New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: January 3, 2022

"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...

"[This book] twists together transcripts, emails, and documents into an investigation of a missing college girl, also weaving in the mysteries of how the narrator 'Joseph Knox' came to be in possession of these files and what fate befell the original author, as well as why Knox might not be telling us everything he knows. Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester University in 2011. Her story was sad, certainly, but hardly sensational, Joseph Knox thought....

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

"This biography of English literary great John Milton covers his blindness, his government job, and his unhappy marriage but also discusses the nature of creativity, identity, and freedom of expression. The author illustrates how Milton's work has served as a lodestar for subsequent generations of poets and writers--from Blake and Whitman, to Woolf and Nabokov--and revolutionaries such as the US Founding Fathers. By establishing John Milton in this...