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Historical Romance, Grumpy/Sunshine, & More

Julia Song is Undateable Julia Song is Undateable by Susan Lee is $1.99! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet. It’s a childhood friends to lovers contemporary romance. Have you read this one? CEO seeks dating coach Critically acclaimed and reader-favorite author Susan Lee’s hilarious adult debut is a shimmering and joyful look at […]

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Sally Rooney is Pulling Her Books From UK

Sally Rooney is pulling her books from the UK after the Normal People and Intermezzo author and her publisher agreed on the move. The statement from publisher Faber reads: Current legislation in the UK has led to circumstances where Faber cannot pass on UK earnings to Sally Rooney for her work. To sell a writer’s […]

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Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones

Eight hours out of Browning, at a truck stop in Williston, North Dakota, a young man who has spent four months in a hospital bed cannot make himself use a urinal. A trucker coughs in a stall. An old cowboy two places down finishes easily and leaves. Back in the camper, on the road again, […]

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Beau Scamp by C.M. Harris

An utterly charming romp of an impossible-to-put down queer historical romance Beau Scamp by C.M. Harris hits every mark a reader of queer historical romance could ask for. Is there a dashing highwayman? Is there ever. How about an intelligent, underestimated lady? Yes, indeed. And the plot? How does a multi-layered genderbending masquerade fueled by […]

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Burning Bright by John Steinbeck

Somewhere in the second half of Burning Bright by John Steinbeck a woman tells a man, very coldly, that she will do anything at all to bring her husband contentment, and instructs him to remember that she said it. She means it literally. She is already sure her husband can father no children, that the […]

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The Best Historical Fiction Set in the 1700s

The 18th century marked a historical period in which rapid changes occurred, especially in the rise and fall of empires as revolutions and Enlightenment ideals spread throughout the second half of the century. At the beginning of the century, Saint Petersburg was founded under Peter the Great, the Asante Empire rose in what is now […]

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The Broken Whistle by Pedro Israel Orta

When telling the truth is a career-ending act, who protects the whistleblower? There are few workplaces where the consequences of speaking out could be more serious than the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In The Broken Whistle: A Deep State Run Amok, Pedro Israel Orta offers a personal account of what happened when he did precisely […]

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📚 A big impact on the genre

October 14, 2026View Online | Join All Access | Listen The adaptation pipeline just got more interesting. The Black List has added unadapted titles from Spiegel & Grau to its discovery database, making it easier for film, TV, and theater industry professionals to identify adaptable properties. Spiegel & Grau is the first independent publisher to […]

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Links: Nature, Beverly Jenkins, & More

Welcome back! Thank you all for the batch cooking suggestions from last week. We plan to do a freezer clean-out soon to take inventory and free up some space. Things are also cooling off in New England, so it’s getting ready to be soup season anyway. I always anticipate my first batch of slow cooker […]

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America and Americans by John Steinbeck: A Book Club Review

Early in America and Americans by John Steinbeck a man named Jimmy, chief of a Piute band summering near Lake Tahoe, turns up at a trout hatchery in the snow and asks for a fish. He is given one. He puts it in a snowbank, strips, washes himself in the freezing stream, dresses, picks the […]