A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
by Sophie Elmhirst
"117 Days Adrift!" read the headlines, as well as the title of the book that Maurice and Maralyn Bailey published soon after being rescued from the raft they survived on when their sailboat was wrecke... (Tom)
The Art of a Lie
by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Art of a Lie is my favorite book of 2025 so far! I was drawn in by the main character's eighteenth-century confectionery shop and treated to a page-turner full of more twists and turns than a Hitc... (Haley)
The Sleeper Train
by Mick Jackson and Baljinder Kaur
Aboard the Indian sleeper train, everyone is getting ready for bed. But one little girl is too excited to sleep. She thinks it might help to try to remember all the places she has slept in the past, l... (Haley)
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
by Hervé Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale
Some writers, faced with the prospect of an early death, respond, at least on the page, with a kind of grace, a generous, expansive clarity, colored, even purified, by the urgency of their awareness o... (Tom)
Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts
by Muriel Rukeyser
This hefty, beautiful, and mysterious book tempted me from across the store for months, and when I finally had the time to sit down with it, it turned out to be all of those things: hefty, beautiful,... (Tom)