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The Original Daughter
The Original Daughter : A Novel
by Jemimah Wei
Reviewed: Feb 12, 2025
 
Published: May 6, 2025
 
In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.
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(4.6/5)
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Serial Killer Games
Serial Killer Games
by Kate Posey
Reviewed: Dec 24, 2024
 
Published: Apr 29, 2025
 
What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally?

A morbidly funny and emotionally resonant novel about the ways life—and love—can sneak up on us (no matter how much pepper spray we carry).
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(4.2/5)
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Ginseng Roots
Ginseng Roots : A Memoir
by Craig Thompson
Reviewed: Mar 12, 2025
 
Published: Apr 29, 2025
 
From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic memoir exploring class, childhood, family, and our globalized world.
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(4.2/5)
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The Seven O'Clock Club
The Seven O'Clock Club
by Amelia Ireland
Reviewed: Oct 16, 2024
 
Published: Apr 15, 2025
 
Four strangers are brought together to participate in an experimental treatment designed to heal broken hearts in this surprising and heartfelt debut novel from author Amelia Ireland.
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(4.5/5)
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One Death at a Time
One Death at a Time
by Abbi Waxman
Reviewed: Nov 12, 2024
 
Published: Apr 15, 2025
 
A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
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(4.4/5)
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The Fairbanks Four
The Fairbanks Four : Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
Reviewed: Mar 12, 2025
 
Published: Apr 15, 2025
 
One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.
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(3.8/5)
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Happy Land
Happy Land
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Reviewed: Oct 16, 2024
 
Published: Apr 8, 2025
 
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.
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(4.7/5)
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The BookBrowse Anthology
The BookBrowse Anthology
by BookBrowse
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Published: Mar 25, 2025
 
For the first time we've assembled a decade of our Best of Year reviews in print.
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