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Amity by Nathan Harris
“New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War might be over, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they’ve been promised. Two years ago, the siblings were separated when their old master, Mr. Harper, t…
Hellions by Julia Elliot
Weird and wondrous is how I would describe Julia Elliot’s Hellions. A collection of short stories that range from science fiction, to fantasy, to realism, the throughline in these stories is how voraciously I read every…
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
When we’re lucky, there are some books that stay with us long after we’ve finished reading the last page. This was the case for me, after reading The Bog Wife. In this strange and atmospheric ecological occultic family…
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
In this sapphic dark fantasy about vampires, V.E. Schwab explores what makes us human, and what remains when our mortality is stripped from us. With incredible tenderness and vitality, we see the innermost lives of char…
THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES By Kate Messner
A beautiful and heartwarming story of a 13-year old boy who unwillingly is required to hike 46 Adirondack peaks during the summer. During this adventure he sorts out many problems and difficulties in his life, and com…
The Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh
Lush, verdant, alive: The Greenhollow Duology (Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country) is a coupling of folkloric novellas steeped in the magic of The Green Man mythology of European lore. At once fantasy, and queer r…
Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
“Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and n…
The Doorman by Chris Pavone
“A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats.
Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most fam…
The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
“One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The…
Speak To Me Of Home by Jeanine Cummins
“On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her…
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
“Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write…
Notes to John by Joan Didion
“In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dun…