Three people stand at a gate in the wilds of a country that executes anyone born with magic. Above them, perched on a thirty-foot wall, sit winged stone creatures with hooded brows and full sets of teeth, shifting to lower ledges as the visitors talk. They have not been fed for some time. Each of […]
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A Houston garage, a day of chores, a seventeen-year-old shifting a stepfather’s boxes to the curb. Then a box that is not his: lid torn, a peppery smell coming out of it, and inside, under a few Russian horoscope pamphlets, a magazine she has seen exactly once before, when her mother showed it to her […]
Halfway through, there is a costume ball in a medieval cloister at the northern tip of Manhattan. The theme is Edith Wharton. A girl from a small town has come dressed in red, which in Wharton’s world is how a society marks a woman as finished; the boy who is in love with her has […]
A suspense-filled urban fantasy where three divergently willful women take an episodic trek across the American west to face a myriad of otherworldly entities Between aloof sword-wielding Clara Nordstern, hardened shotgun aficionado Selene Shields, and forensically-armed skeptic and science student Jill Hamilton, an eclectic trio forms—one that’s complementary in purpose, if not method. Their genesis […]
Thirty children walk out of the woods on a cold night, line up at the edge of a mountain village, and start to sing. Word spreads and the village comes out with lamps. Twenty-three people are certain they recognise a child who died. The children will not answer, will not move, and will not stop; […]
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi on November 11, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Romance / Small Town & Rural Pages: 400 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads I can definitely see why Theo of Golden has been so popular. This is one of those uplifting stories that reminds you […]
A sharp, ornate sword—a fantastical world of war, strategy, and beating impossible odds As a child, all Marcus knew was abandonment: from his family, his dreams, his own identity. Sent to the Capital Orphanage for Boys by his uncle, Marcus is raised under former soldier Varus, effectively conditioning him from childhood to become cannon fodder […]
A powerful memoir about family, identity, and the lifelong search for belonging Crushed Azaleas is a deeply reflective memoir in which Amal Moulik revisits his childhood and adolescence as the son of an Indian diplomat. Growing up across Japan, India, the United Kingdom, and Italy, Moulik experienced a life of constant movement and cultural exposure. […]
A woman stands in the aisle of a hardware store outside Atlanta, five months pregnant, deciding between lengths of garden stake. She settles on five of them, two and a half feet long, and adds a rubber mallet, a tool belt, a camping lantern and an ultraviolet torch. Then she straps the belt on and […]