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June 24, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, and Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. We ...
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute ...
Three women reshape their family's Napa Valley winery after the 1967 Summer of Love.
A young woman’s coming-of-age story set in the early American frontier, shaped by tragedy, nature, and resilience.
"A brother and sister make a living conducting Spiritualist hoaxes, but the tables are turned when they discover a real mystery at The Coterie."
As soon as I finished We Could Be Anyone I grabbed my phone to text three friends who love YA fantasy. "You will love this. Trust me," I wrote to each. One asked what it was about: "A brother and sister stage fake hauntings at fancy hotels and then ...
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
A glamorous biographical novel on Mary Quant, whose daring design of the miniskirt revolutionized fashion.
"A young woman grapples with loss after her twin sister goes missing in a mysterious spiritual realm."
When the parents of twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia divorce, each takes primary custody of one daughter. Though both girls are growing up Black in the Midwest, their upbringings could not be more different. Their mother raises Olivia as a devout ...
"ChickLit Murder Mystery/Thriller: An Entertaining and Smart Summertime Novel"
The air is hot and sultry. And another hurricane is forming in the Caribbean with it's eye on St. Medard's Bay on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. Here's a word to the wise: Not everyone who dies during a ...
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Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.
"Samantha Allen reimagines a classic Shakespearean comedy for the age of reality television in this clever, funny novel."
Unlike the Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who is a mischievous servant of the Fairy King, Samantha Allen's Puck is a producer on a reality show. Puck's boss is not Oberon but Ron, the executive producer of Homewreckers, a dating show...
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
May 24, 2026
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...
"Maria Reva breaks the fourth wall in her novel about Ukrainian romance tours."
Maria Reva's debut novel Endling follows a group of Ukrainian women involved in "romance tours"—a cultural phenomenon akin to the mail-order bride system in which men from around the world come to meet Ukrainian women with the goal of marriage....
Penguin edition - Briggs translation - Black cover w/ chandelier: Volume 1, Part II, chapters 1-21, 96 pp. Signet edition - Dunnigan translation - tan cover w/ flag: Book 1, Part II, chapters 1-21,...
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"At times funny, at times moving, Contrapposto describes the lifelong friendship between two artists."
Contrapposto, Italian for "counterpose," is an artistic technique in which most of the subject's weight is shifted to one foot, causing the figure's hips and shoulders to ride at opposing angles and resulting in an appealing S-...
A conversation with Dave Eggers on Contrapposto.
The members of the Girls' Night In Book Club in the Washington DC area are an eclectic bunch of women with a shared love of books. They particularly ...
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"During the Ordnance Survey of the 1800s, Tomás and his son Liam have left their home in Dublin to map a remote peninsula of Ireland. When Tomás has an unsettling encounter in a copse, Liam is unnerved by the change in his father."
On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up...
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New ...
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