023
Matthew Desmond says in his prologue that he wrote "Poverty, By America" in an attempt to…
Political Science —
Remarkably Beautiful Creatures

Remarkably Beautiful Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt
2022
Several years ago, I read Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus". I had heard that…
Fiction —
River of the Gods

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candace Millard
2023
We no longer live in a world where there are unknown lands and continents to discover. The Age of E…
History —
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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 …
Fantasy —
Seek and Hide

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…
History —
Shrines of Gaiety

Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson
2022
The latest novel from award winning author Kate Atkinson, "Shrines of Gaiety" is a sprawl…
Fiction —
Mandel

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 …
Science Fiction —
Station Eternity

Station Eternity

Mur Lafferty
2022
Depending on your point of view, "Station Eternity" is either a mystery set in space or a…
Science Fiction —