18 new books to check out today!
It’s Tuesday again, and a lot of fascinating new books are out today. Here are a few to consider picking up. * Stephanie Marie Thornton, Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (Berkeley) “Thornton writes lyrically about the two Marys, and readers will sympathize, deeply, with their struggles to find their […]
This ‘Schitt’s Creek’ writer has a new small-town series. Here’s ‘The Big Door Prize’
A scene from “The Big Door Prize.” (Courtesy of Apple TV+) The small town of Deerfield is a comfortably ordinary place until a mysterious machine called the Blue Morpho arrives. In exchange for a few quarters – and providing one’s Social Security number and fingerprints – the machine promises to reveal a person’s life potential. […]