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The Elysium Heist

by: Y.M. Resnik

July 31, 2025, Solaris

304 pages

Review By: Valerie Estelle Frankel

As Psylina explains to her sister, the seductive casino worker Psalome the Dazzler, in Y.M. Resnik’s The Elysium Heist, they may be s...

Homebound

by: Portia Elan

May 5, 2026, Scribner

304 pages

I feel duty bound, as a writer, to warn you that before you pick up a copy of Portia Elan’s debut Homebound, you should finish whatever you are working on. Firstly, because I could not put it down...

When You’re Brave Enough

by: Rebecca Bendheim

April 7, 2026, Viking Books for Young Readers

302 pages

When I was in eight grade, I decided I was done being seen as a nerd. I would become a popular girl with loads of friends (who still got very good grades). The grand plan? Attend a sleep away camp where nobody knew me, use my acting s...

All Afternoon

by: Susan Kleinman

April 21, 2026, VOlume36 Books

320 Pages

It is a difficult thing to be a woman, although the exact details of the struggle vary based on person place and time. For me, it’s about the pressure to try and do it all – career woman, domestic Goddess, hobbies that could be a second job. For Mariyln Weisfeld...

Hanna, Homeschooler

by: Suki Wessling, illustrated by Megan Trever Ryan

January 1, 2016, Chatoyant

134 pages

reviewed by: Valerie Estelle Frankel

Author Suki Wessling explains in her afterward that she wrote her children’s book Hanna, Homeschooler ...