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Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

Featuring 302 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this special Science Fiction & Fantasy Issue: interviews with R.F. Kuang, Melissa Febos, Adrianna Cuevas, ...

A caring bear puts his own needs aside to help his friends and gets an unexpected surprise in return in Hendrick’s picture book. Bernard the bear is good at building things—he even built his very own ...

On the orders of her mother, a woman goes to dragon-riding school. Even though her mother is a general in Navarre’s army, 20-year-old Violet Sorrengail was raised by her father to follow his path as a ...

Two people with bad luck in relationships find each other through a popular Reddit thread. Emma Grant and her best friend, Maddy, are travel nurses, working at hospitals for three-month stints while ...

After praying to a Fate for help, Evangeline discovers the dangerous world of magic. When her father passes away, Evangeline is left with her cold stepmother and kind but distant stepsister, Marisol.

Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, ...

In a haven for the displaced called the Sea, a girl tends her ailing father and is nurtured by fellow refugees from across the centuries. “The buildings of the Sea are made of time,” Lina’s father, ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

In the wake of the JFK assassination, another death shakes Chicago. Before “true crime” and “cold case” became cultural bywords, the real-life mystery surrounding Karyn “Cookie” Kupcinet obsessed her ...

A Wizard of Oz–themed guide to self-care for caregivers from Green. The Wizard of Oz and its adaptation, The Wiz, are employed as metaphors for the caregiving experience in this self-help book.The ...