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| | In the stack of books on my desk, there's one I borrowed from a friend. We'd been discussing weird and creepy fiction, years ago, when he handed me a collection of horror stories by Robert Aickman. A few weeks later, the world went into quarantine lockdown, and I found those chilling tales to be a much-needed escape from what amounted to a waking nightmare. Since then, I've meant to give the book back to him, but he has also assured me that it isn't urgent.
I'm similarly prone to lending books I don't necessarily expect back. Although, one time I did put out an APB on social media when I couldn't find my copy of some Hilton Als essays I wanted to revisit. The book came home within the week. Since then, I've developed a strategy of buying extra copies of favorite titles, so I'm better prepared to hand them out when the occasion arises.
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 | | With the Heart of a Ghost | | | Lim Sunwoo, trans. by Chi-Young Kim, trans. by Chi-Young Kim |
| | | The everyday inexplicably morphs into the surreally fantastical in Lim Sunwoo's irresistibly imaginative eight-story collection.
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| | One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate | | | Ej Dickson |
| | | This provocative, entertaining work explores the societal stigma surrounding bad mothers and makes the case that mothers should embrace their maternal imperfections.
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| | My Language Is a Garden | | | E.G. Alaraj, illus. by Rachel Wada |
| | | Thoughtfully and in gentle rhyme, picture book My Language Is a Garden presents a parent's appeal to a child to treasure their language as a gift.
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| | Evil Genius | | | Claire Oshetsky |
| | | In Evil Genius, a darkly comic satire by Claire Oshetsky, a story of love and death drives a young woman into an obsession with escaping her repressive life.
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| | | | | | A beautiful depiction of the power of found family, Kin tells the story of two motherless girls, friends since birth, and their challenges as they face adulthood from very different perspectives.
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| | | | Rebecca Kauffman's circadian novel-in-stories, a gentle mystery, spins character studies of workers at a Midwestern restaurant coping with kitchen catastrophes and preparing to host John Grisham.
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| | | | In this wistful novel, a longtime teacher recalls his challenging relationship with his most exceptional student.
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| | | | This novel by The People We Hate at the Wedding author Grant Ginder is a laugh-out-loud funny, emotionally gripping page-turner that tracks a group of college friends across two decades.
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| | | | In her debut novel, Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack crafts an unforgettable, spiraling thriller that gleefully upends expectations--of people and of narratives themselves.
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| | | | A young woman who sees ghosts becomes entangled with a compelling, dangerous man and a mysterious estate in this gorgeous, seductive gothic fantasy.
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| | | | Cameron Sullivan's haunting debut fantasy novel remakes the original werewolf story of the Beast of Gévaudan.
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| | | | Julia Cooke's sharp, insightful third book is a nuanced account of three pioneering female journalists and the ways their work helped shape the world.
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| | | | In this heartfelt, layered middle-grade novel, a sixth-grade Muslim girl attempts to balance familial relationships, personal responsibility, and faith.
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| | | | Sixteen authors offer up encouraging stories to help young readers maintain hopefulness in the overwhelming struggle to fight climate change.
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| | | | Spring arrives around a late snow in this comforting, elegant picture book from Kevin Henkes.
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| | | | An ambitious alligator in an excavator learns the value of teamwork and accountability in this kinetic, read-aloud-ready picture book.
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| | |   Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, is celebrated on the spring equinox. Rashin Kheiriyeh (Welcome, Uncle Nowruz) and Zohreh Ghahremani (Celebrate Nowruz) have both written picture books to honor this holiday. Here, the authors discuss the celebration, and their excitement about highlighting the non-religious holiday for young readers. (continued)
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| | | Merriam Webster asked: "Whither 'wuthering?': 12 words from Wuthering Heights... say hello to our Brontë thesaurus."
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"Book vs. movie: 6 biggest changes in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights," courtesy of Mental Floss.
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Wuthering Heights-inspired headline (via the Onion): "Bookseller scrambles to hide all the classics after seeing Emerald Fennell approaching door." |
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| | |  Maxine Clair, who was a 55-year-old hospital administrator when she published her first work of fiction, Rattlebone (1994), died last September at age 86. The collection of linked stories "centered on a Black girl named Irene growing up in 1950s Kansas City, Kan.," Clair's hometown, the New York Times reported, adding that it received universal praise for her "steady, unshowy narrative style, as well as her ability to evoke an entire world around a single young character."... (continued)
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