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A young woman has one minute to speak on a submission video to win a one-way trip to Mars, a location she views as the ultimate escape. As she barricades herself in a cottage by the sea and prepares to record, she examines her fixation on the colour red, shame,…

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A woman alone in a cabin. Isolated by choice. The sounds of her breath, her chair. The creak of her floorboards. Her wired jaw now unwired, but still. The tiny red light of her camera in the dark.

Meghan Greeley’s short novel Jawbone is remarkable. Truly, genuinely remarkable. As in singular. Arresting. Unique. As in written in language so tangible you could be bathing in it.

It has a plot, of course. A good one, an important one, about misunderstandings and the pain people cause and a contest for a trip to Mars. But the breathtaking scenery is…

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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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