The Astonishing Life of August MarchIn this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theaterCandide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles Dickens. Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater able to recite Shakespeare

Sloan takes us on a wild ride through the world of music

But she has her own ax to grind with Dagon

When Gabby Perez is almost drugged at a nightclub

Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she’s a demanding hulk of a woman

earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time

and social media gone amok

sticky notes become the new social media

Call Me Lanny is sure to be the hockey memoir of the year

\"Space opera the way it ought to be

and its cowboy culture

accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard

read by David Suchet