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It Rhymes With Takei

by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin EisingerSupport your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Content: There is homophobia and mention of gay sex. It’s in the Graphic Novel section of the bookstore. In his previous memoir, They Called Us Enemy, Takei wrote about his time in the internment camps during World War II, but didn’t really elaborate on the rest of his life.…

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Sounds Like Love

by Ashley PostonFirst sentence: “Most summer nights in the small beach town of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, there was music at the Revelry.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Content: There is swearing, including multiple f-bombs, and some off-page sex. It’s in the Romance section of the bookstore. Joni grew up surrounded by two things: the ocean and music. Her parents…

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Alchemy of Secrets

by Stephanie GarberFirst sentence: “Holland St. James had been counting down the minutes until tonight.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Release date: October 7, 2025Review copy provided by the publisher. Content: There are some murders, and talk of deaths and killing, and some mild swearing. It will be in the Science-Fiction/Fantasy section (probably; it’s not really a…

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Audiobook: Great Black Hope

by Rob FranklinRead by Justice SmithSupport your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Or listen at Libro.fmContent: There is drug use and lots of drinking (by adults). There is also a lot of swearing, including many f-bombs. It’s in the Fiction section of the bookstore. When he’s arrested on drug possession in a small Long Island town, Smith – a queer Black Stanford graduate, trying to make…

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The Listeners

by Maggie StiefvaterFirst sentence: “The day the hotel changed forever began as any other.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! Content: There is some fade to black sex and actual Nazis. It’s in the Adult Fiction section of the bookstore. June Hudson has worked at the Avalon Hotel – a luxury hotel in the mountains of West Virginia – since her mother abandoned her at age 10.…

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Audiobook: Food Person

by Adam RobertsRead by Mia Hutchinson-ShawSupport your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Or listen at Libro.fmContent: There is swearing, including multiple f-bombs, and drug use. It’s in the Adult Fiction section of the bookstore. All Isabella wants to be is a food writer. Except in this age of viral stories and influencers, someone who just wants to focus on the food (and not be on…

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Faithbreaker

by Hannah KanerFirst sentence: “Hestra, god of hearths, felt the flame of Hseth’s coming.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Others in the series: Godkiller, SunbringerContent: There is swearing, including multiple f-bombs, off-screen sex, and lots and lots of violence. It’s in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section of the bookstore. Spoilers for the other two,…

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Monthly Round-up: May 2025

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Overdue

by Stephanie PerkinsFirst sentence: “I had already made one catastrophic decision earlier that week.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Release date: October 7, 2025Review copy provided by the publisher.Content: There is a lot of swearing, including multiple f-bombs, and some fade-to-black sex. It will be in the Romance section of the bookstore. Ingrid has been in a long-term…

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A Harvest of Hearts

by Andrea EamesFirst sentence: “They said that magic, real magic, not the shite that hedgewitches peddled with all their little bags of powders and herbs, could only be performed in exchange for a human heart.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Content: There is some swearing (including one or two f-bombs), pretty gruesome deaths, and an off-page sex scene. It’s in the Romance…

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The Enchanted Greenhouse

by Sarah Beth DurstFirst sentence: “The plant was innocent.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Review copy provided by the publisher.Release date: July 15, 2025Others in the series: The SpellshopContent: There are some tense moments, and talk of death and loss. It will be in the Romance section of the bookstore. Terlu was the librarian who made Caz in The Spellshop, and was…

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Audiobook: Return to Sender

by Vera BrosgolRead by Michelle H. LeeSupport your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Or listen at Libro.fmContent: There are some intense moments and it begins with a dead parent. It’s in the Middle Grade (grades 3-5) section of the bookstore. Oliver has moved a lot in the past year after his dad passed away. He has desperately wanted two things: his own bedroom and to grow up and follow…

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The Way Around

by Nicholas TrioloFirst sentence: “In my early twenties, I decided to travel around the world.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Review copy provided by the publisher rep. Release date: July 8, 2025Content: There is some swearing, including multiple f-bombs. It will be in the Creative Nonfiction section (maybe?) of the Bookstore. The publisher rep, when he came to talk to…

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The Making of Biblical Womanhood

by Beth Allison BarrFirst sentence: “I never meant to be an activist.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Content: While this isn’t a true work of scholarship, there is scholarship there, and it might be a lot for some people. It’s in the Theology and Religion section of the bookstore. Barr wrote this book after her husband was fired from his job as youth pastor at a Baptist…

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Songs for Other People's Weddings

by David Levithan (with songs by Jens Lekman)First sentence: “Let’s start at the urinal.”Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Review copy given to me by my co-worker who needed someone to read it.Release date: August 5, 2025Content: There is some swearing, including multiple f-bombs. It will be in the Fiction section of the bookstore. J, a Swedish singer-songwriter, has…

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Audiobook: The Wager

by David GrannRead by Dion GrahamSupport your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Or listen at Libro.fmContent: There are some gruesome details about the status of the survivors once the ship wrecked, as well as mentions of cannibalism. It’s in the History section of the bookstore. In 1742, a small boat washed up on the shore of Brazil, holding 30 emaciated men. They said they were what…

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Audiobook: Great Big Beautiful Life

by Emily HenryRead by Julia Whelan Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Or listen at Libro.fmContent: There is some swearing, including multiple f-bombs, and some fade-to-black sex. It’s in the Romance section of the bookstore. Alice desperately wants the job writing the biography of one of the last, and most reclusive, members of the influential Ives family, Margaret. She’s…