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An inspiring reminder that the greatest journeys are not measured in miles traveled but in knowledge gained Carol McIlwain’s Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins (Volume 1) is part travel memoir, part practical guide, and part reflection on lifelong learning. Rather than simply recounting a series of vacations, McIlwain sets out to explore what […]

An easy-going story collection that embraces slice of life humor and emotional depth Bag o’ Goodies is a grounded, contemplative collection that runs a wide gamut. The short fiction is textured with sprinkles of humorous verse in between, the poems like pieces of fairground taffy—both fun and a little sticky. Each story captures an organic, […]

Ramona Wilder walks into her first college lecture having already scraped her professor’s car in the parking lot and called a classmate something unprintable. It is a cold open worthy of a season premiere, and it tells you exactly what kind of ride Extracurricular by Rachel Lynn Solomon is going to be: sharp, a little […]

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A deeply intimate fantasy shaped by grief, coercion, and the longing to live beyond imposed roles “Everything in the waking world is muted. Insignificant. It hardly feels real. How can anyone stand it?” In Cass Henderson’s The Liminal Room, the first in the Phoenix Awakening series, dreams are not an escape from reality. Instead, they […]

A shocking, violent, chaotic story of a cryptid lurking in the southern Illinois woods In a southern Illinois town called Makanda in 1973, a string of brutal deaths ravages the area. The local police blame the recent killings on a particularly aggressive mountain lion, instituting a curfew for the town’s residents.  But when the Sheriff’s […]

Some thrillers whisper. This one walks in on six-inch heels, drops a body on the marble, and dares you to look away. Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead takes the shiniest corner of Los Angeles, the world of rising singers and models and the powerful men who prey on them, and turns it into […]

An insightful memoir about compulsive behavior, self-discovery, and the enduring possibility of change Aimee Zaring’s Cutting Loose: My Journey from Survival Mode to Embodied Flow is part memoir and part exploration of somatic healing. In the book, Zaring recounts her struggle with trichotemnomania, a little-known compulsive disorder characterized by the repetitive cutting or shaving of […]

Content warnings: Sexual relationship with a minor A refined, edgy take on a rock & roll band’s attempts to break into the mainstream Tear Here follows the story of Some Assault, a group composed of recalcitrant high schoolers and their headstrong, charismatic drummer Liddy. The narrative is a bittersweet tale of an ensemble in transition […]