New Books in Literature
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Isobel O’Hare, "all this can be yours" (Univers...
Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...
55 min
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Mike Chen, "Here and Now and Then" (MIRA, 2019)
Mike Chen’s debut novel Here and Now and Then (MIRA, 2019) is a portrait of patience...
34 min
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Kate Quinn, "The Huntress" (William Morrow, 2019)
Ian Graham, a British war correspondent, is chasing an escaped Nazi known only as die Jaegerin, the Huntress...
42 min
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Nicole Walker, "Sustainability, A Love Story" (...
Walker faces the challenges of sustainability with deep humor, deeper insight, and an abiding sympathy for what it means to be all-too-human in your love for other humans and the struggling earth we all share...
52 min
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Megan Burns, "Basic Programming" (Lavender Ink,...
Building from her brother's death and journeying through her grieving process, Burns guides readers into her heart and back out...
30 min
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Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press 2018)
66 min
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James Rollins, "Crucible" (William Morrow, 2019)
On one side of the conflict is a secret sect, the Crucibulum...
38 min
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Caitlin Hamilton Summie, "To Lay to Rest our Gh...
An 8-year-old awaits her father’s return from the war...
22 min
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Micah McCrary, "Island in the City" (U Nebraska...
As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...
43 min
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Pam Jenoff, "The Lost Girls of Paris" (Park Row...
Although World War II has long been a favorite subject in both literature and history, a new interest seems to have developed in the multiple roles played by women during the war...
27 min
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Yang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Book...
"The Night Tiger" is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a historical novel, and a love story...
47 min
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Marshall Ryan Maresca, "The Way of the Shield" ...
Dayne has the highest respect for the order he’s joined, the Tarians...
28 min
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Tom Sweterlitsch, "The Gone World" (G.P. Putnam...
The book opens with a brutal murder and a search for a missing girl, and maintains the pace of a chilling page-turner...
35 min
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Stephen Evans, "The Island of Always" (Time Bei...
Minneapolis environmental attorneys Nick Ward and Lena Grant are no longer partners in law or marriage, but their lives are still strongly intertwined.
28 min
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Terry Gamble, "The Eulogist" (William Morrow, 2...
When Olivia Givens and her family leave Ireland in 1819, they have no idea that they are distant victims of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia four years before...
38 min
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Catherynne M. Valente, "Space Opera" (Saga Pres...
Shunning science fiction’s typical seriousness, Space Opera strives to be as ridiculous—and funny—as possible...
41 min
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Ivy Johnson, "Born Again" (The Operating System...
The poetry and prose in Ivy Johnson’s Born Again (The Operating System, 2018) beautifully dives into the ecstatic expression of religious experience.
35 min
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Shanthi Sekaran, "Lucky Boy" (G. P. Putnam's So...
An optimistic young Mexican woman gets pregnant while trying to cross the border into the states...
31 min
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P. K. Adams, "The Greenest Branch" (Iron Knight...
The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was a remarkable woman by any standards...
36 min
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Peng Shepherd, "The Book of M" (William Morrow,...
The pandemic in Peng Shepherd’s debut novel, The Book of M, starts with magic—the disappearance of a man’s shadow....
23 min
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Laura Catherine Brown, "Made by Mary" (C and R ...
It’s 1999, and Ann is a guitar-playing thirty-year-old preschool teacher who dreams of having children even though she was born without a uterus...
27 min
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James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story...
This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production.
36 min
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Bina Shah, "Before She Sleeps" (Delphinium Book...
Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps (Delphinium Books, 2018) is set in a near-future Pakistan where a repressive patriarchy requires women to take multiple husbands and become full-time baby makers after wars and disease render women devastatingly scarce...
28 min
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Lauren C. Teffeau, "Implanted" (Angry Robot, 2018)
Emery, Em for short, is a smart and dedicated college graduate. She anticipates a future in which she, and eventually, her parents, can escape the lower strata of the domed city of New Worth...
35 min
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Erica Trabold, "Five Plots" (Seneca Review Book...
When you picture the midwestern United States, what do you see? For those who live on either coast, the phrase “flyover country,” might come to mind....
41 min