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Somewhere in the pages of a self-help manual for aspiring murderers, there lies either the confession of a genuine serial killer or the most elaborate hoax Scotland Yard has ever encountered. That is the premise at the burning heart of How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson, a debut novel that announces its […]

In Kin by Tayari Jones, two baby girls sleeping in side-by-side dresser drawers in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, grow into women whose lives diverge as sharply as a river splitting at its delta, yet whose hearts remain tangled in a knot neither time nor distance can undo. This is the kind of novel that settles into your […]

A beautifully poignant novel about a sixteen-year-old’s experience as a military kid who must confront—and heal—tragedy in her family Merci is an Army kid, with both parents serving active-duty military. Because her mother is often deployed longer, Merci and her dad spend more time together and develop a close relationship by kayaking, connecting over art, […]

A collection that feels like a held breath, an ache that time does not heal but instead becomes something we learn to walk alongside “the daily sun and moon of being / a husband, a dad, a grandfather, / all of it seeming to demand a sea wall / of composure against an ocean of […]

 The rare wellness book that earns a skeptic’s shelf space. Think Like an Herbalist sits squarely on the “practical wellness” shelf, where anecdote, folk tradition, and selective research mingle. What follows is a cultural and textual review, not a clinical guide, but a down-to-earth study. South understands her audience; she knows her readers are exhausted […]

Kate Alice Marshall returns with a chilling psychological thriller that plunges readers into the depths of human darkness and the fierce will to survive. The Girls Before by Kate Alice Marshall weaves together two narratives that slowly converge into a devastating revelation about trauma, identity, and the lengths people will go to protect their secrets. […]