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"Lisa Lee explores the Korean American experience through the eyes of Jane, a floundering law student struggling to live up to her parents' expectations. When her brother commits a horrific act, family tensions resurface."
The Korean word "han" is generally defined as a feeling that encapsulates sorrow, resentment, grief, and loss of identity. Han is born from years of systemic suffering—occupation, war, displacement—and seeps into the daily lives of ...
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce...
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
"A brother and sister make a living conducting Spiritualist hoaxes, but the tables are turned when they discover a real mystery at The Coterie."
As soon as I finished We Could Be Anyone I grabbed my phone to text three friends who love YA fantasy. "You will love this. Trust me," I wrote to each. One asked what it was about: "A brother and sister stage fake hauntings at fancy hotels and then ...
In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
June 24, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, and Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. We ...
A conversation with Dave Eggers on Contrapposto.
"A young woman grapples with loss after her twin sister goes missing in a mysterious spiritual realm."
When the parents of twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia divorce, each takes primary custody of one daughter. Though both girls are growing up Black in the Midwest, their upbringings could not be more different. Their mother raises Olivia as a devout ...
Joan Kingsley tells us about The Bookies, a book club she formed at the First Presbyterian Church of Oyster Bay in Long Island, New York.
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Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
Three women reshape their family's Napa Valley winery after the 1967 Summer of Love.
Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.
"During the Ordnance Survey of the 1800s, Tomás and his son Liam have left their home in Dublin to map a remote peninsula of Ireland. When Tomás has an unsettling encounter in a copse, Liam is unnerved by the change in his father."
On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up...
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"Karmela Padavic-Callaghan's debut book Entangled States explores identity, memory, and uncertainty through physics, blending quantum mechanics with a deeply personal memoir."
Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics is not your typical pop-sci book. Authored by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, a science journalist and writer who has worked with major magazines like New Scientist, it beautifully blends quantum ...
May 24, 2026
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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A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years—a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the ...
"A 10-Star Book in a 5-Star World: A Deeply Resonant Novel About Human Connections and Loneliness"
Oh, this book. This is a ten-star book in a five-star world! Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout, this is a novel for our times—our angst-filled political times when the world ...
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"Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz explores the ethics of prediction, drawing on historical examples and a magnetic writing style to make the case for caution in the age of AI."
It's difficult to overstate how much of our daily life is shaped by prediction. From the mundane (checking the weather before getting dressed; deciding which route to take to work to avoid traffic) to the massive (credit scores; election polling) ...
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