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A Light on the Magdalena

by Anna Maria Colivicchi

A girl works to break free from her family’s restrictions in the musing coming-of-age novel "A Light on the Magdalena". In Junelle M. Preston’s coming-of-age novel "A Light on the Magdalena", a girl tries to find her place in the... Read More

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Ten Thousand Rocks

by Eileen Gonzalez

A rocky marriage is tested in the wake of a devastating accident in the reflective novel "Ten Thousand Rocks". A couple’s troubled marriage undergoes further challenges in Ndirangu Githaiga’s novel "Ten Thousand Rocks". Will is... Read More

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The Maenad’s God

by Aimee Jodoin

Mystical, lyrical, and inhabited by gods, "The Maenad’s God" is a surprising supernatural love story. Karen Michalson’s esoteric dark fantasy novel "The Maenad’s God" bridges the gap between gods and mortals with the love story of... Read More

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Visions of Johanna

by Aimee Jodoin

"Visions of Johanna" is a somber literary coming-of-age novel in which a man confronts his repressed emotions in the midst of a tumultuous relationship. In Peter Sarno’s novel "Visions of Johanna", a man falls in love with a troubled... Read More

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Saturnalia

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Stephanie Feldman’s novel "Saturnalia" is a twisted, ethereal dispatch from a climate change point of no return. Nina was born in a row house in Philadelphia, in a time of submerged coastal cities and tornadoes tearing through towns.... Read More

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The Animals

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Cary Fagan’s "The Animals" is a gentle burlesque in which bureaucratic whims alter the downward trajectory of a nondescript, struggling tourist town. After the brief defiance of a semester spent studying architecture, Dorn succumbed to... Read More

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