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What a powerful read. That this book exists is a miracle: originally written for a contest in 1930s Eastern Europe (in what is now Poland and Lithuania), these six essays were among hundreds hidden from the Nazis multiple times and eventually discovered in a church in 2017.

Winter’s Orbit, by Everina Maxwell, is an intricately plotted blend of space opera, court intrigue, and slow-burn romance. When the death of Prince Taam threatens to destroy a peace treaty that protects the Iskat Empire from alien invaders, the Emperor attempts to salvage the treaty by arranging for her grandson, Prince Kiem, to marry Taam’s widower, Count Jainan.

When Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, opens, it’s 1867 and winter in Dove River,

An excellent and slightly supernatural story of revenge.

Ascendance of a Bookworm is a light novel series by Japanese author Miya Kazuki.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of Belle da Costa Greene, hired by J. P. Morgan to serve as the curator and librarian of his newly-constructed Pierpont Morgan Library.

Beasts of a Little Land is an epic saga set during Korea’s tumultuous history of Japanese occupation and the fight for Korean independence.

Here’s the set-up of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Noemi Taboada, a debutante livi

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson undertakes to hike the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail that runs from Georgia to Maine. Bryson enlists the help of an unfit friend, Katz, who can barely tackle a staircase. Together they meander along the trail meeting other people with the same goal. Statistics are clearly against them.

How to heal a broken heart?

Australian author, Trent Dalton, is back with another highly imaginative, beautiful yet gritty story full of memorable characters. 

Antebellum Virginia is the setting of this eloquently written historical novel by Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and the National Book Critics Award in 2003.