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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 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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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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“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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“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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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

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A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

When We Let Go (Lake Union Publishing) is a love story for grown-ups, with all the life-stuff grown-ups must deal with — from first loves, shattered hopes and losses to family dynamics and teenaged angst. Rochelle Weinstein is good at telling stories like this. This is her sixth such novel,…

Sherri DaleyAugust 3, 2022

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Treasure Hunters Seek WWII Art Looted by Nazis

The Colonel’s Lost Vault explodes with international intrigue and action from the first page as modern-day adventurer Sophie Lions searches for an immense treasure, hidden for decades in a secret Nazi vault. Author TS Wieland delivers the punch of Mission Impossible along with the historic interest and sophistication of The…

Michael FerryJuly 28, 2022

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Immerse Yourself in the Emotions Brought on by the Pandemic in “Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Picoult

After waiting a bit to recover from the stress, I was finally ready to dive in to a novel set during the Covid outbreak. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed where Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult took me! Diana is almost 30 years old and is hoping to get engaged when she…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 15, 2022

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“Hope and Glory” Questions the Meaning of Home and Family

Jendella Benson’s debut novel, Hope and Glory (William Morrow), celebrates Nigerian culture and close family ties. THE PLOT Glory Akíndélé’s family are Nigerian immigrants living in London. She’d always considered her older sister, Faith, “a Stepford Wife,” consumed with her husband and toddler twins. Glory craved independence and needed to make…

K.L. RomoJuly 7, 2022

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Old Fears and Prejudice Resurface in Celeste Ng’s Latest Novel

The storyline of Celeste Ng’s newest novel, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press), travels uncomfortably close to the bone. In an undefined future, the US is in a troubling place; its citizens are racially divided, tracked and spied upon by government officials, and are often betrayed by neighbors and family. Following…

Sherri DaleyOctober 4, 2022

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Long-Divorced Lucy Barton Finds Love During Pandemic

A LONG-DIVORCED COUPLE'S UNEXPECTED BOND IN THE EARLY LOCKDOWN DAYS In Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Lucy By The Sea (Penguin Random House), Lucy Barton draws us right in with her first few words, understated, self-effacing and intimate: “Like many others, I did not see it coming. But William is a…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 19, 2022

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Corrupt Justice System and Inner-City Strife Met with Steadfast Love

In L.O.R.D.’s riveting drama, Momma Bear (Go Get It Publishing), eighteen-year-old Glenda James’s boyfriend rejects her and their baby boys, Kevin and Cory. Determined to provide for her sons, she brings them to New Haven, Connecticut, for a job. But when her plans fall through, she must choose whether to…

Gisèle LewisSeptember 28, 2022

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“My Name Is Edward”: A Novel of Homelessness, Heartbreak and Hope

My Name Is Edward by Annmarie Topel is a carefully crafted debut novel based on personal experience. “This is a story of fiction inspired, in part, by true events,” she writes. She dedicates her book to the homeless man, who in her book she names Edward: “You will always be in…

Joanna PoncavageJune 15, 2022

Fiction – Featured

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

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

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

“The Last White Man” Speculates About Racism and Prejudice

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

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

A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

Treasure Hunters Seek WWII Art Looted by Nazis

Immerse Yourself in the Emotions Brought on by the Pandemic in “Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Picoult

“Hope and Glory” Questions the Meaning of Home and Family

Old Fears and Prejudice Resurface in Celeste Ng’s Latest Novel

Corrupt Justice System and Inner-City Strife Met with Steadfast Love

“My Name Is Edward”: A Novel of Homelessness, Heartbreak and Hope

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