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A sweet story with big dreams, little paws, and one determined dachshund doctor Sometimes, the most qualified doctor in our lives is the one with four paws and an endless supply of determination. Lauria Kerr’s Paging Doctor Solomon is a hilarious, heartwarming anthropomorphic animal fantasy novel about a miniature dachshund with an enormous dream. Solomon […]

A moving story of friendship and devotion in the wake of a life-changing traumatic injury Robert Dyer’s poignant debut, A Small Memory delivers on a quietly powerful premise—that a friendship tested by tragedy can emerge as one of the truest forms of love. Set in Ohio in 1975, A Small Memory follows Mike Youngstown, an […]

For six months a retired teacher in Maryland tells everyone she meets that her son-in-law is in a Paris hospital recovering from a bad batch of bouillabaisse. She repeats it to neighbours, to her daughter’s bridesmaids, to a book group, to people who were at the wedding and want to know when he will be […]

A nine-year-old girl crouches in a lilac hedge on the night of the Hunter’s Moon, freezing, waiting to find out whether the thing everybody in town leaves cakes and coins for actually exists. Her family has swept the front steps, lit a candle, arranged the offerings on a plate and gone to bed with the […]

A frightened boy in a Rouen hospital house is told a story by the servant who raises him, about a bird whose feathers are made of light and whose name nobody can quite explain. He spends the next fifty years catching glimpses of it, at the edge of fields, above the Nile, in a Paris […]