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* There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven. By Ruben Reyes Jr. Aug. 2024. 288p. Mariner, $28 (9780063336278). In every iteration, Salvadorans rewrite the narrative in this jewel-like collection from [...]

The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls. By Angela Sylvaine. May 2024. 155p. Dark Matter INK, paper, $14.99 (9781958598276); e-book (9781958598627). Somehow, girls who want more tend to meet bad [...]

* The Z Word. By Lindsay King-Miller. May 2024. 256p. Quirk, paper, $16.99 (9781683694076); e-book (9781683694083). In the throbbing chaos before Pride, Wendy is seeing the shimmer of things to [...]

* Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country. Ed. by Alissa Quart and David Wallis. Oct. 2023. 368p. Haymarket, paper, $19.95 (9781642599657); e-book (9798888900352). 305. [...]

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans. By Jane Marie. Mar. 2024. 320p. Atria, $29 (9781982155773); e-book (9781982155797). 330. The Dreams Marie turns the origins of her hit podcast [...]

The Night Guest. By Hildur Knutsdottir. Tr. by Mary Robinette Kowal. Sept. 2024. 208p. Tor Nightfire, $19.99 (9781250322043); e-book (9781250322500). Something's keeping Idunn up at night. Although her name references [...]

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream. By Alissa Quart. Mar. 2023. 304P. Ecco, $28.99 (9780063028005); e-book, $14.99 (9780063028029). 330. Informed by the COVID-19 pandemic's magnification of our national inequalities, [...]

* Bad Cree. By Jessica Johns. Jan. 2023.272P. Doubleday, $28 (9780385548694); e-book, $13.99 (9780385548700). A young Cree woman finds herself unable to outrun her sister's tragic death and the nightmares [...]

* Factory Girls. By Michelle Gallen. Nov. 2022. 240p. Algonquin, paper, $17.99 (9781643752457); e-book, $15.95 (9781643753478). Maeve is spending the long, boring summer between school and adulthood in her small, [...]

Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia. By Natasha Lance Rogoff. Oct. 2022. 304P. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $26.95 (9781538161289); e-book, $25.50 (9781538161296). [...]

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet--and Why We're Following. By Gabrielle Bluestone. Apr. 2021.352p. Hanover Square, $28.99 (9781335016492). 363. It's a post-truth world; we're [...]

* Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse. By Maya Phillips. Oct. 2022. 288p. Atria, $27 (9781982165772). 306.4. There's no culture like nerd culture, according to professional [...]

Under Fortunate Stars. By Ren Hutchings. May 2022.368p. Solaris, $24.99 (9781786185921); e-book, $8.99 (9781786185914). The Gallion was just another corporate starship running a diplomatic errand between loads of researchers. But [...]

Hidden Pictures. By Jason Rekulak. May 2022. 384p. Flatiron, $27.99 (9781250819345); e-book, $14.99 (9781250819369). The Pottery Barn-perfect town of Spring Brook promises to be a safe haven for Mallory, who [...]

* The Ghost Sequences. By A. C. Wise. Oct. 2021.358p. Undertow, paper, $17.99 (9781988964331). Is this a short story collection or 16 hauntings that will chase you through your dreams? [...]

The Power of Awareness and Other Secrets from the World's Foremost Spies, Detectives, and Special Operators on How to Stay Safe and Save Your Life. By Dan Schilling. June 2021. [...]

* Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. By Amanda Montell. June 2021.320p. HarperWave, $27.99 (9780062993151). 361. The author of Wordslut (2019) turns her linguistic examinations to belief and belong ing. Cults [...]

* Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986. By Duane Tudahl. June 2021. 620p. Rowman 81 Littlefield, $40 (9781538144510). 781.66092. In this [...]

Race Me in a Lobster Suit: Absurd Internet Ads and the Real Conversations That Followed. By Kelly Mahon. Mar. 2019. 208p. illus. Quirk, paper, $12.99 (9781683691044).650. In today's gig economy, [...]

Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State. By Charles A. Gardner. Mar. 2019.270p. Kensington/Citadel, $26 (9780806539249); e-book, $12.99 (9780806539263). 365.641.This [...]

Speculative Los Angeles. Ed. by Denise Hamilton. Feb. 2021. 272p. Akashic, $25.95 (9781617758645); paper, $15.95 (9781617758560); e-book, $25.95 (9781617758683). Fans of Akashic's Noir titles (e.g., Tampa Bay Noir, 2020) will [...]

Soulstar. By C. L. Polk. Feb. 2021. 304p. Tor.com, paper, $17.99 (9781250203571). The final book in the Kingston Cycle (beginning with Witchmark, 2018) is a signature blend of Polk's masterful [...]

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion. By Tori Telfer. Feb. 2021.352p. HarperPerennial, paper, $16.99 (9780062956033). 364.16. As she did in her previous book, Lady Killers (2017), [...]

* The Ministry for the Future. By Kim Stanley Robinson. Oct. 2020. 480p. Orbit, $28 (9780316300131); e-book, $14.99 (9780316300162). The 2025 Paris Agreement begets the 'Ministry for the Future,' led [...]

