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Murder in Old Bombay, by Nev March, is a layered mystery, involving complicated questions of loyalty and identity, with fun…
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The Girls Are All So Nice Here, by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, is an unsettling, dual-timeline suspense novel. Ambrosia's keeping some…
The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah, is an emotional epic, all about the life in the Dust Bowl and American…
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The Virtues of Scandal: A Novel of Lord Byron by Richard Henry Abramson takes readers through bedrooms, battles, and Parliament…
In The Wife Upstairs, by Rachel Hawkins, Jane, a former foster kid, is a dog-walker for several families in the…
In Maia Sepp's novella An Etiquette Guide to the End Times, Olive writes a blog answering etiquette questions for well-mannered…
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Good Girls Lie is about the secrets of the privileged young women at the Goode Academy in rural Virginia. This…
Planting Wolves, by Neda Disney, is a collection of linked short stories. "Planting wolves" refers to releasing small groups of…
The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen is a collection of short stories of love, identity and internet. Each character is…
Do you know how much I wanted to read Philippa Gregory's new novel Tidelands? I requested it on NetGalley, but then…
I was first attracted to Pretty Guilty Women on NetGalley because I thought it was a Liane Moriarty novel, Truly Madly Guilty, so…
When we first meet her, Jamaican-British Queenie is facing a breakup, or rather not facing a breakup by pretending she and…
An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, is an absorbing psychological thriller that begins with an ethics "study" and…
Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside by Quincy Carroll tells the story of two very different expats…
Summer's Complaint was described as a medical investigation, but I found it was much more of a family memoir. I…
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I almost always read comics as trades. Sometimes comics fans will tell me that I should stop waiting for the…
Chicken Hero by Uyi Osifo begins with young Uyi (called Zack in what is otherwise an autobiography) playing with his siblings,…
In the short story collection Sour Pricks, Mari Reiza introduces us to dark or dreary turning points in life, to…
The Spring Girls by Anna Todd is a modern retelling of Little Women, which is, let's be honest, every little girl's…