Notable New Releases

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides shows you exactly what type of book it's aiming to be from the very first sentence: "Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband." No messing around here. For people who like their thrillers-slash-mysteries to have twisty plots and straight-forward writing,...

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens opens with a picture of a map and the discovery of a dead body in the marshes of North Carolina. [caption id="attachment_4317" align="alignright" width="375"] Reese's Book Club September 2018 Pick[/caption] I was immediately intrigued when I saw it in the bookstore, but grew...

Early on in the The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker, two college students discuss the Trolley Problem, a very popular thought experiment in ethical decision-making. It's a scenario (would you kill one person to save five?) that has made its rounds again and again in academics, pop culture and in...

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou tells the story of Theranos, a biotech startup that had a staggering rise to a close to $10 billion valuation and an even more dramatic fall. The very short version of this review: I was really impressed...