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An ambitious exploration of holistic healing that blends modern science with ancient wisdom, encouraging readers to think critically about health, healing, and spirituality The human body possesses remarkable healing capacities. Throughout The Living Temple, author Mehul bridges the gap between modern neuroscience with ancient healing traditions, presenting the two as complementary rather than contradictory. The […]

Somebody once told me the cruellest thing you can do to a person is find them interesting. I did not understand that sentence until I read this book. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver opens on a woman sitting on a closed toilet seat at her husband’s promotion party, playing Candy Crush and deciding she is a […]

A feral retelling of Irish myth where survival requires carrying the dead into the future D. Firth Griffith’s The Way of Salmon Moon is the third book in the Rimwalker series, and it reads a bit like a nightmarish creation story.  A retelling of the Irish myth An Bradán Feasa (Salmon of Knowledge) through Paleolithic […]

A seemingly straightforward case for a cynical investigator turns sinister in this voicey horror novel. It’s December 1977, and Harvey is working as a private investigator in a rain-soaked New Æthelstan. Partnered with a suave French ex-special forces operative, Harvey is a cynical, hard-drinking, chain-smoking thug with a mysterious past, working out of a rundown […]

Ten years ago the sun cracked apart in the sky and fell. Nobody has seen a dawn since. Crops rotted, vampires came ashore, and humans learned to eat each other and call it practical. Into that permanent midnight walks Kyrene, a bounty hunter carrying a blade gifted by the goddess of justice, who has never […]

Synopsis: The past doesn’t wash away. It just freezes over. For fourteen years, Alex Neitzel has lived a life built on a foundation of silence and blood money. To the residents of Champaign-Urbana, he is a wealthy, solitary remote copywriter. To his teenage children, Sammy and Cecelia, he is a ghost—a cold, self-absorbed father who […]

A raw, profane, systems-minded dystopian novel about extinction, memory, control, and the ugly cost of calling survival “salvation” Salvation Reigned starts with an alarm bell: “Our clock is a countdown.” Travis James Peterson’s debut brings a former data scientist’s imagination to a violent and profane dystopian future where survival has become its own kind of […]

Artful and insightful—an accompanying character study and prequel to a timeless classic Classics are classics because they go on resonating generation after generation, and they continue to offer ground for succeeding writers to build upon. From Aeschylus to Madeline Miller, people have been reimagining and adapting the heroes of Homer, for example, for over two […]