The Lola Quartet

Disgraced journalist Gavin Sasaki returns home to coastal Florida in search of a former flame and a young girl who may be the daughter he never knew he had. A fan of dimestore detective novels, Gavin quickly finds himself in over his head as he chases answers in Emily St. John Mandel's gripping novel.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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