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When Life Drops a Coconut on Your Head…

A Las Vegas comic billed as “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Lonny Day has built his career around impressions, especially a dead-on imitation of the President. Then the President is assassinated, Lonny’s signature act becomes unthinkable and almost everything else in his life starts coming apart. His wife, Doris,…
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September 16, 2026
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The Worst of Both Worlds in “Exit Party”

Emily St. John Mandel, the author known for titles like Station Eleven, returns with another engrossing work of speculative fiction. Exit Party brings us the worst of both worlds as it explores two very different futuristic versions of a post-collapse United States. The story opens in the year 2031 as…
Riley Harker
September 15, 2026
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The Stories You Love Aren’t Done with You Yet

If you’re anything like most readers out there right now, you can’t get enough of reimagined classic stories (cue Jane Austen’s romances, Frankenstein, The Odyssey, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca). I understand the appeal. While writing my own novel, Burning the Raven Tree, I found myself…
Janyre Tromp
September 15, 2026
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The Devastation of Disappearing in Plain Sight

Live for Me, Nkem, is a book about depression that pulls you inside a mind that is quietly shutting down. Nneka Oluoha's debut is an emotionally honest portrait of maternal depression and it braids that portrait into a richly rendered Nigerian American family. Nkem Ezenwa has the life immigrant parents…
BookTrib
September 9, 2026
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A Haunted Gettysburg Novel

Most Civil War novels about Gettysburg focus on the battle itself. Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life begins where many of them end: with the dead sprawled in the fields, the wounded packed into churches and barns, farms stripped bare, and civilians trying to piece together whatever can be salvaged after…
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September 10, 2026
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The Machinery of Survival in Malta’s Darkest Hours

By early 1942, Malta was in trouble. The small British-held island sat directly across Axis supply routes to North Africa, which made it strategically valuable and an obvious target. Bombing had intensified. Food, fuel and aircraft were in short supply. And every ship that managed to reach the island had…
BookTrib
September 9, 2026
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The Strange Business of Free Will

John Merlan thinks he is nearing the end of things: his career is sputtering out (no thanks to his employer), his heart will not keep a steady rhythm, and most of his oldest friends are gone, save one. What remains is the question of what to do with the freedom…
BookTrib
September 8, 2026
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Giving Voice to the Women History Left Behind

I spent a lot of my younger life fantasizing about living in Regency England or the nineteenth-century United States. As I got older, I understood either context would have been intensely uncomfortable — for anyone used to modern hygiene and for me as a Chinese American, in particular. I was…
Bo Wang
September 8, 2026