You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations by Mike Edison

by Kelly Kobayashi | Aug 25, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Education, Parenting & Families, Humor

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Sterling Formats: Hardcover Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] “If you find yourself on your deathbed, using your very last breath to rip into your kid… I think it is fair to say you...

Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day

by Kelly Kobayashi | May 2, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Seventh Street Books Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Rader-Day’s Little Pretty Things sprints head-on into the disappointing existence of former high...

Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics by Rick Shenkman

by Kelly Kobayashi | Apr 29, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Social Science

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Basic Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] If you’re living inside the United States at this particular moment, beleaguered by...

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax

by Kelly Kobayashi | Jan 6, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Religion

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: She Writes Press Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] “God loved her because ‘the walls of her home never saw a hair on her head.’ Even when Hannah...

Tim Curious: A Murder Mystery of the American Revolution by Roddy Thorleifson

by Kelly Kobayashi | Dec 18, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Sponsored, Tweens, Young Adult

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Roddy Thorliefson Formats: Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble[/alert] Tim Curious follows the trials and triumphs of young siblings Tim and Sadie during the American Revolution. Beautiful...