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The Stark Beauty of Last Things

by Elaine Chiew

Céline Keating’s lush, elegiac novel "The Stark Beauty of Last Things" limns Montauk in stunning prose and highlights loss, the transience of home, and the impermanence of human affections. Revolving around a prized land parcel... Read More

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Marty Glickman

by Meg Nola

Jeffrey S. Gurock’s "Marty Glickman" is an encompassing biography of the athlete, sportscaster, and mentor. Born in 1917, Glickman grew up in New York’s Bronx and Brooklyn neighborhoods. A star high school athlete, he was recruited... Read More

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Ashes and Stones

by Catherine Thureson

Allyson Shaw traverses Scotland, visiting historical sites and memorials, in her meaningful book "Ashes and Stones". Focused on the women who were accused of witchcraft in Scotland in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Shaw... Read More

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The Lost and the Blind

by Joseph S. Pete

Curtis Smith’s lyrical novel "The Lost and the Blind" captures the plights of an addict’s son and a father serving a life sentence in prison. Mark is a disadvantaged teenager who seeks to rise above his hardscrabble upbringing in the... Read More

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Olive

by Danielle Ballantyne

In this wordless retelling of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” a young girl meets a giant—and discovers the giant within herself. When a towering beanstalk sprouts overnight in Olive’s yard, she climbs into the world of a giant;... Read More

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Yara

by Michelle Anne Schingler

A young woman with voracious appetites wonders if she is a victim, vixen, or somewhere in between in Tamara Faith Berger’s libidinous novel "Yara". At fifteen, Yara’s mother gifted her a new nose; she was ungracious. Two weeks later,... Read More

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Lilith

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Roaring through a divine origin story with righteous feminist fury, "Lilith" demands a revision of what many think of as the truth. Lilith was not made for Adam—they were made for one another. Once, Adam knew this. But he began to... Read More

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