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Unshaming

by Joseph S. Pete

A follow-up to Drunk Mom, Jowita Bydlowska’s raw memoir "Unshaming" is about working to heal from alcohol addiction and the shame of relapse. About Bydlowska’s efforts to remain sober, setbacks, and the challenge of recovery, the... Read More

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What Am I, a Deer?

by Karen Rigby

Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

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King Coyote

by John M. Murray

In Rachael MeyersJones’s stirring novel "King Coyote", a city boy navigates the rugged Vermont wilderness and the even more treacherous landscape of his family’s dissolution. Twelve-year-old King is a “soup-brained zombie” of the... Read More

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Kill Dick

by pine breaks

Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel "Kill Dick" parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of... Read More

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Mount Verity

by Bella Moses

In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel "Mount Verity", a childhood tragedy alters the trajectory of an artist’s life. On Easter Eve in 1989, Hannah’s older brother Erik disappears during a midnight trip to a mountain with a mythic... Read More

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A Love Most Daring

by Vivian Turnbull

In Joanna Barker’s delectable Regency-era romance novel "A Love Most Daring", a scandal-embroiled young woman and a protective officer are drawn together by danger. Though cruel rumors follow Beatrice, she is hopeful she will find love... Read More

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The Gods in Small Doses

by Bella Moses

In Josh Bell’s short story collection The Gods in Small Doses, vibrant mythical and mundane characters face uncanny, darkly comic circumstances. These eccentric, poignant stories oscillate between moods, settings, and genres. They... Read More

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