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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 […]

Some books grow teeth as you read them. The Children by Melissa Albert is one of those books, a Gothic-tinged literary horror about siblings whose mother turned their childhood into a publishing empire, and the bill that comes due years after she died in the fire that should have killed them too. This is Albert’s […]