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HELLIONS | Kirkus Reviews
Uneven but fitfully amusing. Awards & Accolades Likes 24 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard.
FREAKSLAW | Kirkus Reviews
Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.
Return to Sender: Rethinking Retail Returns
As major sales events reshape Asia’s retail landscape, brands must prepare for a surge in online purchases—and the subsequent rise in retail returns. With processing costs climbing and consumer expectations for seamless experiences higher than ever, efficient returns management has become essential for preserving margins and ensuring customer satisfaction. Across all retail sectors, the average return rate is approximately 17%.
TILT | Kirkus Reviews
Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.
HUNCHBACK | Kirkus Reviews
Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.
The Secret to Outstanding Customer Service: Empowering and Energising Store Associates
In the world of retail and service, the phrase “the customer is always right” has long been a guiding principle. Originally popularised by Swiss hotelier César Ritz, who is famous for the Ritz in Paris and the Carlton in London, this idea marked a significant shift in customer service. Back in the late 1800s, when consumer protection was minimal and “buyer beware” was the norm, Ritz’s emphasis on putting the customer first was revolutionary.
Arinze Ifeakandu Believes We Should Have Functional Public Libraries.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).
Arinze Ifeakandu Believes We Should Have Functional Public Libraries.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).
The Best Novels about the History of the United States
You’ve chosen five novels about the history of the United States. Can you explain what you mean by that, and what kind of books you were looking for? To me, the United States, and especially the United States of the 20th century, is a Petri dish of crisis. It’s a nation whose 250-year history has often been described as ‘the American experiment’ because there’s an attempt at a whole new style of government, of social organization, that had never existed before.
How Seamless Shopping Journeys Are Reviving Physical Retail Stores — Supply Chain Insights
With ecommerce projected to capture 41% of global retail sales by 2027, it might seem counterintuitive for retailers to continue investing in new and existing physical stores. Yet, retailers like Fujifilm, Sketchers, and are not only maintaining their brick-and-mortar presence but actively innovating with new store concepts to better serve modern shoppers and stand out in a competitive market.
THE AMERICAN NO | Kirkus Reviews
In a book of autobiographical short stories, Everett exhibits the same rakish charms as a writer that he shows as an actor but also reveals a deep streak of romanticism. The title refers to the way film pitches are rejected in Hollywood: after loud initial enthusiasm, silence.
ONLY STARS KNOW THE MEANING OF SPACE
"Don't go into the woods" takes on unsettling new meaning in Moore's blend of domestic drama and crime novel. Many years after her older brother, Bear, went missing, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from the same sleepaway camp he did, leading to dark, bitter truths about her wealthy family. One morning in 1975 at Camp Emerson—an Adirondacks summer camp owned by her family—it's discovered that 13-year-old Barbara isn't in her bed.
SISTER SNAKE | Kirkus Reviews
"Don't go into the woods" takes on unsettling new meaning in Moore's blend of domestic drama and crime novel. Many years after her older brother, Bear, went missing, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from the same sleepaway camp he did, leading to dark, bitter truths about her wealthy family. One morning in 1975 at Camp Emerson—an Adirondacks summer camp owned by her family—it's discovered that 13-year-old Barbara isn't in her bed.
THE HEART OF WINTER
A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death.
BROTHER BRONTË | Kirkus Reviews
A stunning tale of survival and a biting critique of book bans and late capitalism. The town of Three Rivers, Texas, has seen better days.
How Seamless Shopping Journeys Are Reviving Physical Retail Stores
With ecommerce projected to capture 41% of global retail sales by 2027, it might seem counterintuitive for retailers to continue investing in new and existing physical stores. Yet, retailers like Fujifilm, Sketchers, and are not only maintaining their brick-and-mortar presence but actively innovating with new store concepts to better serve modern shoppers and stand out in a competitive market.
NOT THE SAME RIVER
A moving, hilarious reminder that parenthood, just like life, means constant change. During an annual beach vacation, a mother confronts her past and learns to move forward. Her family’s annual trip to Cape Cod is always the highlight of Rocky’s year—even more so now that her children are grown and she cherishes what little time she gets with them.
THE HISTORY OF SOUND
Intricately structured, powerfully emotional, beautifully written: This is as good as short fiction gets. Echoing a song form popular in 18th-century New England, the second story in each pair deepens and clarifies the first. A painting of a bird left as a parting gift in 1796 (“Edwin Chase of Nantucket”) turns up in a widow’s attic more than 200 years later (“The Silver Clip”), yet in both it is a token of regret and loss.
