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Kelly McWilliams shares AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, a deeply affecting work of historical thriller and horror that follows a light-skinned Black man working undercover for the NAACP to investigate violent lynchings in the Jim Crow South.
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Salon Rose had the entire world ahead of her. Then she was murdered. Told from an afterlife perspective, Salon finds a new sense of freedom with a cohort of “classmates” who have yet to move on. Here she will learn the truth of her death, and find a new sense of life in the past tense.
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Carson explores the way community and connections build and buckle under the eye of a charismatic leader in DARK MESSIAH, a novel told from the POV of 15 year old Nell, a teenager living in 1975 San Francisco on a collision course with a Jonestown inspired cult.
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Isabelle Correa discusses her gorgeous poetry, collected in PORTRAIT OF A PERSON WHO PUSHES LOVE AWAY IN FEAR OF LOSING IT. Through intimate and darkly funny poems, Isabelle Correa explores heartbreak, desire, healing, and the lifelong search for a love that doesn’t require losing yourself.
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Carly Hillman makes a flawless leap from working on Late Night TV to novel writing with THE REFUGE, a literary thriller set on a Montana Wildlife reserve. This book will grab the attention of readers right from the get go, when a mysterious seven year old girl is discovered alone and hiding by Johnny, a Park Ranger. What happens from here? You’ll have to read to find out.
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Patricia Park joins us to chat about AMBROSIA LEE DROPS THE MIC, a YA novel about an Asian American teenager and “failed” child star, who finds herself pursuing stand-up comedy in the midst of her every day life drama!
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She was taught to endure. Her daughter teaches her to dream. Local author and friend-of-the-show Carol Hoenig returns to discuss her newest work of moving and insightful fiction, THE LIBERATION OF JANE CARTER, set in the rugged mountains and farms of Upstate New York in the early 1900s.
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Kasey Lansdale shares FIRST CHANCE, a witty, impossible-to-put-down thriller in which small-town detective Chance Kirby must stop a predator who, it seems, has managed to evade authorities for decades…or risk becoming the next target.
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Nafiza Azad and Intisar Khanani share their gorgeous edited collection A THOUSAND NIGHTS, a groundbreaking YA anthology featuring sixteen Muslim women writers that links together fantastical stories that a group of refugees tell one another within a riveting frame story.
