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A witch hired to ethically haunt a small-town B&B instead finds herself spellbound by her non-magical client in this cozy and enchanting sapphic romance. Isabel Sterling shares WITH ALL MY HAUNTED HEART!
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Jennifer Sears shares WHAT MENNONITE GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR, a gorgeous debut collection of eleven connected short stories following a Mennonite minister’s daughter named Ruthie as she transitions from childhood faith to religious doubt.
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Gary Goldstein returns to the show to discuss CANINE CUSTODY, which follows Layla and Franklin as they negotiate their divorce and a bitter custody battle for their dog, Betty (who you better believe is a POV character).
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E. Madison Shimoda discusses her translation of WELCOME TO THE KOKORO CAT CLINIC, the third book in the cozy hit I’LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT series! We discuss our love of cats and translating the textures of everyday life in Japan onto the page.
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Professors Lee Kuhnle & Nathan Radke present UNCOVER UP: HOW TO THINK CLEARLY IN AN AGE OF CONSPIRACIES, an urgent exploration of how conspiratorial thinking, misinformation, and anti-intellectualism take hold and spread, with suggestions for how to see the truth through the noise.
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Beauty doesn’t fade. It feeds. Alma Katsu returns to the show to discuss INCARNATE, a brilliant and disturbing remix of Oscar Wilde’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY for the age of internet start-ups and generative AI.
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In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers… even at the threat of war. Premee Mohamed returns to the show to discuss her epic spy fantasy.
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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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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.