In honor of awards season, our staff selected their top picks for their most-anticipated literary fiction and nonfiction reads. Browse the list below for eGalleys, audio information, and more. Browse an extended collection on Edelweiss here. Rachel’s Pick Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy A sweeping look at how […]
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Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Tomi Obaro on Our Relationship Fiction Panel. Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Isabel Cañas on the Spring Book & Author Festival Horror Panel. During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to A Clip from the Audiobook. In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St Bernard woman in every generation has the power to shepherd […]
Like most writers, I’ve always been obsessed with libraries. My obsession extended to me earning a master’s degree in library science, publishing an article about zine collections in Public Libraries magazine, starting a zine archive at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and volunteering both at the library on Alcatraz(!) and my local […]
Dear Librarians, The day Toni Morrison died I was working an hour away from home, conducting meetings with a team of insurance professionals I’d managed for the best part of twenty years. I’d been balancing a double life, as a writer, the entire time I worked my full-time job. When my phone started buzzing, ringing, […]
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