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Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.
Inspired by Agatha Christie's Detection Club, a murder mystery and second-chance romance collide.
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"Actor and pop culture addict Andrew joins a secret gay paramilitary organization, the Tuxedo Society, and wrangles terrorists, thieves, and potential romance."
The Tuxedo Society, much like membership in the titular organization, isn't for just anybody. In the novel, membership prerequisites include being queer—the main character, Andrew, and most of his coterie are gay men; two top members are women ...
"A famous but broke actress and her 20-year-old daughter struggle to understand one another."
Moon was once a Hollywood ingénue. Now that she's nearing 50, the roles have dried up, and she lends out her lavish home via a short-term rental site in order to pay the mortgage. She and her 20-year-old daughter, Stevie, live in the ...
Three women reshape their family's Napa Valley winery after the 1967 Summer of Love.
One exiled. One condemned. Two queens unite for revenge against Henry VIII.
"Journalist and screenwriter Emily St. James debuts with a big-hearted novel about community, support, and self-acceptance, focusing on a trans woman in small-town South Dakota."
Erica Skyberg is a popular English teacher and long-time community theater director, preparing to put on a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. She's more or less a pillar of the community, even if she prefers to keep a low profile. The only ...
Posting this a little early since I have jury duty early next week. Can’t wait. :roll_eyes: Penguin edition - Briggs translation - Black cover w/ chandelier: Volume 2, Part III, pp 453-532, chapters...
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"An Absolute Delight to Read! Charming, Entertaining, and Richly Imagined"
This book is everything—an original, clever story, quirky characters, and superior writing. It's also funny, as in laugh-out-loud funny and at the most unexpected times. I lost count of how many times...
A 1970s island wedding is threatened when a bride's sinister former cult resurfaces.
Nine linked stories reveal how globalization sparks life-changing consequences across continents.
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Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ...
A young woman joins forces with her late mother's fictional heroine to solve her murder.
"Nonfiction, poetry, and art combine in this dynamic, singular ode to the wonder of birds and to the beauty we stand to lose if more species become extinct."
The Book of Birds is the latest collaboration between writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris, whose works have celebrated and taken inspiration from various aspects of nature. In their new book, the duo profile 49 different bird species, ...
July 15, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 16 titles, including The Land and Its People by David Sedaris, Babylon, South Dakota by Tom Lin, and Mad Eden by...
"Ethan Joella's fourth novel is a meditation on grief and recovery."
Ethan Joella's novel The Top of the World centers on Chip Bishop, an eighteen-year-old with terminal leukemia. After his high school graduation in 1974, he leaves home without telling his family where he's going, eager to have new experiences...
“A tender, romantic drama that soars as high as it’s astronauts.” —Kate Quinn
"Tom Lin explores themes of family and culture in this captivating chronology of an immigrant Chinese couple starting a new life on a South Dakota farm."
As soon as Hsiu Keng and his wife Lee Mei arrive on American soil, we see their struggle of wanting to fit in while also holding on to their Chinese roots. To assimilate, they change their names to Saul and Mei. Saul still has a packet of ...
For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries...
July 7, 2026
It’s that time again. That time when we bring you a glimpse into the books we’re most excited about for the rest of the year, starting with the first ones publishing in July and looking ahead to December. 2026 has already been exciting ...
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