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The Women

by Kristin Hannah

When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, Frankie joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destructi…

Chain-Gang All-Stars

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Have you been sentenced to a life in prison? Are you looking for a way out? In this dystopian debut novel, Adjei-Brenyah provides the brutal answer… gladiator-style death matches. If you stay alive for three years, yo…

The Curse of Pietro Houdini

by Derek B. Miller

The Curse of Pietro Houdini has everything you want in a historical page-turner of a novel: a colorful cast of characters, some with shadowy pasts; a rich, historical setting in and around the WWII siege of Montecassino…

Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

How do you make sense of a life when all you can see is loss? How do you find meaning amidst the messiness of living? Thorny questions for sure, but as Cyrus Shams struggles with love, loss and addiction in his quest to…

Day

by Michael Cunningham

In this deceptively simple and absolutely beautiful novel, a family navigates life as families do: moving backwards and forwards. growing together and apart, learning about love and compassion, hope and grief, success a…

What Moves the Dead

by T. Kingfisher

Fatal fungi, a non-binary narrator, a crumbling Eastern European nation, and a family desperately clinging to the decaying remnants their aristocratic past… This is a wickedly macabre reimagining of Edgar Allen Poe’s…

Age of Vice

by Deepti Kapoor

Part crime drama, part family saga, and all money, power and corruption set in modern India, Age of Vice has all the ingredients that you want in a thriller, Bunty Wadia is the ruthless patriarch of the Wadia empire. Hi…

The Writing Retreat

by Julia Bartz

The enigmatic and intoxicatingly charming Roza Vallo writes dark, fantastical, sapphic horror that has developed a cult following. Alex is ecstatic to find out that she has secured a spot at Vallo’s exclusive writing re…

Fup

by Jim Dodge

I read this little gem at least once every year to laugh at Jake’s moonshine antics and to revisit the strange and tear-inducing adventure of Tiny and his mysterious duck, Fup. Take your whiskey or tea out to the back p…

The Heart of It All

by Christian Kiefer

In the opening chapters, Kiefer manages to capture the landscape of the Midwest in winter with a care and love that will resonate for anyone with ties to the area, even those of us who have left it behind. This isn’t so…

How to Sell a Haunted House

by Grady Hendrix

In the wake of her parents’ death, Louise is forced to fly back home to plan her parents’ funeral, handle her useless estranged brother, and clean out her parents’ house that is filled to the rafters with her mother’s c…

A City on Mars

by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith

HOLIDAY GIFT PICK Space technologies and space business are progressing fast, but we lack the knowledge needed to have space kids, build space farms, and create space nations in a way that doesn’t spark conflict back…