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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, ...
The chef, rapper, and TV host serves up a blustery memoir with lashings of self-help. “I’ve always had a sick confidence,” writes Bronson, ne Ariyan Arslani. The confidence, he adds, comes from ...
The iconic model tells the story of her eventful life. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be ...
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 ...
Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...