Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Well, I think I was the real winner of our Summer Reading Retreat book exchange game! I ended up with Guess Again during our book exchange at our Summer Reading Retreat, and since Charlie Donlea was a new-to-me author, I really didn’t know what to expect. Now I guess […]
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A woman kneels in a dead garden on a cliff in winter and puts her bare hands into frozen mud. The vines have had years to dig in and they fight her; the thorns open her palms; the mud goes black under her nails. She has no gloves because she did not look hard for […]
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An elderly woman in Staten Island sits crocheting with five cats asleep on various parts of her body. Her grandson, a federal agent of forty who has not taken unplanned leave since a funeral eight years ago, paces her living room listing why nothing can happen with the man he has met. He is twenty-six. […]
Fifty feet up, in a city whose rulers would execute her for being inside it, a girl is inching along a branch that has started to creak. A spider crawls over her wrist and she cannot flick it away, because letting go means falling, and falling is the one thing she is genuinely afraid of. […]
Twice a day, an elderly woman walks from her neighbourhood down to the sea and back, and both times she passes a small stone house above a shuttered shopfront. For roughly twenty seconds she stops breathing. A longer route exists that would avoid the street altogether, and in fifty-four years she has never taken it. […]
The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston on June 16, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Paranormal / General, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Pages: 400 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads If you like a little magical realism with your romance, The Someday Garden is for you! I feel like I’ve […]
A quirky, genre-bending meditation on communication in all its forms The title of Frederick David’s The Memoir of a Student is, on the face of it, misleading. The work is a hodgepodge of genres that the word “memoir” fails to convey, and David, who returns to school following what he describes as years of “peripatetic” […]
A big-hearted fantasy adventure about belonging, self-acceptance, and what makes a home worth protecting Jeremy D. Scholz’s Magnus and the Last Dragon follows fourteen-year-old Magnus, a foster kid who’s never felt like he belongs. At six-foot-two, he’s nearly impossible to overlook, yet somehow, he still feels invisible. His foster family cares for him, but the […]