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The Late Rebellion
by Willem Marx
Mark Powell’s brooding Southern novel "The Late Rebellion" dives into the psychology of a multigenerational South Carolina family whose members rage against the future and cling to the past. Richard, a bank founder, receives a call...
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Falcon in the Dive
A teenage spy falls for her sworn enemy and faces impossible choices in Leah Angstman’s novel "Falcon in the Dive". Ani’s comfortable childhood was cut short by the greed of the wealthy, merciless Beaumercy family. As the French...
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Alice B. Toklas Is Missing
by Meg Nola
In Robert Archambeau’s inventive novel "Alice B. Toklas Is Missing", a bizarre kidnapping mystifies the artistic circles of 1920s Paris. Ida Caine is an aspiring American painter living in Paris with her husband, Teddy. Though Teddy...
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Down the Steep
In A. D. Nauman’s unflinching bildungsroman "Down the Steep", a girl struggles with her morality during the civil rights movement. In 1963 Virginia, Willa wants nothing more than to impress her father. He happens to be an influential...
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The Penny Mansions
"The Penny Mansions" is a charming historical novel wherein lovable townspeople rally to save their home. In Steven Mayfield’s rollicking period novel "The Penny Mansions", a diverse group of eccentrics try to save their once-booming...
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The Proprietor's Song
by Leah Webster
A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring, Grace and Elwood Fisher drive the same route to Death...
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The Boy in the Rain
by Erin Nesbit
Set in Edwardian England, Stephanie Cowell’s novel "The Boy in the Rain" concerns the passionate romance between a painter and a divorced writer. After a traumatic exchange with his uncle, nineteen-year-old Robbie, who is failing in...