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Review: Bear by Marian Engel

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.’ – Margaret Atwood Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She … Continue reading

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Review: Sonic Life by Thurston Moore

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author’s life and art—from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, … Continue reading

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Review: The Night House by Jo Nesbo

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live … Continue reading

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Review: The Graveyard Shift by Maria Lewis

Buy it Here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: When a horror-loving radio show becomes the stage of a gruesome murder, its host Tinsel Monroe is put next on the killer’s list…— Tinsel Munroe’s dream of working in radio hasn’t turned out to … Continue reading

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Review: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi returns with Starter Villain, another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth. Inheriting your mysterious uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than … Continue reading

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Review: I Am My Country: and Other Stories by Kenan Orhan

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything” (Anthony Marra) explores the lives of ordinary people in Turkey to reveal how even individual acts of resistance have … Continue reading

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Review: Human Acts by Han Kang

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice. In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, … Continue reading

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Review: Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Gwendy’s Button Box brings his signature prose to this story of small-town evil that combines the storytelling of Stephen King with the true-crime suspense of Michelle McNamara. In the summer of … Continue reading

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Review: Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Blue skies, empty land—and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Adelaide Henry carries an … Continue reading

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Review: Monument Maker by David Keenan

Order it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: David Keenan is one of today’s most exciting, fearless, and entertaining writers. Monument Maker is his most daring book to date. Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there … Continue reading

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