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The Stricken

by Clarissa Adkins

Morgan Shamy’s fantasy novel "The Stricken" introduces an atmospheric world in which people lead multiple existences. In one life, Clara’s only friend is a mysterious voice, Cael, that she’s heard in her mind her entire life. He... Read More

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After Camus

by Joseph S. Pete

In Jay Neugeboren’s contemplative novel, a marriage is haunted by French existentialist Albert Camus. Tolle is a dancer who meets Camus—an intellectual titan who’s portrayed in dynamic terms—at a Paris bistro just before his... Read More

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Traces of Enayat

by Meg Nola

Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on... Read More

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The Wild Ones

by Danielle Ballantyne

Available in both English and Spanish, this stylized picture book adds some comic book flair to its story of four friends fighting to save their home. Known as the Wild Ones, the diverse friends bond over their love of monsters; they... Read More

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The God of Wild Places

by Rebecca Foster

Tony Jones’s meditative memoir "The God of Wild Places" is about leaving the ministry but remaining alive to spirituality through outdoor adventures in Minnesota and further afield. It was Jones’s childhood ambition to become a... Read More

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River Mumma

by Julia Dillman

In Zalika Reid-Benta’s fantasy novel "River Mumma", a woman without a sense of direction reconnects to her heritage while on a quest. Alicia thought that, when she finished graduate school in New York, an opportunity in publishing... Read More

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Yaguareté White

by Matt Sutherland

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More

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