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Summer Heat
Intergenerational family secrets reemerge in Defne Suman’s devastating novel "Summer Heat". Melike is a Turkish art historian who agrees to guide Petro, a documentarian, through Byzantine churches. But intimacy with Petro challenges...
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In Extremis
A writer from New York mocks and satirizes himself and other Los Angeles residents in the midst of a forest fire in the satirical novel "In Extremis". In Matt Duggan’s incisive novel "In Extremis", a transplant writer from New York...
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Together in a Broken World
Two boys survive the world’s end while fighting for their growing romance in Paul Michael Winters’s post-apocalyptic novel "Together in a Broken World". Following global collapse, most of the population is either dead or zombified....
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The Shabti
A former confidence man confronts a haunted ancient Egyptian artifact while running from his past in Megaera C. Lorenz’s novel "The Shabti". Dashiel, a former fraudulent medium, makes a meager living holding shows revealing his former...
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Fog & Fireflies
In the eerie, suspenseful fantasy novel Fog & Fireflies, a brave girl confronts a relentless and mysterious force. The world is encased in fog that births dangerous phantoms and false voices and that spirits away anything that falls...
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Saints and Monsters
A kingdom’s fate rests on the shoulders of a princess who deals with dragons in Ellen McGinty’s novel "Saints and Monsters". Meera’s back brace and blue hair draw the unjust denigration of others who consider her cursed. She is...
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The Gift Child
In Elaine McCluskey’s novel "The Gift Child", a former news photographer explores her genealogy following a mysterious disappearance. When her cousin, Graham, vanishes, Harriet is drawn back into the orbit of her narcissistic father,...
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Of Starlight and Midnight
A brooding, magic-wielding elf barges into a librarian’s secrets as she investigates her mother’s mysterious death in Amy Kuivalainen’s novel "Of Starlight and Midnight". After a violent war, elvish brothers Søren and Aramis are...