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01/11/2024

Native American Heritage Month is here and Goodreads recommends THUNDER SONG by Sasha LaPointe and THIS TOWN SLEEPS by Dennis E. Staples among many other incredible titles by Native authors.

Check out the full list here:

November is Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. In honor of the ongoing celebrations, we’ve collected below several dozen new and recent books...

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Looking for something spooky to get you in the spirit? Might we suggest…

👻 THE BOG WIFE by
: Five siblings in West Virginia unearth long-buried secrets when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured.

👻THE PERISHING by : A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler.

👻 WASTELAND by Scott W. Poole: A historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee traces the birth of modern horror movies and literature back to World War I, exploring how the conflict influenced H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, and other artists of the genre.

24/10/2024

"The volcanic and other geologic forces lying beneath Yellowstone were anything but “extinct” or “dying out.” On the contrary, they were—and continue to be—very much alive."

Check out the full excerpt from A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE, via Literary Hub.

On the evening of Monday, August 17, 1959, Yellowstone National Park lay under a gorgeous star-filled sky. The late-summer moon shone especially bright, reflecting off the rivers, springs, and geys…

23/10/2024

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and to celebrate, we’re spotlighting THE FUTURE WAS COLOR by .

From the author of SOME HELL, THE FUTURE WAS COLOR is a dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles.

“A moving portrait of q***r lives that were otherwise silenced or interrupted by history.” —

“Everything I look for in a book: a unique and startling voice, a q***r protagonist and a deep understanding of a particular time and place.” —

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23/10/2024

Big congratulations to Sasha LaPointe for being longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for THUNDER SONG! 🏅 📚

Check out the full list here:

The Andrew Carnegie Medals are the first single-book awards for adult titles given by the ALA; they reflect the expert judgment and insight of library and book professionals who work closely with adult readers. The Medals and the lists leading up to the selection of the winners serve as guides to se...

22/10/2024

FREEDOM'S GHOST is now available in paperback! ✨

As the drumbeat of the American Revolution grows ever closer, Scotsman-turned-American-patriot Duncan McCallum must navigate treacherous cultural and political waters if he’s to secure a fighting chance for the fledgling nation in this gripping installment of the acclaimed Bone Rattler series.

"Another rousing adventure for Scotsman Duncan McCallum in pre–Revolutionary War America . . . This historical mystery is good fun." — Publishers Weekly

"Pattison offers once again . . . a fierce suspense that depends on love and loyalty, as well as cunning and intelligence, within the overall historical results we think we all understand." — New York Journal of Books

21/10/2024

In today’s book review, Jessica Blough dives into "Olive Days" by Jessica Elisheva Emerson.

In her first novel, Emerson explores love, faith, and rebellion through Rina, a wife and mother searching for something more.

16/10/2024

Randall K. Wilson chats with KPCW Radio about his new book A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE and how America's first national park was established.

Randall Wilson, author and professor of environmental studies at Gettysburg College, talks about his just released book, "A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park."

16/10/2024

👁️‍🗨️ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 👁️‍🗨️ An appropriately spooky cover for Dennis E. Staples' PASSING THROUGH A PRAIRIE COUNTRY, designed by Nicole Caputo! Arriving 3.18.25 and available to preorder now.

About the book:
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web

For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Only spoken of in whispers as “the sandman,” he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation’s main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons’ dreams and ambitions and also preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on. Fleeing a breakup, Marion Lafournier, a mid-twenties Ojibwe, seeks solace in the slot machine’s siren song. Here he falls afoul of the sandman, an encounter Marion barely escapes through the timely intervention of his cousins Alana and Cherie, who both work at the casino and are intimately aware of the sandman’s power. Meanwhile, Glenn Nielan, only recently out of the closet and an aspiring documentarian, hopes to capture the faces of the Ojibwe land while experiencing the casino’s thrills. But he will learn that all who choose to play the sandman’s games are in danger of falling into his grasp.

