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PROJECT ÜBERMENSCHUnsuspecting sailors aboard the USS Eldridge in 1943 are the subjects of an experiment conducted by the United States Navy in which their ship...
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SLEEPAWAYThis slim, artful novel by Prufer, a poet, imagines a world consumed by a peculiar viral phenomenon—communities are struck by the “Sinaloan...
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CAMERON AND THE SHADOW-WRAITHSAfter 12-year-old Cameron Poole arrives at Camp Pontchartrain in Louisiana, his anxiety kicks in. Last summer, he and his friends in the Order...
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THE PASSThe story opens on a man named Jacob Long, who’s carrying his infant daughter in a blizzard, encountering a great beast called a skinwalker,...
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WAKE ME MOST WICKEDLYThis is the second in Grossman’s series of gender-swapped fairy tales that began with Marry Me by Midnight (2023). Hannah Moses’ parents died...
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BLUE TO THE SKYElla remembers certain incidents with embarrassment—most notably an episode in kindergarten that resulted in her mother deciding to home-school...
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A SUPREME COURT UNLIKE ANY OTHERPolitical scientist McMahon opens with the most consequential single Supreme Court decision in our time: Dobbs , which overturned Roe v. Wade...
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THIS IS A WINDOWThe tots in this book embark on wild flights of fancy. The space between two coats in a closet becomes a window. A bookshelf with stuffed...
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A DRY HEATThis compilation includes works previously published in various literary magazines (including the Blue Mesa Review ) and journals, such as the...
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UNNIEOn April 16, 2014, the ferry MV Sewol capsized off the coast of South Korea, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 passengers, including...
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FOG & FIREFLIESFourteen-seasons-old Ogma guards the walls surrounding her village, like all the children who live there do. They keep a dense fog at bay, one...
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MANGO MEMORIESAs the family walks to the mango tree, the young narrator is thrilled: She’s finally old enough to help pick them. Her brother tells her that...
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A CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HISTORYHirahara starts by discussing how college students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee coined the term Asian American in 1968; she also defines the...
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THE TWITTER GOSPELSReligion can engender feelings of anxiety about the constraints of church doctrine as followers mature into their understandings about life and...
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THE HEMLOCK QUEENLore, Bastian, and Gabe are all still alive following the events in The Foxglove King (2023), despite a ritual meant to take Lore’s life and...
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PATTERNS OF THE HEART“When would the day arrive when he didn’t feel like howling in sadness?” That’s the bleak situation facing Sangjin, a writer who’s fled to the...
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THE WEIGHT OF NATUREIn his second book, neuroscientist and environmental journalist Aldern examines the palpable effects of climate change on our brain chemistry,...
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WHAT CAME AFTERThe author explores trauma, memory, and mental illness in this body of poems. He begins by lamenting, “The years reveal a tally of losses”...
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THE BEST SPOT TO PEE IN NYCThe author biography hints that this South Korean import is inspired by Lee’s actual dog, though the real Dutch is probably neither magenta nor...
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TEENAGE DIRTBAGSAt New Jersey’s Moorestown High, Jackson Pasternak is the golden boy from the town’s most affluent neighborhood. Phil Reyno is the antagonistic...
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I'LL GIVE YOU A REASONIn the opener, “Great American Scream Machine,” a teenager named Eva uncovers a secret her parents have kept since she was born: her...
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SOMEHOW“What are we even talking about when we talk about love? What is it?” So asks Lamott on the first page of her latest book, and she goes on to...
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A REALLY STRANGE AND WONDERFUL TIMEMaxwell, a former member of Squirrel Nut Zippers and a capable writer, came up in a musical milieu kickstarted by R.E.M., from not-so-far-away...
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NOT JUST THE DRIVER!Snappy rhyming verse introduces the question: “Who guides floating fleets with ease / and water-travel expertise? / Who checks weather, minds...
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DANCING ON THE EDGE“The breadth of my career practically spans the history of cinema itself,” writes Tamblyn (b. 1934) in this genial if sometimes defensive...
