Oct 18 2026
Two years after the events of The Hedge Knight, Dunk and Egg find themselves at the ass end of nowhere, sworn to serve a knight who’s not far from a hedge himself, while much of the region struggles with a drought. The novella opens with the two of them returning from an errand to buy …
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Oct 17 2026
I’m not really a blurb person, but as short descriptions of A House With Good Bones go — “(a) funny, (b) scary, and (c) charming. You will gulp this book down like sweet tea on a hot day.” (Charlaine Harris) and a “special blend of horror and snarky mundanity, wherein the not-so-dearly departed demand half-frozen …
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Oct 15 2026
The experience of reading this book made a lot more sense once I realized it was written by an older person at the end of his life (RIP, Benjamin Alire Sáenz.) And I’m not saying that there’s an age range in which you can or cannot write a book for a certain audience. This wasn’t …
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Oct 14 2026
This adorable graphic novel chapter book is the first in a new Time-Traveling Chickens series for advancing readers! Nugget and Tenders are two chickens kept in a super secret lab who’ve been accidentally fed a Super-Smart potion instead of the Super-Big potion Dr Dipping-Sauce thought she was giving them, as part of the shadowy Big …
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Oct 13 2026
I kept having to put this Middle Grade novel off but am so glad I could finally make the time for it! Deepa is a precocious 12 year-old who missed out on her entire first year of middle school while she was being treated for leukemia. Now she’s determined to get back to being a …
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Oct 12 2026
What Work Is was my introduction to Philip Levine, back in 1991 when it was new and I was working at the late and lamented Oxford Books of Atlanta, Georgia. Oxford was the largest independent bookstore in the Southeast, and something of a pioneer of the superstore model, bookstores that kept 100,000 or more titles …
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Oct 11 2026
Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi was born in Hamburg in 1926, son of a working-class German woman and a son of the Liberian consul general in the city. The liaison that produced him did not last — both mother and father were young to be parents, and his father returned to Ireland to continue his studies in law …
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Oct 10 2026
I found it a little hard to believe that The Hedge Knight is closing in on 30 years since its first publication in Legends, an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg. (I haven’t read it, but the table of contents looks great.) I think the conversation around the television series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” …
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Oct 09 2026
As the days grow ever shorter in the countdown to Halloween and beyond, we have more awesome upcoming books for your consideration! First up is a rarity: a full-length prose novel inspired by a comic book series instead of the other way around. James Tynion IV and Kiersten White — two creators I greatly admire! …
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Oct 08 2026
with letters by Diego Revelo and design by David Escobedo. This seven-part graphic novella that first appeared in David Lloyd’s Aces Weekly online comics art magazine has recently been nominated for a Ringo Award for Best Webcomic, no small feat for a first time author! As I type, the comic is only available at the …
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Al Singh
Doug Merrill
Doreen Sheridan
Emily Lauer
John Pitzel
Lars N. Goldschlager
Laura Eilers
Professor X
Robert Maedgen
Sylvere Ap Leanan
The Shire