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From the author of A Good Happy Girl, a lesbian screwball comedy following two exes who turn to online dating after their dramatic split—only to end up seeing the same woman.
The author of Holes returns with a magical adult debut about forbidden love and a kingdom on the brink of collapse.
"Magnolia Elie survives a mass shooting in which four people die. And then the problems start."
The opening chapter of the novel Dèy is harrowing. Magnolia Elie, huddled on the floor of a Caribbean-fusion restaurant called Oasis in Miami, is terrified. Serenaded by the gunshots of a twenty-one-year-old mass shooter, Magnolia prays not to ...
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September 09, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Dèy by Edwidge Danticat, The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon, and The Song of Stork and ...
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"In The Pirate Queen, Ariel Lawhon explores the legend of Grace O'Malley, Irish chieftain, pirate, mother, rebel—a woman too formidable to be contained, even by history."
The Pirate Queen starts with a powerful image—a young girl cutting off her braid in defiance—and ends with the same image many years later, only the girl is now a woman, the defiance has turned to resigned surrender, and the braid, once ...
A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about ...
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"A Beautifully Written and Accomplished Collection of 14 Stories"
This beautifully written and accomplished collection of 14 short stories by Alice Munro is truly extraordinary. Every story—every single one!—is excellent. Some are touching. Some are surprising. ...
A board game designer plays by her own rules in a darkly clever thriller about dating, rage, and revenge.
"An absorbing multigenerational family drama set against the backdrop of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill."
Stephanie Soileau's debut novel, Should the Waters Take Us, centers around three generations of a Cajun family living in the bayous of Southern Louisiana. Thirty-eight-year-old Boy Broussard is living hand-to-mouth, squatting in a broken-down trailer...
July 31, 2026
If you’re a regular reader of historical fiction, chances are you own at least a few books with images on their jackets of female-coded figures whose faces are obscured in some way. Book covers presumably depicting their women characters ...
"A Jesuit priest is sent by the Vatican to an isolated city-state to investigate a miracle in Natasha Pulley's mesmerizing The Salt King."
In the fictional Hreodwater, a sovereign microstate bordering England, the Hreoda people worship the Salt King: a sleeping god within the salt mine that gives the city its riches and has protected its culture for thousands of years. The King is the ...
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"When a true crime writer is stalked by someone who believes they are her child, it forces her to reckon with her complex feelings about her own late mother."
Forty-nine-year-old true crime writer Violet never had kids. She's never even been pregnant. So she's confused when she receives a note in her car that reads "hello, Mother." A couple more weird (and increasingly threatening) incidents make it clear ...
"In Claire Vaye Watkins' latest novel, a woman moves to a small town in the Mojave Desert in order to escape the exploitative capitalist horrors of modern life and celebrate the desert land."
In Clark County, Nevada, a five-thousand-acre solar array named Yellow Pine is being erected on public land in the Mojave Desert. A lay reader may unthinkingly consider the desert dead and empty, a perfect location for harnessing solar energy. But ...
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