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You know those stories that go bump in the night? This, most definitely, is one of those. Marcus Kliewer’s first novel is an old-fashioned ghost story about a haunted house.

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The Wildes is both a powerful family portrait and a verbal delight.”

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“For all its occasional longeurs, Small Rain is often gripping and sometimes heartwarming.”

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Napalm in the Heart is a powerful sensory and emotional experience.”

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“explodes with brilliant language. . . . a lovely, richly written first novel.”

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“feels completely contemporary in terms of language, characters, descriptions. It just happens to take place in the 11th century.”

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“Mwanza’s writing captures her own passion as well as that of her central character.”

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“Alex Espinosa has drawn rich, fascinating characters and offers a detailed picture of Mexico at a politically turbulent time and Los Angeles at key moments in its recent history.”

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“A very different, very deceptive but very entertaining Gothic tale.”

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easily merits five stars because of its ability to keep the reader interested until the end through its unusual and beautifully told story.”

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“Jiaming Tang’s first novel is a beautiful meditation on love, loss, and the haunting power of the past.”

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After Sappho is labeled as a novel although most of the characters presented actually existed and the words and actions ascribed to them are translated, paraphrased, quoted with minor alte

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“the characters are complex, three-dimensional, and not always likable people, struggling with engrossing dilemma—the fixings of a good novel.”

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Ways and Means is an amazing debut novel from a prodigiously gifted young writer. . . . virtuosic storytelling.”

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The House of Doors is a fascinating, beautiful book.

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In Bryan Washington’s second novel, Family Meal, three narrators speak to us in the easy, conversational style familiar from both Washington’s debut short story collection, Lot, a

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"Donoghue has created a vivid world here, the confined lives of ambitious girls, some manipulative, some kind, but all keenly aware of the social strata containing them. . . .

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“Torres’ intricate web of narratives is gripping from beginning to end. His richly drawn characters are passionate . . .”

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“it is the combination of the Western novel and Eastern fable that allows the reader to become totally enthralled. . . . ravishingly written.”

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“Sebastian has a breezy style that keeps the reader interested.”

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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style is a novel soaked in hilarious deliciousness, gut-wrenching grief, fashion faux pas, and fierce friendships.”

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Edmund White’s impressive early novels, A Boy’s Own Story (1982) and The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) were considered groundbreaking in the genre of gay litera

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“At the age of 27, author Jinwoo Chong is already a major literary talent.”

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After Sappho is a women’s text in that it is non-linear, non-hierarchical, multi-voiced, innovative, and highly creative and original.”

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“Rosen is excellent at creating the perfect murder mystery setting and in peopling it with interesting characters and complex relationships.”

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