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The Heart Is a Star

by Brandon Pawlicki

Megan Rogers’s engrossing novel "The Heart Is a Star" dissects life, love, and truth. Layla, a troubled mother, wife, and anesthesiologist, navigates a turbulent life and an uncomfortable past. When her distant mother calls with... Read More

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Finding Normal

by Vivian Turnbull

Laden with symbolism, Jen Doktorski’s heartrending novel "Finding Normal" follows two teenagers with disordered eating on a cross-country road trip. Gemma is sick of living on the hospital’s eating disorder floor. Forced to do group... Read More

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The Anatomy of Exile

by Jaime Herndon

In Zeeva Bukai’s novel "The Anatomy of Exile", a Jewish Israeli mother struggles to reconcile herself to a tragedy from her past while watching a similar situation unfold for her own daughter. Tamar’s sister-in-law, Hadas, is killed... Read More

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Mean Low Water

by Brandon Pawlicki

In the thrilling novel "Mean Low Water", a Southern lawyer searches for her missing childhood friend with desperate hope. In Stephanie Alexander’s emotive novel "Mean Low Water", longtime friends who share a special gift experience... Read More

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Prodigal

by Joseph S. Pete

Phyllis Gobbell’s novel "Prodigal" tells a parabolic story of homecoming in a Southern small town. Connor, a preacher’s son, is cast adrift after becoming an accomplice in the Independence Day shooting of a convenience store clerk.... Read More

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