Marion and Alana are members of the Bullhead clan, a family with ties to a sacred past and a fierce determination to ensure their future. Alana, with her seven-fire sight, is the only person to fully grasp the danger the sandman poses. Aware of Marion’s occasional ability to navigate the spirit world, she enlists his aid in defeating this wraith. But the power and reach of the sandman go far beyond Alana’s worst fears. Soon she and Marion find themselves in a battle for their lives and for the souls of the reservation’s residents, both the living and the dead.

15/10/2024

"When you are writing about a family with history and heritage and legacy on their shoulders, you can see this slow, gradual slide, not just over a lifetime, but over generations, of people accepting something as normal that, from the outside, we cannot fathom thinking about as normal."

Kay Chronister talks bog facts, folklore, family legacies, and her new book THE BOG WIFE with Electric Literature.

The author discusses kings, queens, non-human wives, and the pain of being a patriarch

15/10/2024

New in paperback ‼️ STARKWEATHER tells the chilling true story of Charles Starkweather, considered by many to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America.

⭐ Named a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by Washington Post & an Amazon Best History Book of the Month ⭐

“[MacLean’s] narrative delivers the chilling goods.” — The Wall Street Journal

"An instant true crime classic.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"With the potential to change minds about long-ago crimes, this is all but destined to become a genre classic.” — Booklist

10/10/2024

PA! Don't miss Kay Chronister on Oct. 16th at Main Point Books for a talk + signing for her new book THE BOG WIFE! 🍄✨

RSVP here:

Main Point Books welcomes Kay Chronister and special guest A.C. Wise

09/10/2024

🚨Limited-time promo!🚨 For this week only, you can get pick STILL LIVES by on sale . Check the link in bio to learn more 🔗

09/10/2024

🚨 Promo Alert! 🚨 For this week only, you can get Reese’s Book Club pick STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel on sale on at Apple Books.

Head here to read or listen now: apple.co/readorlisten-rbc

08/10/2024

Happy pub day to A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE! ⛰️ 🥾 ✨ Randall K. Wilson's latest book tells the fascinating story of how Yellowstone’s remote Western landscape became a symbol of our country—and an integral part of our understanding of the natural world.

"A fascinating account of how a remote place on the map became something iconic. It's a winding historical adventure—at times exhilarating, at times horrifying—that reveals what makes a place renowned. His tales of this tectonic landscape will move you!" —Christopher J. Preston, author of TENACIOUS BEASTS

05/10/2024

A great Los Angeles Times review for A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE 🥾 ⛰️

"Wilson’s talent as a storyteller shines through in turning dry bureaucratic bumbling and crony corruption into a focus on individual exploits and entertaining tales. It makes for great reading."

In 'A Place Called Yellowstone,' environmental historian Randall K. Wilson traces the natural forces and the human clashes that created the world's first national park.

04/10/2024

⚫ COVER REVEAL ⚫ Kicking off the weekend by sharing this gorgeous cover for the forthcoming THE WORDS OF DR. L by Karen E. Bender, designed by with art direction by .

This one will hit bookstores and libraries on 5/6/25 and is available to preorder now! 📚

About the book:
National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender returns with a story collection that uses both a realistic and a speculative lens to explore a universal situation—the ways parents and children separate at different times of life

Grounded in both the contemporary United States and a variety of dystopias, the new stories in Karen E. Bender’s third collection examine the evolving dynamics of the nuclear family in adolescence, motherhood, the empty nest, and caring for the aging parent. From a young woman who wants to learn secret words to terminate a pregnancy to a mother who discovers an extra child in her home she had forgotten about, to a couple separated from their son in globes orbiting the Earth, to society’s terrible plan to leave the burning planet for a life on Mars, the stories honor the emotional force of these situations by grappling with themes of freedom, self-definition, youth, aging, control, and power. Bender’s work explores the ordinary in the extraordinary, using settings both familiar and fantastic to discover new truths in the lifelong connection between parents and their children.

