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First Few Pages: Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Posted on October 14, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection
At the heart of this tender, playful tale is a powerful message about the importance of reaching out which shows how with one kind act you can change your life for the better, and more importantly, you can change the lives of others. Read the First Few Pages of Lonely Castle in the Mirror on the blog.
First Few Pages: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Posted on October 6, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection
From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
First Few Pages: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Posted on October 3, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of the novels Velvet Was the Night, and Mexican Gothic, writes a dazzling historical novel and a daring science fiction journey in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
First Few Pages: The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas
From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Read the First Few Pages of The American Roommate Experiment on the blog.
First Few Pages: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
First Few Pages: How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
Posted on September 5, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection
How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy—within ourselves, and with each other. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
First Few Pages: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Posted on August 30, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
The Boy with the Bookstore by Sarah Echavarre Smith
Posted on August 30, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages
When a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams, and he turns into her nemesis, they’ll both have to read between the lines to avoid a career-ending recipe for disaster. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
First Few Pages: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Posted on August 11, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection
They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they’re sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller. Read the First Few Pages of Killers of a Certain Age on the blog.
First Few Pages: The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland
Posted on August 11, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection
After a failed attempt at escape, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life. Barbara Bourland’s stunning third novel The Force of Such Beauty is her most ambitious and most imaginative book to date. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.
