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The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston

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 […]

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The Memoir of a Student by Frederick David

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” […]

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Magnus and the Last Dragon by Jeremy D. Scholz

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 […]

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How to Check Your Sources: Book Censorship News, September 25, 2026

Doing your own research matters, but so, too, does checking your sources when you do that work. Source checking is a crucial skill, but it can be difficult, even for folks who are well-versed in it. The good news is you can always learn new techniques, and one of the most valuable tools at your […]

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Mazywood by Tananarive Due

One winter morning in 1958, a woman walks out of a lodge on Mount Shasta carrying an axe. The sign over her own driveway bears the name of the character that made her rich, engraved on a placard she paid a fortune for, and she swings at the left post until the wood gives. Her […]

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Sometimes I Scare Myself – A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose

Three dishes wrapped in foil are sitting on the porch when she opens the door. Nobody is there. There are no footprints in the snow, no tyre marks, no sound of anyone hurrying away. She decides they must be shy neighbours, the quietly decent Midwestern sort who believe food says everything a person needs to, […]

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Listen to an Exclusive Clip from Barack Obama’s Book Podcast

Former President and forever Reader-in-Chief Barack Obama’s podcast, A Great Book, dropped today on Audible. Each of the six episodes in the limited series features Obama in conversation a different thinker/writer/artist about a book that has “profoundly shaped his worldview and our society.” In the debut episode, Obama sits down with Tom Hanks to discuss […]

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The Determinists by Lawrence David Rose

The Determinists reopens the free will debate because what’s at stake could shape how we hold each other accountable. In this thought-provoking work of philosophical nonfiction, Lawrence David Rose takes on one of philosophy’s oldest questions: Do human beings genuinely possess free will, or are our thoughts and actions simply the inevitable byproducts of biology, […]

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The Munich Affair by James Patterson and David Ellis

A man takes a job washing pots in a restaurant cellar at one in the morning, because the night shift pays five marks a week more and he has a family. He is a police officer, recently demoted as far down the ladder as it goes, and a colleague asks why he bothers with this […]

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American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

A grey-haired woman who manages a video-rental shop comes into the luxury goods store three doors down, embarrassed to be there at all. Her only son is getting married. She has been putting money aside for his bride since before he had a girlfriend. The saleswoman shows her pearl studs first, then diamonds, and quietly […]