A haunting, richly-textured supernatural thriller about violence as inheritance and the line between control and love The safest weapon in Joseph Stone’s The Haunted Women trilogy is literacy. For more than two centuries, the ghost of Daedrian Crow has haunted the women in Fran Tarantino’s bloodline, claiming them as his own. He watches them, sleeps […]
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Before he sails, the boy in Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck is sent up a crag to speak with an old man who may or may not be Merlin. The verdict comes back in two parts, and both are insults dressed as prophecy. Greatness is coming to him, the old man says, precisely because […]
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Vasmora by Keri Lake
In a cell so dark that Maevyth cannot tell whether her eyes are open, her fingers find grooves in the stone floor. They are letters, cut deep by someone who came before her, and she traces them one word at a time: “I will not obey. I will not beg for mercy.” Up in the […]
The girl behind the desk at the Foxhollow Humane Society has a tired, practised smile, the kind worn by someone who has watched a great many visitors walk past the back kennels. Claire Ashford does not ask for a puppy. She asks which animal has been there longest, and the girl takes her to a […]
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Blueland by Robert Jaxx
A gritty, hopeful journey across Civil War America Blueland captures the courage, survival, and loyalty of those who fought and endured through one of America’s toughest and most defining periods. Told largely through dialogue and featuring an extensive cast, this story explores the devastating cost of war; the fight against injustice, including antisemitism and racism; […]
Somewhere over the Eversea, on a stormship with no maid aboard, a young empress realises she cannot get out of her own dress. The row of buttons down her spine defeats her, and the only person on the ship she can ask is the husband who has barely spoken to her in days. He undoes […]
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Once, Again, Always by Amanda Gayle
The welcome mat is the first thing Molly Graham recognises. She bought it at a craft fair before college, with cat silhouettes running along its border, and dragged it from dorm to dorm, and now it lies outside an apartment she has no memory of renting. Inside, the living room is jammed with antiques: two […]
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Books about the home front
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