Author Archives: Bookworm

Pamela Mordecai

Posted on August 3, 2026 by Bookworm

Pamela Mordecai, an award-winning poet, novelist, and children’s book author, will release her second collection of short stories in September. Set largely in the Jamaican diaspora, the stories in Two Days in Mayaro (Goose Lane Editions, 2026), are driven by … Continue reading →

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Story of a nurse leader

Posted on July 30, 2026 by Bookworm

Karen A. Daley, who holds master’s and doctoral degrees from BC’s Connell School of Nursing, has overcome personal and professional challenges to become an influential and respected nurse leader. She shares stories of determination and insightful lessons on leadership in … Continue reading →

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‘The Diary of Saint Marion’

Posted on July 28, 2026 by Bookworm

Poet and filmmaker Gloria Monaghan, who holds a master’s degree from Boston College, has published her seventh book of poetry, The Diary of Saint Marion (Lily Poetry Review, 2025). In a review for Cider Press Review, The Diary of Saint … Continue reading →

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The death of a cop

Posted on July 16, 2026 by Bookworm

When a Boston police officer turned up dead in the snow in January 2022, it’s safe to say no one could have foreseen what it would become: a controversial, true-crime mystery that grabbed international headlines. In his new book, Blizzard … Continue reading →

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A mystery in paradise

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Bookworm

The new novel The Dahlia Suite (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2026) by Carinn Jade takes place on Beck Island in the Caribbean. Gabby, the concierge at the island’s most exclusive resort, and resort guests Paige, a frustrated writer, and Lindsay, … Continue reading →

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Believe

Posted on July 6, 2026 by Bookworm

After a 30-year career in neonatal intensive care nursing, Brenda Sheridan, a 1989 Boston College graduate, wrote her first novel, A Better Sense of Being. In Sheridan’s story, Iris Macdonald moves from Manhattan to the Berkshires in the wake of … Continue reading →

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Coming to America

Posted on July 2, 2026 by Bookworm

Early 20th-century America is seen through the eyes of immigrants in Adjacent to History, a book about author John Rilli’s family who came from Europe and settled in New York, Connecticut, and Philadelphia. Rilli’s ancestors left Sicily, Germanic Europe, and … Continue reading →

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Discovering home

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Bookworm

In the award-winning picture book My Heart Speaks Kriolu (Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2025), a grandfather talks of bringing his granddaughter to their ancestral home, Cabo Verde. But each time he urges the young girl … Continue reading →

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A modern retelling of ‘Persuasion’

Posted on June 22, 2026 by Bookworm

Worse Than Strangers (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 2026), a new book by 2019 Boston College graduate Kyleigh Leddy, is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Set on Nantucket, Worse Than Strangers is the story of Lily Gardner, unemployed and … Continue reading →

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