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Odessa by Gabrielle Sher

Odessa by Gabrielle Sher

In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a...

Hid­den River by Sara Lipp­mann

Hid­den River by Sara Lipp­mann

Thirty-five year old Cassandra (aka Cass, Cassie, Cassidy, and Cassiopeia) Trout is going nowhere fast. Stuck in her hometown of Philadelphia, she spends her lackluster days working retail and running, and then rinse, repeat....

How To Be a Dissident by Gal Beck­er­man

How To Be a Dissident by Gal Beck­er­man

An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift How do we push back in a world where political...