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The Twelve by William Gladstone
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Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
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Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
April 5, 2025Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
April 5, 2025The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
April 5, 2025Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
April 5, 2025She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
April 3, 2025Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
April 3, 2025On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
April 3, 2025Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...




