Tilt by Emma Pattee has a chilling premise: Annie, eight months pregnant, is shopping for a crib in an Ikea in Portland, Oregon when suddenly the world begins to shimmy and tilt and the store is crashing down around her. When an Ikea employee pulls her our from a pile of boxes and shelves, Annie realizes a huge earthquake has struck Portland. With no cell phone service and her vehicle destroyed, Annie sets out on foot across the devastated city to find her husband. Enc

This bit of confection is worth picking up right away: One & Only by Maurene Goo is a delightful piece of magical realism that is perfect for summer escapism. Cassius Park is from a family that has a secret and it's a good one. All the women in her relations have a gift: they can read people's faces to see into their past lives to predict who their soulmate is. This art of Korean matchmaking has been handed down for centuries and they brought it to Los Angelos in the 1

This gorgeous little novel was transcendent. Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg was just not long enough because I didn't want it to end. Ninety-two-year-old Flo has been told that she is going to die in the next few weeks. Having no children and her husband being dead, she decides she will leave everything (which isn't much) to her old neighbor Ruthie. The novel becomes one long letter to Ruthie about the trinkets and treasures Ruthie might find in the inherited ho

Apocalyptic story? Sign me up! Takes place in Wisconsin and written by a Sconnie writer? Yes, please! Dating After the End of the World by Jeneva Rose was a fun read that delivered the thrills. Casey grew up in Wisconsin with a doomsday prepper father. She was bullied because of that as a child and always felt frustrated and embarrassed by her dad. In present day, Casey is working as a doctor at a Chicago hospital when a virus breaks out. And you guessed it, it's sp