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Summer Heat

by Isabella Zhou

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... Read More

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In Extremis

by Isabella Zhou

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... Read More

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Together in a Broken World

by Isabella Zhou

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.... Read More

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The Shabti

by Isabella Zhou

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... Read More

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Fog & Fireflies

by Isabella Zhou

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... Read More

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Saints and Monsters

by Isabella Zhou

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... Read More

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The Gift Child

by Isabella Zhou

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,... Read More

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Of Starlight and Midnight

by Isabella Zhou

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... Read More

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