Skip to main content

Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters

Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small. Their father, Adam, is a brilliant oceanographer who raised them mostly on his own. Ken is now a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family, and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his 70th birthday. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he is determined to make one last scientific breakthrough. So he has secretly stopped taking his pills. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family --- Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known.

Read more »

August 2023 Bookaccino Live Event

Links to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JAPcyGqSQ9qf4WMLbQSd9A#/registration.

Naomi Hirahara, author of Evergreen: A Japantown Mystery

It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California  --- but nothing is as they left it. Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse? Only a few days later, Little Tokyo is rocked by a murder at the low-income hotel where the Watanabes stay. What secrets have the Watanabes been hiding, and can Aki protect her husband from getting tangled up in a murder investigation?

Read more »

Win 12 Copies of EVERGREEN by Naomi Hirahara for Your Group

Each month, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.

Our latest prize book is EVERGREEN by Naomi Hirahara, a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick that is now available. In this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning CLARK AND DIVISION, which also was a Bets On title, a Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family. To enter, please fill out the form below by Wednesday, September 13th at noon ET.

—USA Today

—Esquire

—Vulture

—Paste

—SCI FI Magazine

—Publishers Weekly