There is lots of good banter, sometimes you can’t tell if the character is saying, thinking, or just gesturing (oh, you) but the author gets the feeling across efficiently and quickly which makes the reading much more pleasurable.
The sci-fi story Shorefall,expands on world building, societies, and technologies, questions what the author created, exploring politics, faith, and humanity.
Lux by Elizabeth Cook – a retelling of Books 1 & 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, the story of King David, how it applied to King Henry VIII, and poet Thomas Wyatt
January Scaller is the ward of a wealthy collector who employs her father to bring artifacts from around the world, she finds a book with tales of secret doors.
The Queens of Animation The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History tells of women who worked at Disney Studios
Alexander Von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature by Maren Meinhardt – is a biography of this German scientist.
The World War II book Agent Jack The True Story of MI5s Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton is expertly researched with extensive notes and bibliographical info
A Futile and Stupid Gesture How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever by Josh Karp – a biography of Doug Kenney who cofounded National Lampoon
Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora – A historical novel about a woman who used her wits and good looks to become the wife of the ruler of the empire.
Chasing the Moon: People Politics and the Promise That Launched the Space Age – looking at the thinkers dreamers and futurists that envision the space program