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Aeneid

by Sébastien Luc Butler

Engaging, swift, and immersive, Gerald J. Davis’s translation of "Aeneid" keeps the poetry alive inside the vessel of prose. Gerald J. Davis’s new translation of Virgil’s classic poem "Aeneid" is both inventive and traditional.... Read More

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Vu

by Brendan McKelvy

Epic in scope, the literary novel "Vu" is made up of woven-together historical tales used to deliver a thorough picture of the past. Using the framework of Arabian Nights, Kenneth Sinclair’s literary novel "Vu" is a history of the... Read More

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Uplift

by Karen Rigby

The notion that all creatures have the capacity to do either harm or good is exemplified in the ecoconscious novel "Uplift". In Jessica Mann’s delicate allegorical novel "Uplift", a bird living in the Anthropocene comes of age and... Read More

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Hereafter

by Yelena Furman

Two souls from different earthly eras make their way toward eternal life together in the sweet novel "Hereafter". A man learns to navigate the afterlife in Jackson Eaton’s inventive novel "Hereafter". Thirty-year-old Benjamin is a... Read More

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Hothouse Bloom

by Caroline Goldberg Igra

In Austyn Wohlers’s emotive novel "Hothouse Bloom", a woman steps away from human interactions to draw closer to nature, seeking healing. Anna, a painter, inherits her grandfather’s orchard. Although it is a foreign space to her, she... Read More

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The Salvage

by Isabella Zhou

In Anbara Salam’s chilling novel "The Salvage", a marine archaeologist hunts down lost artifacts and ghosts in frigid waters. On the cusp of 1963, Marta performs a dive in remote Cairnroch to photograph local hero Captain James’s... Read More

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Meridian Rising

by Kristen Rabe

"Meridian Rising" is Paul Burch’s inventive, entertaining historical novel about influential American singer and musician Jimmie Rodgers. Rodgers, with his distinctive “blues yodeling” style, influenced American blues, folk, and... Read More

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