Book Reviews

Every Deadly Suspicion by Janice Cantore
Janice Cantore’s Every Deadly Suspicion is set in present day…

The Love Haters by Katherine Center
In an effort to avoid being laid off from the video production…

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
It’s 1909 and Emily Wilde is a professor of dryadology at…

Children’s Art Books for Summer Reading 2025
Summer reading is well under way at Joplin Public Library. In…

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
January 28, 1986, was the day NASA's carefully cultivated image…

Finlay is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
The fifth Finlay Donovan book is out and reminded me how much…

Culture: the story of us from cave art to K-pop by Martin Puchner
It can be easy to dismiss popular culture as trite and inconsequential.…

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Journalist Alice Scott longs to move from writing features and…

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Louise never thought her family was weird, really. She’s always…

OH, OLIVE! by Lian Cho
Next Tuesday kicks off the most exciting time of year: Summer…

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
One not-small benefit of working at a library trucks with it…

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
Helen Cartwright was born in a small English village but lived…

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11pm tonight. But our narrator…

A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
Each year, over six million people visit Grand Canyon National…

Fable by Adrienne Young
This book is for any reader that has pretended to be a diver,…