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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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Review: The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

Buy It Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The World and All That It Holds–in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory–showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. As … Continue reading

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Review: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Where to Buy: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence … Continue reading

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Review: The Resting Place by Camilla Sten

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological suspense from international sensation Camilla Sten. The medical term is prosopagnosia. The average person calls it face blindness—the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those … Continue reading

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Review: 40 by Alan Heathcock

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the award-winning author Alan Heathcock comes an American myth of the future: a vision of civil war, spectacle, and disaster of biblical proportions. In a future America ravaged by natural disaster, pandemic, and … Continue reading

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