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A loving, poetic book about how it’s okay to cry Everybody cries. It’s not so hard for little ones to let those tears fall, overcome with so much emotion they can’t understand or control, but it’s trained out of us as we grow. Kids picking on other kids being vulnerable, coaches and parents telling them […]

When a woman offers Denver’s residents the chance to be heard, stories spill out. Moving from Tennessee to Denver, from southern hospitality and close-knit communities to a place where residents are polite but distant with “big-city banter” that doesn’t quite cut it, Kelly feels a gap. She wants to know Denver on a deeper level. […]

When the first book in this trilogy ended with a woodchipper and a severed head in a bird feeder, you already knew the sequel wasn’t going to whisper. Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver opens with a defrosted body on a tarp, a raven mocking everyone in his perfect impersonation of his owner’s voice, and a […]

A sharp exploration of danger, discipline, and the fragile illusion of calm Chasing Tsegi Winds is not a book you read half-heartedly; it demands careful attention to be fully appreciated. This memoir follows William Olive, a Vietnam War veteran turned balloonist and adventurer, whose deep love for geography and evident respect for the Navajo (Diné) […]

Bold, defiant, subversive, meditative Ana is a woman like any other—a mother, a career woman, a sister, a daughter. She moves through the world gracefully, orderly, giving away no reason to suspect the yearning within her, the secret desires that grow more ravenous by the day. That is, until she meets Gabriel and steps into […]

A book like Partita by Barbara Kingsolver arrives every few years and earns its place on the shelf the slow way, one sentence at a time. It is patient where most contemporary novels are hurried, and it asks of the reader something more like attention than excitement. Kingsolver’s eighteenth book of fiction, following her 2022 […]

Mary Helen Dunagin spent decades collecting Lladró figurines and quietly stashing twenty-dollar bills in a Chock Full O’Nuts coffee can. After her funeral in Savannah, her two estranged daughters discover she also gave away her life savings to a slick televangelist named Brother Jerome and mortgaged the family house to do it. What she left […]