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket. By Benjamin Lorr. Sept. 2020. 336p. Avery, $27 (9780553459395). 381.41. Some food books leave a bad taste in [...]

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. By Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West. Aug. 2020. 352p. Random, $30 (9780525509189). 149. With the mounds of 'infotainment' [...]

Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park. By Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen. June 2020.352p. Penguin, paper, $17 (9780143134510). 791.06. Reading [...]

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem. By Sandra Tsing Loh. June 2020. 304p. Norton, $25.95 (9780393249200). 818. Middle age comes at you fast, and Loh's (The [...]

Out of Body. By Jeffrey Ford. May 2020. 176p. Tor, paper, $15.99 (9781250250155); e-book, $3.99 (9781250250148). Librarian Owen's quiet small-town life in Westwend is upended when he witnesses a murder [...]

Sea Change. By Nancy Kress. Apr. 2020. 192p. Tachyon, $15.95 (97816169633161; e-book, $9.99 (9781616963323). Kress' latest is one woman's story of climate change, espionage, and how the political is intensely [...]

The Beetle. By Richard Marsh. Apr. 2020. 400p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $14.99 (9781492699712). The new Haunted Library of Horror Classics, produced by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press, [...]

The Happy Stepcouple: How Couples with Stepchildren Can Strengthen Their Relationships. By Rachelle Katz. Feb. 2020. 224p. Rowman & Littlefield, $28 (9781538130643). 306.8747. Experienced therapist and stepmother Katz advises those [...]

Prosper's Demon. By K. J. Parker. Jan. 2020. Tor, paper, $11.99 (9781250260512); e-book, $3.99 (9781250260505). A mysterious exorcist faces the ultimate challenge: fight the possession of the most intelligent, well-loved [...]

Burn the Dark. By S. A. Hunt. Jan. 2020.384p. Tor, paper, $17.99 (9781250306432); e-book, $9.99 (9781250306418). An ambitious YouTube celeb gives her viewers more than they bargained for in this [...]

The RBG Way: Secrets of Success of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. By Rebecca Gibian. Dec. 2019. 206p. Skyhorse, paper, $17.99 (9781510749580). 340. If you yearn to achieve success like Ruth Bader [...]

A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens. By Silvana Condemi and Francois Savatier. Nov. 2019. 160p. Experiment, paper, $14.95 (97816151960431. 599.93. For those who need their science [...]

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini. By Joe Posnanski. Oct. 2019.336p. Avid Reader, $28 (9781501137235). 793.8. In the shadowy land between truth and fiction, magic and illusion hold court. [...]

Desdemona and the Deep. By C. S. E. Cooney. July 2019.224p. Tor, paper, $14.99 (9781250229830); e-book, $3.99 (9781250229823). Seafall is the nexus of three worlds in which magic, history, and [...]

* Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction. By Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson. Sept. 2019. 352p. Quirk, $19.99 (9781683691389). 813. Some you knew, others [...]

The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible. Ed. by Catherine Burns. Mar. 2019.368p. Crown Archetype, $25 (9781101904428). 808. There's something essentially human and intimate about sharing [...]

* Down among the Sticks and Bones. By Seanan McGuire. June 2017.192p. Tor, $17.99 (9780765392039). Many fairy tales begin this way: neglectful parents, a kindly grandmother, and a loss. We [...]

One Perfect Lie. By Lisa Scottoline. Apr. 2017.384p. St. Martin's, $27.99 (9781250099563); e-book, $14.99 (9781250099587). Central Valley High's new government teacher and assistant baseball coach, Chris Brennan, is looking for […]

Medusa Uploaded. By Emily Devenport. May 2018. 320p. Tor, paper, $15.99 (9781250169341); e-book, $9.99 (9781250169327). Oichi toils in the bowels of Olympia, cruising across the stars in service of the [...]

* Witchmark. By C. L. Polk. June 2018. 320p. Tor, paper, $15.99 (9781250162687); e-book (9780765398970). The magnetically handsome Tristan brings a dying man to Dr. Miles Singer's doorstep, aware of [...]

Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away. By Stephen Lancaster. Apr. 2018. 240p. Llewellyn, paper, $16.99 (9780738755519). 133. Paranormal investigator Lancaster (True Casefiles of a Paranormal Investigator, 2012) [...]

Outpost. By W. Michael Gear. Feb. 2018.432p. DAW, $26 (9780756413378). On the distant planet Donovan, the realities of colonization meet the cold, hard demands of corporate overlords. In the years [...]

* Beneath the Sugar Sky. By Seanan McGuire. Jan. 2018. 176p. Tor, $17.99 (9780765393586). McGuire's latest Wayward Children book (after Down among the Sticks and Bones, 2017) laces the threads [...]

A Thousand Nights. By E. K. Johnston. 2015. 336p. Hyperion, $18.99 (9781484722275). Gr. 9-12. This fantasy, rich with layers of legend and meaning, will captivate readers ready to embark on [...]

Year of No Clutter. By Eve O. Schaub. Mar. 2017. 320p. Sourcebooks, paper, $15.99 (97814926335561.616.85. Owning your mess is everywhere, from episodes of Hoarders to Marie Kondo books. Schaub (Year […]