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“The Ministry of Time” is GMA’s May Book Club Pick, Soon Headed for TV Adaptation

The Ministry of Time (Avid Reader Press) has been named one of the most-anticipated debuts this spring. It garnered numerous glowing reviews from major publications, sold adaptation rights to A24 and BBC pre-publication, and has been named Good Morning America’s May book club pick. Bestselling romance author, Emily Henry, calls…

Megan BeauregardMay 17, 2024

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Speculative Debut Explores Life in the Shadows of a Surveillance State

Shadows exist as reminders of people’s crimes in this poetic, disturbing and hopeful debut from Marisa Crane. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Catapult) is a near-future, speculative sci-fi novel, set in an imagined United States that feels eerily similar to our own. The Department of Balance acts as the…

Megan BeauregardFebruary 6, 2023

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Wild Bill Rides Again: Everyday Man Drops Everything and Takes Off — With FBI on His Tail

Remember news anchorman Howard Beale from the classic 1976 Oscar-winning movie Network, who proclaims in the middle of a seemingly nervous breakdown that he is “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore?” Beale, who observed the injustices and misfortunes of a society in the throes of a…

Jim AlkonNovember 10, 2023

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Interview with Maxine Rosaler, Author of “Queen for a Day”

It is bold work to invite us into the world of children who are eligible for special education—and their long suffering parents. Maxine Rosaler does this in her novel, Queen for a Day, through her main character, Mimi Slavitt and her young son, Danny. We, the audience, are alongside Mimi…

Susan Shapiro BarashJune 7, 2018

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Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N’ Roll Collide in Compulsively Addictive Crime Novel

The Last Verse is a tour de force second novel written by author Caroline Frost whose debut novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow (2022) set in East Texas won the Crook’s Corner Literary Prize and was nominated for additional awards. It is not hard to predict readers will welcome more from…

Linda HitchcockApril 17, 2024

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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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Riveting Novel of High-Stakes Espionage, Freedom and Romance

Identity and independence are inextricably linked in Willard Thurston’s newly illustrated edition of Anastasia, a study of a talented Russian spy striving to free herself from the ever-tightening Gordian knot she finds herself at the center of. We first meet Anna Anastasia Karolovna Kniaźnin as a promising young Soviet schoolgirl…

Cynthia ConradAugust 9, 2023

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Follow Russian Spies & a Sentient Computer That Can Predict the Future

In Bull Dance, Willard Thurston’s follow-up to Anastasia (our review here), we are treated to yet another prismatic rendering in the complex tale of the fates and fortunes of the Kniaźnin-Stolbanov sisters and the constellation of memorable characters swirling in their wake. There’s Anastasia Kniaźnin, a Russian spy deep undercover…

Cynthia ConradNovember 3, 2023

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Brutal Murder Reveals Dark Secrets in Idyllic College Town

Esteemed Ivy League college president Dr. Amos Loeb is an Auschwitz survivor, a renowned scholar, a heroic humanitarian, a man beloved for “his simple kindness”— an unlikely target for assassination, one would think. Or is he? Surely this is a case of mistaken identity or a robbery gone wrong, right?…

Dawn IusJune 13, 2023

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6 Modern Novels That Explore Resilience in the Face of Adversity

There’s no question about the fact that we are living in tumultuous times. Despite the remarkable progress made for equality in the last century, everyone has felt the recent shift that has left many clamoring to hold on to their hard-earned rights. With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the…

Megan BeauregardMay 8, 2024

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Art and Crime Worlds Collide in Action-Packed International Thriller

Colombia. Coming here was a disaster. Dying here… not an option. Fascinating people create fascinating stories. Author Linda Moore draws on extensive knowledge as an art gallery owner, student of Hispanic studies, and her personal journeys in South America to create an enthralling and immersive story set in Colombia in…

Michael FerryMay 14, 2024

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This Provocative Novel Dives Deep Into Mental Health, Relationships and the Generational Divide

That might be the closest one comes to describing and understanding Trey Ciuri, the protagonist in John Peter Fer’s complex, far-reaching novel A Fool and A Whore. That description was from one of Trey’s many friends that Fer introduces using extended dialogue between characters rather than traditional literary narrative to…

Jim AlkonNovember 17, 2021

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Enthralling Novel Captures Essence of Humanity in Futuristic, AI-Ruled Setting

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” famously wrote Shakespeare in As You Like It. And in 2102: Pretense, the Play, William E. Jefferson takes this concept to an entirely different level with the strange world of Onglander — a country of the future…

Cynthia ConradMarch 15, 2024

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Man’s Mystical Journey to Amend the Past in Bohemian Ibiza

There’s a passage in author Justin Kurian’s ambitious novel The Canticle of Ibiza where John, who has abandoned his life in New York as a high-flying financial whiz to seek answers on the mystical island of Ibiza, Spain, explains to a budding love interest, Diana, how he ditched his previous…

Jim AlkonMay 7, 2024

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A Second, Closer Look at Amor Towles’ “A Gentleman in Moscow”

With the popularity of Amor Towles at an all-time high from the recent launch of the TV series “A Gentleman in Moscow” based on his bestselling novel and his just-published and highly acclaimed Table for Two collections of short stories, multi-award-winning author William Maz (The Bucharest Dossier and The Bucharest…

William MazMay 3, 2024

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Behind the Scenes of “Good Morning America’s” May Book Club Pick

With The Nigerwife, novelist, playwright and poet Vanessa Walters takes her first excursion into the mystery genre — and it’s an impressive one. The book has already been optioned for HBO. The Nigerwife introduces us to Nicole, who seemingly has the perfect life — a handsome husband, Tonye, two beautiful…

Michael SearsMay 17, 2023

“The Ministry of Time” is GMA’s May Book Club Pick, Soon Headed for TV Adaptation

Wild Bill Rides Again: Everyday Man Drops Everything and Takes Off — With FBI on His Tail

Interview with Maxine Rosaler, Author of “Queen for a Day”

Compelling Literary Fiction Explores Creation, Beauty and The Ideal

Riveting Novel of High-Stakes Espionage, Freedom and Romance

Follow Russian Spies & a Sentient Computer That Can Predict the Future

Brutal Murder Reveals Dark Secrets in Idyllic College Town

Art and Crime Worlds Collide in Action-Packed International Thriller

This Provocative Novel Dives Deep Into Mental Health, Relationships and the Generational Divide

Enthralling Novel Captures Essence of Humanity in Futuristic, AI-Ruled Setting

Man’s Mystical Journey to Amend the Past in Bohemian Ibiza

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