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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]