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A Dark Retelling of Love and Murder in Maggie O’Farrell’s Latest Historical Fiction

Those who have read the complex works of Maggie O’Farrell, especially her previous historical fiction, Hamnet (Tinder Press), or her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am (Tinder Press), know they are in for a rare treat when O’Farrell announces she is back on the historical fiction scene — this…

Lydia LefevreSeptember 9, 2022

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Classic Myths Combine to Form a Sprawling Tale of Good and Evil

When I was informed I’d be reviewing Tolv Walstad’s next book, Evocator Crystallum, I was thrilled. His previous novel, The Relic ranks among the best books I’ve reviewed while working here, and I was eager to get my next fix. I’m happy to report that Evocator Crystallum is just as…

Wyatt SemenukSeptember 9, 2022

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A Female Blade for Hire Leads this Gripping Fantasy Novella

“The soul of the warrior was servitude. The only reason to fight was to protect yourself or defend those who could not protect themselves. If a person never had to bleed in the field or watch their friends die in the mud, then you, as a warrior, were doing your…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 8, 2022

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A Man Goes Face-to-Face with the Dead to Save a Life in This Haunting Western Mystery

Craig Johnson consistently, intelligently and with customary dry humor, melds literary fiction with western crime fiction as Sheriff Walt Longmire rides the Wyoming High Plains range in the pickup truck he calls “Silver Bullet," delivering justice. Hell and Back (Viking), his 18th novel in the Longmire series, opens with a…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 7, 2022

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Einstein? Time Travel? In One Man’s Attic, Eternal Questions and an Enticing Sci-Fi Adventure Unfold

Children are not shy about asking the tough, practically unanswerable questions of our existence, such as, "What happens after we die?" However, haunted by a fundamentally unanswerable question his eleven-year-old self asked, present-day quantum physicist Adam Reemi turns to four critical scientific and philosophical minds for answers, including none other…

Ann LinebergerSeptember 1, 2022

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Compelling Literary Fiction Explores Creation, Beauty and The Ideal

“Has anyone in this crowd thought much about — What made thee? What Made Thee? Not who you slept with last or why you put that chalk dust up your nose but — What made thee? Where did you, babe, dude or specialist come from? Why and how? Stuff like…

Cynthia ConradAugust 31, 2022

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An Otherworld Journey Delivers Surreal Fantasy

It was a dark and stormy night (yes, really). Icy rain falls as a six-wheeled imperial berlin drawn by eight great horses hurtles along a mountain road, followed by a mounted escort on unruly thoroughbreds. Inside the coach are the aging, bejeweled Lady Drasher Elizabeth Tasgneganz, two doctors and two…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 22, 2022

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Coming-of-Age Near the 1940s Chicago Baseball Scene

Ernie’s Bleachers was clearly a passion project for author Tim Pareti, whose family owned the Ernie’s Bleachers tavern in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood just across from Wrigley Field. It’s the tavern that became Ray’s Bleachers, home of the 1969 Bleacher Bums, and then Murphy’s Bleachers, which is still going strong eight decades…

Dennis HetzelAugust 17, 2022

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Moving Story of Adoption, Parenting and What Makes a Family

Unconventional family stories are fun to read and give us an understanding of unfamiliar situations, allowing for the development of empathy. Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family (Putnam) is about open adoption, siblings and how their adoptive families chose to raise them together as one big family. Although the subject may…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 16, 2022

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A Whimsical Glimpse into the Ruse of Reality TV

In her debut novel, Tune in Tomorrow: The Curious, Calamitous, Cockamamie Story of Starr Weatherby and the Greatest Mythic Reality Show Ever (Solaris) — a fantastical satire of the craziest proportions — author and former Soap Opera Digest editor Randee Dawn takes readers into the paradoxical world of reality TV.…

K.L. RomoAugust 16, 2022

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Three Siblings’ Lives Are Irrevocably Changed by the Turbulence of the 1960s

In his previous novels, America and Freedom, Mike Bond brought us four ambitious young people who, on vastly different paths, are navigating their way through the country’s turbulent years of sturm und drang. It’s the 1960s, and each of them has responded to the tumult and politics with passion and…

Sherri DaleyAugust 15, 2022

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“The Last White Man” Speculates About Racism and Prejudice

The central theme of Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man (Riverhead Books) is straightforward: race is a construct. In this highly anticipated novel from the author of the bestselling Exit West, the main character Anders is distressed when his skin suddenly changes to a deep, unmistakable shade of brown. He…

Michael FerryAugust 9, 2022

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Amid Florida’s Lurid Nightlife, a War Rages Between the Rational and the Animalistic

In Carleton Eastlake’s provocative and sharply written Monkey Business (Red Hen Press), William Fox is caught somewhere in between that civil war — as a writer immersed in the corporate, political and social minutiae that defines the entertainment industry and, in this case, the TV series for which he writes,…

Jim AlkonAugust 9, 2022

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“All This Could Be Different,” A Radiant Portrait of a Young, Queer, Immigrant Woman

This novel is as vibrant as its cover, alive and awash with people and love. Its first chapters begin in a rhythm that is clipped and clear, the beat of it ticking along like a clock until suddenly, it shatters, lurching into the life of a young, queer, Indian woman. All…

Megan BeauregardAugust 5, 2022

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A Novel of Hope and Persistance Under Communist Occupation

Virginia Gemanar is worried. Her boyfriend, university student Jenica Cureteanu, has stood her up for a much-anticipated date. Could he have somehow forgotten? But he had just asked her yesterday to go with him to today’s concert. Then Jenica does not show up for lunch plans with their friends Doina and…

Cynthia ConradAugust 4, 2022

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Meet the Unbreakable Soul That Will Unite the Realms in This Exhilarating Adult Fantasy

Get ready for an emotional paranormal romance as Ashton Lure brings together the angel, demon and human realms in Porcelain: The Soul That Never Broke by Miranda Dodge. The protagonist in the first book of the Reuniting the Realms Series has been through hell, quite literally in some instances. Renowned…

Monique SnymanAugust 5, 2022

Fiction – Featured

A Dark Retelling of Love and Murder in Maggie O’Farrell’s Latest Historical Fiction

Classic Myths Combine to Form a Sprawling Tale of Good and Evil

A Female Blade for Hire Leads this Gripping Fantasy Novella

A Man Goes Face-to-Face with the Dead to Save a Life in This Haunting Western Mystery

Einstein? Time Travel? In One Man’s Attic, Eternal Questions and an Enticing Sci-Fi Adventure Unfold

Compelling Literary Fiction Explores Creation, Beauty and The Ideal

An Otherworld Journey Delivers Surreal Fantasy

Coming-of-Age Near the 1940s Chicago Baseball Scene

Moving Story of Adoption, Parenting and What Makes a Family

A Whimsical Glimpse into the Ruse of Reality TV

Three Siblings’ Lives Are Irrevocably Changed by the Turbulence of the 1960s

“The Last White Man” Speculates About Racism and Prejudice

Amid Florida’s Lurid Nightlife, a War Rages Between the Rational and the Animalistic

“All This Could Be Different,” A Radiant Portrait of a Young, Queer, Immigrant Woman

A Novel of Hope and Persistance Under Communist Occupation

Meet the Unbreakable Soul That Will Unite the Realms in This Exhilarating Adult Fantasy

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