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Jane's Cure

by Karen Rigby

Disagreements regarding women’s autonomy lead a midwife toward danger in the hopeful historical novel Jane’s Cure. A Canadian midwife’s controversial help with terminating pregnancies inspires D. K. Kennedy’s fascinating... Read More

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Three Lives

by John M. Murray

A man who’s capable of reincarnation recalls his past lives, looking for connections between them, in the musing novel "Three Lives". In Yank Shi’s novel "Three Lives", a reincarnated man with past-life memories reflects on his... Read More

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Old Scores

by Cierra Taylor

"Old Scores" is a sanguineous vampfest of a novel—supple with fantastic, horrific, and amorous elements. Moody, bloody, and set against the frigid background of modern, wintry Chicago, A. J. Harrison’s fantasy novel "Old Scores"... Read More

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The Caltrap Murders

by Chloe Clark

A surprising serial killer goes up against an atypical detective in the thrilling novel "The Caltrap Murders". A serial killer uses a medieval method to terrorize New York City in Howard Bruce Weiner’s mystery novel "The Caltrap... Read More

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Visions of Destiny

by Eileen Gonzalez

Bittersweet and troubling, "Visions of Destiny" is a fantasy novel in which a gifted boy cannot escape what the future has in store for him. In Edward R. Lipinski’s fantasy novel "Visions of Destiny", a reluctant clairvoyant muddles... Read More

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The Girl in the Water

by Chloe Clark

Intentional and poetic, the historical novel "The Girl in the Water" follows a Soviet Union coming-of-age. Joseph Howse’s charming bildungsroman "The Girl in the Water" is set in Ukraine in the 1980s; in it, an observant girl becomes... Read More

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Daughter of a Promise

by Isabella Zhou

Women storytellers and communal bases of women’s knowledge undergird a woman’s year of self-discovery in New York in the intimate novel "Daughter of a Promise". In Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg’s coming-of-age novel "Daughter of a... Read More

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