THANKS FOR THIS RIOT
Stories that will amuse and entertain fourth-wave feminists. An acerbic examination of family and femininity. The stories in this collection plumb the performance of womanhood. Daughters, wives, girlfriends, and caretakers writ large reflect on their prescribed familial roles, their bodies, their professions, or their solitude with dry wit.
SKIN & BONES | Kirkus Reviews
An award-winning author of books for young readers explores white supremacy and anti-fat bias in her first novel for adults. No matter how Lena Baker might feel about her big body, others see her size as concerning, inconvenient, or distasteful. She has to go to several stores before she can find a shop that will help her find a wedding dress. Getting a restaurant table that meets her needs is an embarrassing ordeal.
PATTERNS OF THE HEART
A debut by a modernist prose master more than 50 years in the making—and well worth the wait. A collection of poignant portraits of Korean lives during a tumultuous century. “When would the day arrive when he didn’t feel like howling in sadness?” That’s the bleak situation facing Sangjin, a writer who’s fled to the Korean countryside to wait out the end of World War II in Ch’oe’s luminous collection of stories.
Strategies for Supply Chain Resilience in the Global Permacrisis Era
In recent years, the concept of ‘Permacrisis’—a term denoting prolonged periods of instability and insecurity, sparked by concurrent catastrophic events—has gained prominence. This term not only encapsulated the essence of 2022 but continues to hold relevance in 2024, affecting global supply chains and subsequently, the retail sector. The ongoing challenges underscore the critical need for robust strategies that enhance both supply chain resilience and retail operations.
THE BODY FARM | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
SELF-PORTRAITS | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
HOMEFRONT | Kirkus Reviews
An engrossing collection grounded by the complex emotional dynamics between soldiers and their families. Kelly presents an anthology of stories reflecting on the effects of war on home and family. Drawing on her experiences as the wife of a fighter pilot during her husband’s three wartime deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the author, a novelist and poet, collects here 14 tales inspired by the lives of women affected by military service and war.
THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY
An urgent, sweeping call to arms for the protection of books and book lovers everywhere. How dangerous can books really be? When the narrator of Al-Essa’s novel is hired by his unnamed dictatorial government as its new book censor, he doesn’t expect to embark on a twisted, perilous reckoning with the power of literature. He is meant simply to read books and either approve or ban them, searching for illicit mentions of queerness, democracy, the Internet, or the Old World.
THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE GRAVEDIGGER'S GUILD
Good fun, and blissfully inconclusive, as befits a shaggy-dog story of unending reincarnations. Brigadoon meets Claude Lévi-Strauss in a pleasing tale of the supernatural. David Mazon is the sort one would suspect lives in his mom’s basement. In his mid-30s, he finally bestirs himself to finish his doctoral dissertation in anthropology, a field project that takes him from Paris to the rural French village of La Pierre-Saint-Christophe.
A TRUE ACCOUNT | Kirkus Reviews
Enjoy the author's strong eye for details of time and place; skim the muddled pirate action on the high seas. Issues of identity loom large in this tale of a female pirate whose journal becomes the research subject of a professor and her ambitious student. Hannah Masury’s “Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates” tells a classic story: In 1726, the illiterate teenager witnesses the murder of a young sailor by pirates and knows she must flee Boston.
THE DESERET RECKONING
In Huffman’s novel, a young man unwittingly endangers himself and his friends as they retrace a relative’s journey through Utah taken century before. The novel explores two moments in a family’s history, taking place 112 years apart, both concluding in violence. Their convergence point is a young man named Tom Sullivan, who, in the early 1980s, works at a sporting goods store in Golden, Colorado, and hangs out with a salesman and Vietnam veteran named Jack Elmore, drinking in Jack’s garage.
THE HELSINKI AFFAIR
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
KING NYX | Kirkus Reviews
A smart and engaging literary thriller that bears down too hard on its themes. At the home of an eccentric millionaire, a woman discovers out-of-the-ordinary events. When her husband is invited to finish writing his book at the island home of a reclusive millionaire, Anna is relieved: If he sells it, they’ll be able to keep their Bronx apartment and she won’t have to go back to work at the laundry.
THE BODY OF THE SOUL
A welcome introduction to the short fiction of an essential writer. Centrifugal, pensive, often elusive stories by the one of the greatest living Russian writers (and leading anti-Putinist).
