No rth Pole by Justin Farmer 2025 The holiday season can be about a lot of things, but one thing just about everyone seems to agree on: it`s a good time to snuggle up at home, fix something warm to drink, and catch up on watching movies. Now some folks prefer to re-watch those perennial classics-- It`s A Wonderful Life , A Christmas Story , Elf ; while others prefer to continue the debate over Die Hard and Eyes Wide Shut being Christmas movies--or at the very least, not just a popcorn...

Lonely C rowds by Stephanie Wambugu (Little, Brown and Company) 2025) Lonely C rowds  is a sto ry  w ritten  with gentle force, its p rose often piercing and bittersweet.   Stephanie Wambugu´s  debut novel  follows the complex and multifaceted relationship between two queer African-American girls, tracing their connection at a Catholic girls school in  Rhode Island du ring the 1980s, and then continuing to a small progressive college in upstate New York before the two enter the competitive...

I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur 2025 ( Book*hug Press ) At the opening of Ben Ladouce ur´s powerful debut novel I Remember Lights, ...