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A Private Man

"The complex relationship between David, a priest, and Margaret, a theology professor, tests their faith, commitment, and dreams for the Catholic Church."

It is 1963 when Margaret Bendelow is hired to teach theology at a women's college in England. Her cognitive skill and understanding of theological complexities are exemplary. Her academic depth is noteworthy. At the beginning of her career, the ...

Feast

by Catherine Kurtz

In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.

Home

"A Contemplative Novel About Healing and Hope, Secrets and Confessions, Forgiveness and Understanding"

This is a quiet and contemplative book with very little plot; instead, it's a character study that is both profound and deeply sad. Like "Gilead" and "Lila," this novel philosophically examines life's...

Flashlight

A novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

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Summer's Never Over

by Darby Bozeman

A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.

Hot Air

"An unlikely friendship forms after a hot air balloon plummets into a backyard pool."

Single mother Joannie is finally putting herself out there. She's on her first date since her divorce several years earlier, eating dinner with fellow single parent Johnny in his backyard, when a hot air balloon with a man and woman aboard crash ...

Flashlight

"A far-reaching family drama with deep ties to Korean history."

In Susan Choi's Flashlight, ten-year-old Louisa, the daughter of a Japanese-born Korean man and a white woman from the American Midwest, is found unconscious on a beach in Japan—her father, who was walking with her through the dark, flashlight ...

The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans

Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as "a cause for celebration"—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to ...

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The Art Forger

by B. A. Shapiro

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire ...

A Pair of Aces

by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

Porcupines

"A charming dual-timeline story set in Hungary and America, about a young mother and her curious daughter."

Fran Fabriczki's debut novel, Porcupines, is a dual-timeline story set between 2001 and the 1980s. In the later timeline, in Los Angeles, Sonia is a single mother to her ten-year-old daughter, Mila. Sonia and Mila have a close relationship, as their ...

The Reimagining of Thornwood House

by Jaleigh Johnson

A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.

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A Q&A with Sarah Braunstein about her short story collection, Baby in a Box.

The Jellyfish Problem

by Tessa Yang

A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.

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When No One Else Will

by Amanda Skenandore

1940s Chicago nurse risks everything at an illegal women’s clinic during a high-profile trial of courage and sisterhood.

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Well-Read Black Girl Books & More: Diversity Projects in Publishing

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...

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May 20, 2026

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including A Private Man by Stephanie Sy-Quia, Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler, and All Them Dogs by...

Nightfaring

"A thoughtful, searching piece of nonfiction that explores the beauty and importance of our increasingly endangered night sky."

If you go out at night and look up at the sky, what do you see? It depends on where you are, but if you're like most people, you may not see very much. In the cities and the suburbs, the glow of streetlights, buildings, and other sources of ...

Seek the Traitor's Son

"In this blend of science fiction and fantasy, a prophecy changes the life of a soldier when it predicts that she may lead her nation to victory in its long war over control of Earth."

Life has always been a bit different for twenty-something Elegy Ahn, the protagonist of Veronica Roth's latest novel, Seek the Traitor's Son. Her mother is the Sword of Cedre, the nation's military leader, and her father is a bounty hunter, so she's ...

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