Daily Archives: November 9, 2019

Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern

In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon’s Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola’s Blackout, and Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor’s edge of panic.
The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern–how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there’s something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don’t have to cope with.
Growing up in the 1970s and 80s in New York, Amanda experiences the magic and madness of life through the filter of unrelenting panic. Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she’s not watching-that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away-Amanda treats every parting as her last. Shuttled between a barefoot bohemian life with her mother in Greenwich Village, and a sanitized, stricter world of affluence uptown with her father, Amanda has little she can depend on. And when Etan Patz disappears down the block from their MacDougal Street home, she can’t help but believe that all her worst fears are about to come true.
Tenderly delivered and expertly structured, Amanda Stern’s memoir is a document of the transformation of New York City and a deep, personal, and comedic account of the trials and errors of seeing life through a very unusual lens.

Knee Deep: Cam Derringer Series Book 1 by Mac Fortner

What would you do if your spouse had been missing for 5 years? Give up? No, neither would Cam Derringer, Key West P.I.

His partner is dead, his wife missing and he is so close to the truth he can taste it.
That is until he wakes in the middle of nowhere, naked and beaten.

From the day they discovered his wife’s boat docked in the Bahamas, Cam has devoted his time investigating the mysterious boat theft ring operating in the Keys. Now, diving deeper into the seedy underbelly of the crime ring, Cam realizes it’s much deadlier than first thought.

Matching wits with the Cartel and a diabolical crime ring much closer to home, Cam finds he can’t trust even his closest friends.

When the mysterious Jenny, enters his life, Cam seems to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but he soon discovers she has a few secrets of her own.

Join Cam as he works both above and below the bounds of the law while trying to save hundreds of lives. International terrorist, the Cartel, and a very evil inner circle of friends lead Cam on the ride of his life.

Boulevard Dreamsby E Ryan Janz

Private Eye, Joe Nails, has a problem.
In this intelligently written, and darkly comic, anti-noir mystery set in the smoky world of 1958 San Francisco, Joe experiences a series of surrealistic yet disturbing dreams, in which his once best friend pleads for Joe’s help, before turning a gun to his own head and firing. To ease his lingering doubts, Joe sets out to locate him, only to discover he disappeared without a trace weeks before the dreams began. But Joe now wants answers, and thereby becomes embroiled in an encircling noose of confusion, passion, anguish, and deception.
Joe Nails has a problem all right, an entire shopping list of them, but as he speeds down an unrelenting road of murder and desperation with no off-ramps, he just may solve a few…providing the approaching .357 yearning for another victim allows it.