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A young man with a price on his head rides into a Nevada town built around a busted silver mine and ends up working…
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Samantha Nelson is an A.V. Club contributor, freelance food and drinks writer, hardcore gamer and member of the Critical Hit podcast.
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Bipolar disorder has been in the fictional spotlight over the past year, afflicting the protagonists of both Homeland…
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Abandoned on the steps of a YMCA as a baby, the narrator of Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, is often met by…
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Felix J. Palma’s New York Times bestseller The Map Of Time was a charming, clever debut, keeping readers guessing…
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In Life Is Beautiful, a man uses his imagination to help his child cope with the horrors of the Holocaust. Vaddey…
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The classic epic features a man leaving home to travel somewhere he’s never been, meet many new people, and overcome…
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After his lunar landing, Buzz Aldrin fell into depression and alcoholism, unable to deal with the realities of being…
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In one section of Carol Rifka Brunt’s debut novel, Tell The Wolves I’m Home, a character talks about how being…
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Harriet Lane’s debut novel, Alys, Always opens with a catalyzing moment, as narrator Frances Thorpe witnesses a…
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Anouk Markovits’ English-language debut, I Am Forbidden, spans from the 1940s to 2012, but the changing times have…
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With its high-school setting, secret society, and love triangle, The Year Of The Gadfly is a novel for adults with…
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Brandon W. Jones’ debut novel, All Woman And Springtime, starts off as a gripping depiction of life in North Korea,…
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Regina O’Melveny had a great idea for a plot for her debut novel, and in better hands, The Book Of Madness And Cures…
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With George R.R. Martin dominating the New York Times bestseller list, Hugo-award winning author Elizabeth Bear is…
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War is hell, but it’s a hell we’ve learned to live with. For America, perpetual conflict has become the status quo.…
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Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s debut novel, Glow, opens in 1941, with an NAACP activist putting her daughter on a bus out…
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In the first century B.C., the Roman architect Vitruvius sought to make a name for himself by appealing to Caesar…
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Katawa Shoujo
Creator: Four Leaf Studios
Platforms: PC, Mac
Played on: PC
Price: Free
Hisao is in demand among his…
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Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 has an all new plot and characters, which lets players dive right in even if…