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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
MiscellanyRecommended

Poems for the Long Journey of the Soul

What if autobiography did not begin with birth or end with death? What if the story of a life included people we have loved before, lessons carried from one incarnation into another, unfinished relationships that find us again and glimpses of worlds beyond the one we can see? Diane Skye…
Cynthia Conrad
September 2, 2026
FictionRecommended

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…
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September 9, 2026
FictionRecommended

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
FictionRecommended

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…
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September 9, 2026
FictionRecommended

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…
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September 8, 2026
NonfictionRecommended

The Unlikely Making of a World Series MVP

There's a moment early in Just Enough where David Eckstein is running through the dark backroads of Warren, Rhode Island, in the middle of a 0-for-27 slump, wondering if the Red Sox front office was right about him all along and that he was never cut out for the big…
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September 8, 2026