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A Mastermind Meets His Match

Diane Vitullo learned a great deal from her uncle Trevor Hawthorne. He taught her to recognize deception and anticipate an opponent’s next move. Those lessons have served her well as an NSA agent. They become considerably harder to apply when the person she needs to outwit is Trevor himself, especially…
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October 2, 2026
FictionRecommended

An Alien Promises to Save Earth. A Scientist Has Reason to Doubt.

In Marlen Suyapa Bodden’s In Defense of Earth, the prospect of planetary destruction begins with a family trying to survive the storm of the century. By the time an extraterrestrial android offers to rescue humanity from climate catastrophe, Elaine Johnson-Coleman’s world has already been shattered. Seventeen-year-old Elaine is a competitive…
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October 6, 2026
FictionRecommended

An Oliver Twist-Inspired Saga Finds Its Way Home

Blaenavon is a town where clocks tell their own time, the dead remain present and coming home can take more than a century. That makes this Welsh mining town fitting territory for Llanderado! All That Glitters Is Not Coal, the final book in shoeless’s Cranehill Saga, a trilogy loosely built…
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September 23, 2026
FictionRecommended

A Coming-of-Age Story Steeped in a Turbulent Time

Mathew Tekulsky's The Chestnut Tree tackles some of the biggest questions of a generation. Set in the fictional Westchester suburb of Beachmont during the fraught, electric years of 1966 and 1967, the story is narrated by twelve-year-old Adam, a dry cleaner's son who is a lovestruck kid, budding photographer and…
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September 22, 2026
FictionRecommended

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
NonfictionRecommended

Finding Light in the Shadows of Memory

From the Cyclops Cave is a memoir written by Don Schofield where an American poet, long settled in Greece, rents a house on the island of Kýthnos that the locals call "the Cyclops Cave." Alone there for three summers and two Easters in '92, '93 and '94, gazing out at…
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September 14, 2026
MiscellanyRecommended

Poetry That Finds the Holy in the Hard Places

Laura Wifler came to poetry late and, by her own account, reluctantly. For much of her life, she thought the form was obscure, overly complicated ... and simply not for her. Then, while homeschooling her children, she encountered poems that were clear without being simplistic, beautiful without requiring a decoder…
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September 15, 2026