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November 2018

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published November 2018.

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In Every Wave

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Piercing and compact, Charles Quimper’s novella "In Every Wave" follows a grief-consumed father through a vortex of regret and fragmented fantasies. Here, sorrow is an ocean, and lost possibilities lurk behind every swell. Spectral... Read More

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Mephisto's Waltz

by Meg Nola

Mephisto’s Waltz, a collection of short fiction by the late Mexican author Sergio Pitol, creates a world of eloquent transience, shifting from Mexico to Asia then into Warsaw, Ibiza, Bukhara, Vienna, Venice, and Rome. Pitol’s mastery... Read More

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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

by Karen Rigby

"Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" illuminates a slice of art history with ravishing acuity. Camille Laurens examines Marie van Goethem, the young model and dancer of Degas fame, in a tribute that melds research with quotations, intelligent... Read More

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Weregirl: Typhon

by Catherine Thureson

"Weregirl: Typhon" is a fast-paced, intelligent story about a young werewolf and the family she is trying to maintain. Nessa and her siblings, Delphine and Nate, have come to live with their eccentric billionaire father, Daniel, after... Read More

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Quantum Convention

by Susan Waggoner

Ready for the next new thing in fiction? You’ll find it in "Quantum Convention", wherein eight richly imagined, humanity-affirming tales lay new turf for short stories. The settings embrace everything from a world in which an eons-old... Read More

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Hope Rising

by Kristine Morris

For all those who have come to think of hope as an impotent wish, a vague, flimsy idea that things will be better in the future, this book brings good news: Hope is real. It’s measurable. It has life-saving power. And it can be... Read More

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The Book of Rumi

by Karen Rigby

Maryam Mafi’s luminous translation brings the Persian poet Rumi’s distinctive and timeless Sufi lessons to a new audience, transforming the original verses into prose that conveys the vibrancy of the medieval setting while also... Read More

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Fault Lines

by Angela McQuay

The death of a renowned volcanologist casts suspicion on his young lover in "Fault Lines", an edgy, atmospheric thriller. Surtsey is a young volcanologist. Her beloved mother is sick; she feels guilt over her relationship with her... Read More

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