03/10/2024

4 weeks until Halloween, which means 4 weeks of BOG vibes. 🖤 🍄 🍂

"If you need a good old fashioned gothic horror story to sustain you through the Halloween season, then look no further than THE BOG WIFE." — Harper's Bazaar

Including the latest Sally Rooney offering, modern horror stories, and Cher's highly-anticipated memoir

02/10/2024

Attention all Banana Yoshimoto fans 🚨🍌 THE PREMONITION is now available in paperback!

The internationally beloved author of KITCHEN and DEAD-END MEMORIES returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth.

“There’s a matter-of-factness to Yoshimoto’s prose that would feel stultifying if it weren’t so mischievous. . .Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention” —

02/10/2024

🌟 COVER REVEAL 🌟 We're thrilled to share the cover of Vinh Nguyen's THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE, designed by Farjana Yasmin and . This one arrives on 4/15/25 and is available to preorder now.

📚 About the book:
An unconventional memoir of sifting through the memories of a long-lost homeland, and a vital document of one family’s journey through world history

With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished.

Decades later, Nguyen goes looking for the story of his lost father. What he discovers is a sea of questions drifting above a bed of buried truths. To come to terms with the past, Nguyen must piece together the debris of history with family stories that have been scattered across generations and continents, kept for decades in broken hearts and guarded silences.

THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE takes readers on a poignant tour of disappeared refugee camps, abandoned family homes, and the lives that could have been. As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this powerful memoir is timelier and more important than ever, illuminating the stories, real and imagined, that become buried in the rubble of war.

01/10/2024

🍄 BOG WIFE season has arrived, & we’re kicking off pub day with a ton of great news! 🍄

⭐️ The New York Times gave this stellar review: “THE BOG WIFE lives in two worlds at once. It’s situated both in the real world, with fraught familial and marital relationships, complex social dynamics and crucial activities like paying bills and preemptively felling dangerous trees, as well as in a dreamy Southern gothic world filled with ancient magic, supernatural compacts and, potentially, murder . . . THE BOG WIFE is a lush, beautifully written novel about trying to be a person in our strange world.”

⭐️ Book of the Month selected THE BOG WIFE as an October add on!

⭐️ Strand Book Store selected it as the feature fiction title in their October subscription box! Sign up at the link in our bio to get a signed first edition. 🔗

⭐️ THE BOG WIFE is an American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick for October!

Congratulations, Kay! We’re excited to see what else is to come 👀📚🖤

30/09/2024

One more day until BOG WIFE fall begins and we're kicking off with a glowing review ✨

"A lush, beautifully written novel about trying to be a person in our strange world. . . Pick this one up for its exquisite characterization, decaying settings and a dash of Southern gothic horror." 🖤

In “The Bog Wife,” a West Virginia family must reckon with secrets, betrayals and the destruction of their legacy when a supernatural covenant that protected them begins to falter.

27/09/2024

New ⭐ starred review ⭐ just dropped for Kay Chronister's THE BOG WIFE!

Library Journal calls it "supernatural, atmospheric, and deeply immersive. . . Gothic horror at its absolute finest, this story is as mythical as it is malignant."

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27/09/2024

"You’ve heard of cottagecore and faeriecore, but are you ready to embrace bogcore? If not, Kay Chronister’s new tale of familial sacrifice and obligation will thoroughly immerse you in the vibe."—

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26/09/2024

OLIVE DAYS is this fall's hottest book club pick ❤️‍🔥 calls it "a promising debut novel for fans of Jami Attenberg and Nicole Krauss" that "begs to be discussed among friends." Need we say more?

‘Olive Days’ is a debut novel by Jessica Elisheva Emerson about a modern Orthodox Jewish woman’s struggles with identity, infidelity and more. Here’s my honest review.