Mar 25 2025
We have a publishing day treat for readers with an excerpt from Emily Carpenter’s brand new thriller Gothictown, out today from Kensington Books! Manhattan chef Billie Hope is feeling at a loose end: her restaurant has closed and she’s feeling more than a little lonely, despite enjoying the (unfortunately) abundant free time she now has …
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Mar 24 2025
This second Monti & Leo book finds the two best friends embroiled in a series of conundrums, one light-hearted but one decidedly serious, as collecting mania comes to Pocketville! Mrs Sheep has generously allowed her collection of figurines to be displayed at the local library. As the Pocketvillians ooh and aah over the scope of …
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Mar 21 2025
Hello, dear readers! With the advent of the spring equinox, I’m going to pivot towards spotlighting upcoming books in this column and not just ones that have recently published that I’m super excited to get to. So here’s a bonus column rounding up some of those latter, beginning with the third and latest installment of …
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Mar 20 2025
Young Bertie Wells has always had the imagination of an inventor. But when he accidentally creates a black hole in his bedroom, he’s not prepared for either that or for the sudden appearance of a strange woman bearing an invitation for him to attend the Everwhen School of Time Travel and Other Odd Sciences. Not …
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Mar 19 2025
subtitled & Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown. With lettering by Clem Robins. Y’know, I never seemed to hit Mike Mignola’s work at quite the right time. I’ve long been interested in the Hellboy and BPRD franchises, but every time I managed to pick up a book, I was quickly flummoxed by being required to …
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Mar 17 2025
The global COVID-19 lockdowns were a tough time for millions around the globe, in no small part due to the confrontation many people had with whether or not they actually enjoyed living with themselves. One such person is Mylo Gunn, a fifty year-old Black American whose extra time for introspection butts up against the burgeoning …
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Mar 14 2025
I continue to be flummoxed by the concept of time, dear readers, as March comes in like a lion here in my mid-Atlantic state. It has also been, quite frankly, a tough time to be a professional reader. It feels like one catastrophe after another threatening everything I hold dear, through the diabolical intersection of …
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Mar 13 2025
I’m ngl, pretty privilege is real. I don’t speak just from personal experience, but from watching pre-Crystal Palace Ben Chilwell get consistently picked for Chelsea and England despite being clearly outclassed by nearly everyone around him (this is, admittedly, a very niche example.) So when this terrific queer title came across my desk, I knew …
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Mar 12 2025
Bitsy Bat loves school, but is a little worried when new kid Enzo Owl threatens to take the Fastest Flier title away from her. Concerned that her friends will no longer think she’s special, she hyperfocuses on proving that she’s the best. But when race day comes and one of her classmates winds up in …
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Mar 11 2025
Oh, young love! Amber and Nico have been best friends since the third grade, along with the other member of their little trio, Drew. During the last week of eighth grade, all three of them go on a field trip to Funnerland with the rest of their class. Their good friends Stella and Grace (who …
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Emily Lauer
John Pitzel
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Professor X
Robert Maedgen
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