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Youth Fiction

Sep 11, 2024

Boy 2.0. By Tracey Baptiste. Oct. 2024. 304p. illus. Algonquin, $16.99 (9781643753812). Gr. 7–10. Understated at the start, Win “Coal” Keegan is transported from one foster home to another. After living in a home with only a single foster parent, Coa

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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Winterson, Lerner, Díaz, Walbert, and More

Oct 1, 2019

New Ben Lerner, August Burroughs's latest memoir, and a reimagination of Frankenstein that puts Mary Shelley’s creative process front and center. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Winterson, Lerner, Díaz, Walbert, and More appeared first on The Millions.

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Get Ready To Read!

Jan 19, 2024

BY ALEX MICHAELIDES Michael Joseph “There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island. One of us was a murderer . . .” Former movie star Lana Farrar invites a select group of friends and family to holiday with her on her private island in Greece.

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TWISTS & TURNS

Jun 9, 2023

BY VICTORIA WALTERSHERA Nancy Hunter and her grandmother, Jane, have a new case to solve. The two amateur detectives and owners of Dedley End’s crime bookshop are trying to figure out once and for all what happened to Nancy’s mother, Samantha. For y

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What To Read?

May 26, 2023

BY ELEANOR CATTON GRANTA Described by one critic as “a Kiwi Jonathan Franzen”, this fantastic novel explores what happens when a hippie collective clashes with a ruthless billionaire. Mira and Shelley run Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening group tha

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Adult Fiction

Aug 7, 2024

Blue Sisters. By Coco Mellors. Sept. 2024. 352p. Ballantine, $28.99 (9780593723760); e-book (9780593723777). The three remaining Blue sisters are estranged and living very different lives. Avery is the oldest and has always cared for her sisters. She

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Latest Releases

Feb 19, 2021

A woman with terminal cancer makes a decision: instead of letting the disease take its course, she wants to end her life on her terms and she asks a friend to be with her when she does it. I must admit I started reading this book with a sense of trep

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Books Of The Month

Aug 19, 2022

By Bradley Somer Ben is a ranger who watches over the last surviving grizzly bear, in a climate-ravaged future in which most of humanity has departed the Earth. When a trio of trophy hunters turns up, Ben must protect his charge, and soon himself. Wh

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Get Lost In These Pages

Jan 7, 2022

This collection of short stories by the talented Nesbø, author of the fabulous Harry Hole novels, is divided into two themes. The first centres on jealousy and part two on power. The settings shift from London to Milan, from New York to Botswana, and

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Book Club

Mar 11, 2020

In this evocative tale of two lost souls forming a life-changing connection, Linda Green has crafted her characters with very careful attention and created a novel that really resonates. Sensitive 10-year-old Finn and 59-year-old cafe worker Kaz are

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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Spencer, Phillips, and More

Jun 16, 2020

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of  Scott Spencer, Lucie Britsch, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, and more—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Spencer, Phillips, and More appeared first on The Millions.

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Storytime!

Dec 15, 2022

By MIRANDA SMITH Farshore This is the ultimate gift for any dinosaur-obsessed kid: from the ferocious tyrannosaurus to gentle giant titanosaurus, this gorgeous book allows readers to dip in each day of the year to discover a new dinosaur. You’ll fin

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Adult Fiction

Jan 24, 2024

By Russell Banks. Mar. 2024. 224p. Knopf, $28 (9780593536773); e-book (9780593536780). The late Banks was our chief chronicler of the working class, the patron saint of the blue collar. This collection of three stories returns to the memorable haunt

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November’s BOOK CLUB

Sep 29, 2022

The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke (£14.99, HB, Harper Collins) Celebrate spooky season with this gothic thriller. When Pearl Gorham arrives at Lichen Hall in 1965 to have her baby, she knows immediately something is amiss. The Whitlocks are a troubled fam

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Books Of The Month

Oct 14, 2022

HellSans By Ever Dundas That one person’s heaven can be another’s hell is brilliantly and graphically depicted in this novel set in a near-future Britain. The general population is in a near-constant state of bliss induced by a typeface used on all s

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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Russell, Wang, Hanif, Greene, and More

May 14, 2019

The books we're looking forward to reading next, including stories of contemporary China, Karen Russell's latest, and a stunning memoir about loss and love. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Russell, Wang, Hanif, Greene, and More appeared first on The Millions.

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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Allende, Smith, Eisenberg, Cummins, Chayka, and More

Jan 21, 2020

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Isabel Allende, Danez Smith, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Jeanine Cummins, Kyle Chayka, and more—that are publishing this week. Want to learn more about upcoming titles? Then go read our most recent book preview. Want to help The Millions keep churning out great books coverage? Then sign up to be a member today. A Long … The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Allende, Smith, Eisenberg, Cummins, Chayka, and More appeared first on The Millions.

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Gripping Reads

Sep 22, 2023

By SAM BECKBESSINGER and DALE HALVORSEN Jonathan Ball In 1996, three teenage girls went into the woods outside the remote small town of Little Hope, California. They were looking for a legendary lost gold mine. Three days later, two of them stumbl