Editorial Content for Strange Pictures
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Two murders, one lost child, an enigmatic blog, grieving parents, a seasoned journalist, several curious students, and a child psychologist. At face value they have little in common. But each is circling a set of mysteries where central clues include a series of drawings.
STRANGE PICTURES by Uketsu was a sensation in Japan and has been translated into English by Jim Rion. It is a fun puzzle of a story, and the drawings that are included help both the characters and readers figure out what is happening and how each part fits together. Read More
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A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning. A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message. A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbit hole that will reveal a horrifying reality. Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.
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A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning. A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message. A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbit hole that will reveal a horrifying reality. Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.
About the Book
The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) that has taken Japan by storm --- an eerie fresh take on mystery-horror in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.
An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance.
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning. A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message. A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbit hole that will reveal a horrifying reality. Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.
STRANGE PICTURES is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu --- an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.
Audiobook available, read by Andrew Grace
Editorial Content for The Forger's Requiem
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THE FORGER’S REQUIEM, which wraps up Bradford Morrow’s trilogy that began with THE FORGERS and continued with THE FORGER’S DAUGHTER, once again takes readers on a dark literary tour into the lives of professional forgers of classic novels.
Literary forger Henry Slader finds himself buried alive. Once he recognizes his fate, he gets his wits about him long enough to dig out of the loosely packed dirt encasing him and work his way to freedom. He was placed in a shallow grave by his two fiercest rivals: Will and Will’s daughter, Nicole. Read More
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Assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, literary forger Henry Slader awakens in a shallow grave. He exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will’s downfall, and make a fortune along the way --- armed with a devastating secret about Will’s past. Slader quickly draws in Will’s daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole’s skill grows, so does her devotion to --- and doubts about --- her father’s integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. She forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by FRANKENSTEIN author Mary Shelley --- planting within them the seeds of Slader’s doom.
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Assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, literary forger Henry Slader awakens in a shallow grave. He exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will’s downfall, and make a fortune along the way --- armed with a devastating secret about Will’s past. Slader quickly draws in Will’s daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole’s skill grows, so does her devotion to --- and doubts about --- her father’s integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. She forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by FRANKENSTEIN author Mary Shelley --- planting within them the seeds of Slader’s doom.
About the Book
A gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury and generations of dark family secrets, with Mary Shelley’s voice and life woven throughout.
Literary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed and disoriented, Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will’s downfall and make a fortune along the way --- armed with a devastating secret about Will’s past.
Slader quickly draws in Will’s daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole’s skill grows, so does her devotion to --- and doubts about --- her father’s integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. With breathtakingly precise background knowledge and virtuoso execution, Nicole forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by FRANKENSTEIN author Mary Shelley --- planting within them the seeds of Slader’s doom.
Moving between upstate New York, a village in Ireland, London and ending in a shocking standoff at the site of Mary Shelley’s grave in a coastal town in Southern England, THE FORGER'S REQUIEM is both a compelling stand-alone novel and the crescendo ending to the trilogy Joyce Carol Oates has called “lethally enthralling to read.”
Audiobook available, read by Christina Delaine
Editorial Content for We Lived on the Horizon
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In her previous two books, THE BOOK OF SPECULATION and LIGHT FROM OTHER STARS, Erika Swyler has crafted works of science fiction that also tackle important philosophical questions. In her third novel, she continues to do so, in a dystopian narrative that explores social injustice, privilege, and the power and limitations of technology. Read More
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A walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Over generations, an elite class has evolved from the descendants of those who gave up the most to found mankind’s last stronghold, called the Sainted. Saint Enita Malovis feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching. She is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix, filled with her knowledge and experience. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data. Soon, Enita and Nix are drawn into the growing war that could change everything between Bulwark’s hidden underclass and the programs that impose and maintain order.
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A walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Over generations, an elite class has evolved from the descendants of those who gave up the most to found mankind’s last stronghold, called the Sainted. Saint Enita Malovis feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching. She is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix, filled with her knowledge and experience. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data. Soon, Enita and Nix are drawn into the growing war that could change everything between Bulwark’s hidden underclass and the programs that impose and maintain order.
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The acclaimed author of the “dazzling” (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) THE BOOK OF SPECULATION returns with an engrossing new novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a revolution.
The city of Bulwark is aptly named. A walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Over generations, an elite class has evolved from the descendants of those who gave up the most to found mankind’s last stronghold, called the Sainted.
Saint Enita Malovis, long accustomed to luxury, feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching. The lone practitioner of her art, Enita is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix, filled with her knowledge and experience. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data. Soon, Enita and Nix are drawn into the growing war that could change everything between Bulwark’s hidden underclass and the programs that impose and maintain order.
A complex, imaginative and unforgettable novel, WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON grapples with concepts as varied as the human desire for utopia, body horror, and what the future holds for humanity and machine alike.
Audiobook available, read by Shiromi Arserio
January 17, 2025
Francesca, our Contest Coordinator, and I hunkered down on Wednesday to mail the prizes for the Year-End Bets On contest. My kitchen table had 80 books on it when we started the packing. A randomizer was used to select the winners --- and from there we tried to match readers with the books we thought they would enjoy reading from the genres that they noted in their entries. Yes, we took our roles as book concierges very seriously.
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January 15, 2025
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this winter. Read more about it, and enter our Winter Reading Contest by Thursday, January 16th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of BROOKE SHIELDS IS NOT ALLOWED TO GET OLD: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman by Brooke Shields with Rachel Bertsche, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
January 14, 2025
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This week, we are calling attention to our Winter Reading Contests and Feature, which we have brought back for a 10th year. On select days in January and February, we are hosting a series of 24-hour contests spotlighting a book releasing this winter and giving five lucky readers the chance to win it.