A SELF-PORTRAIT IN THE YEAR OF THE HIGH COMM… | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. Awards & Accolades Likes 20 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2022 New York Times Bestseller Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South.
PRIMA FACIE | Kirkus Reviews
A rawly moving debut filled with insights into the legal system and its shortcomings. A London lawyer’s faith in the legal system is tested after she’s sexually assaulted. As a criminal defense attorney, Tessa Ensler is often called upon to argue on behalf of people accused of rape. Possessed of an acute knowledge of the law and a brilliant mind (and, as she comes to realize, the default upper hand), Tessa routinely wins acquittals for her clients.
DATING SILKY MAXWELL
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. Awards & Accolades Likes 19 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2022 New York Times Bestseller Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South.
PROPHET SONG | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
ILIUM | Kirkus Reviews
An edgy confessional novel with the trappings of spy fiction. A lonely young London woman is unknowingly drawn into a high-stakes intelligence campaign by the man she marries. Nearly 21, the never-named woman who narrates the novel is targeted by Marcus, a worldly, jet-setting American who happens to own the private garden she spent hours dreamily gazing at as a child.
SO LATE IN THE DAY
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
THE GENERAL AND JULIA
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
BURN MAN | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. Awards & Accolades Likes 19 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2022 New York Times Bestseller Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South.
Cart Abandonment: Reducing Friction at the Point of Conversion
In the fast-paced world of ecommerce, cart abandonment has become a significant challenge for retailers. With the rise of omnichannel fulfillment and the increasing demand for fast and convenient delivery options, the complexity of the fulfillment process has escalated. As consumers’ expectations continue to soar, the importance of delivery and pickup experiences has transitioned from afterthoughts to critical factors influencing buying decisions.
FREEMAN'S | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. Awards & Accolades Likes 19 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2022 New York Times Bestseller Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South.
Direct-To-Consumer Growth Fuels Supply Chain Innovation
While the pandemic and subsequent ecommerce explosion drove strong demand for true omnichannel supply chain commerce solutions, it also fuelled a less immediately obvious longer-term move towards direct-to-consumer (D2C) fulfilment too.
THE BOOK OF EVERLASTING THINGS
by Aanchal Malhotra ‧ Two lovers navigate their lives as they are split into separate nations. Malhotra’s debut novel starts off in pre-Partition Lahore, where Samir Vij, a 10-year-old Hindu boy, inherits his paternal uncle Vivek's olfactory prowess. Much of the plot—spanning 80 years and several cities—is accentuated by this inheritance.
The Trail Runner Lightning Round 50K: Nicholas Triolo
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USERS | Kirkus Reviews
by Colin Winnette ‧ The inventor of a cutting-edge VR project descends into a state of profound alienation. Winnette’s recent novels have ventured into the realm of surreal Westerns (Haints Stay, 2015) and unsettling ghost stories (The Job of the Wasp, 2018). With this new novel, he’s opted for a different route, following the life of Miles, a man working for a virtual reality company who has been receiving death threats.
SCATTERLINGS | Kirkus Reviews
by Rešoketšwe Manenzhe ‧ In 1927, when “illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives” in South Africa is prohibited by the Immorality Act, the van Zijl family's fate turns tragic. South African writer Manenzhe’s debut looks back to an especially cruel moment in history when sexual relations between Blacks and Whites were pronounced unlawful, threatening prison for the adults involved.
WHEN TRYING TO RETURN HOME
What can’t McCauley do? A writer to watch. Short fiction featuring Black and Latine characters trying to figure out their roles within their families, their love lives, and their communities. In the bite-sized title story of McCauley’s collection, the narrator, Andra, moves to South Florida, where her new co-workers want to know where she’s from. “No, I mean…really?” they say. Andra’s father is Black, her mother Puerto Rican.
MANY ARE INVITED
by Dennis Cuesta ‧ In this novel, a rivalrous friendship in Northern California during the tech boom of the 1990s comes to a spectacular crescendo. Steve Galanos didn’t initially like his colleague John Goertz. When John warned the phone company for which they worked of the impending disaster that came to be known as Y2K, Steve thought it was an opportunistic career move, especially since it was only 1994.
THE WHALEBONE THEATRE
by Joanna Quinn ‧ A profound sibling bond gets the Seagrave children through their dysfunctional childhood and shapes their experiences during World War II. Cristabel is 4 years old when her widowed father, Jasper Seagrave, remarries. The only redeeming thing about her stepmother, Rosalind, who clearly hates her off the bat, is the prospect that she might produce a brother.
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