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Editorial Content for Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind

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Pauline Finch

Hannah Arendt can be truthfully described as an anomaly, an enigma, an outlier, an icon, a rebel, a chameleon, a nuisance, and perhaps the greatest interdisciplinary philosopher of the 20th century. It’s difficult to choose a single description that comes close to encompassing the myriad facets of her presence in the world.   Read More

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Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents, Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Tracing anew Hannah Arendt’s journey from Königsberg to Paris, where she fled after being imprisoned in 1933, and finally to New York in 1941, Meyer illuminates her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism was a permanent challenge for her. Meyer’s account centers on two pivotal phases: Arendt’s years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM in 1951.

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Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents, Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Tracing anew Hannah Arendt’s journey from Königsberg to Paris, where she fled after being imprisoned in 1933, and finally to New York in 1941, Meyer illuminates her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism was a permanent challenge for her. Meyer’s account centers on two pivotal phases: Arendt’s years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM in 1951.

About the Book

The definitive, long-awaited and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century.

Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents --- from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, and the United States, where she was a citizen from 1950 --- Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day.

Tracing anew Arendt’s journey from Königsberg to Paris, where she fled after being imprisoned in 1933, and finally to New York in 1941, Meyer illuminates her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism was a permanent challenge for her. Meyer’s account centers on two pivotal phases --- Arendt’s years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM in 1951 --- providing not only a meticulous reconstruction of her life but also a compelling invitation to rethink her legacy for our times.

At a time of acute political polarization, with liberalism in crisis and urgent debates about freedom, responsibility and truth unfolding all around, Arendt’s writings and ideas resonate more powerfully than ever. Meyer’s account of her extraordinary life is groundbreaking and sensational, not just for his illuminating and peerless research, but also for his incisive exploration of what Arendt’s work has meant over the decades --- and continues to mean for us today.

Audiobook available, read by Gabra Zackman 

Editorial Content for Kiss Slay Replay: A Time Loop Novel

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Ray Palen

A must-read author in my home, Rachel Harrison has become one of the premier writers of feminist horror novels working today. Her latest, KISS SLAY REPLAY, features a gimmick that is beyond clever and keeps the pages turning to the very end. Read More

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Willa Sullivan is excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted. But this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off. Things start to look up, though, when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. Willa wakes up, and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. But as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu or something more sinister.

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Willa Sullivan is excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted. But this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off. Things start to look up, though, when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. Willa wakes up, and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. But as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu or something more sinister.

About the Book

Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of SO THIRSTY and PLAY NICE.

It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air --- and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends’ finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe.

But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.

Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death --- being an eternal wedding guest.

Audiobook available, read by Charlotte Lobdel 

Editorial Content for Daggerbound

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Ray Palen

DAGGERBOUND continues T. Kingfisher’s fantastical saga that began with SWORDHEART, which has an incredibly unique premise. Four hundred years earlier, three warriors were trapped inside enchanted swords, destined to be the eternal slave to whomever wielded said sword.  Read More

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Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down. This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who has been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel. He hates the curse that put him there, and he wants to hate Edmund. But the damned scholar is just so sweet and clever and kind. And while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.

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Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down. This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who has been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel. He hates the curse that put him there, and he wants to hate Edmund. But the damned scholar is just so sweet and clever and kind. And while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.

About the Book

New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher returns to the charming fantasy world of Swordheart in this delightful and unexpected new romantic adventure.

Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. Another great adventure for the ages.

But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, in desperation, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, instead of unsheathing a rusty, ancient weapon, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down.

This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who has been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel, and is angry as hell about it. He hates the curse that put him there, and he wants to hate Edmund, just as he has hated every wielder before him.

But the damned scholar is just so sweet and clever and kind. And while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.

Audiobook available, read by Jesse Vilinsky

Editorial Content for Lady of Uncanny Charms

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Pamela Kramer

Charlie N. Holmberg’s Whimbrel House novels feature magic, an admirable woman, an author, an alternate 19th-century world, some romance and plenty of evil. Now, in this fifth and final installment of her series, LADY OF UNCANNY CHARMS, we travel across the pond to where Owein --- originally the soul occupying the haunted house --- is due to be married. Read More

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Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he’s known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria has other plans in store for the centuries-old wizard. The queen is obsessed with preserving magic, and she believes Owein is the key to pursuing her lofty ambitions. Torn from his family, his home and his betrothed, Owein is pushed into the Queen’s League of Magicians, where he learns that the Crown’s upheaval of his life is only the beginning of his problems. Meanwhile, Cora must push aside her broken heart and use her own spells and resources to uncover truths that the queen wants hidden. As new threats, former loves, untapped spells and even older souls than Owein collide, his next choice could be his last.

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Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he’s known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria has other plans in store for the centuries-old wizard. The queen is obsessed with preserving magic, and she believes Owein is the key to pursuing her lofty ambitions. Torn from his family, his home and his betrothed, Owein is pushed into the Queen’s League of Magicians, where he learns that the Crown’s upheaval of his life is only the beginning of his problems. Meanwhile, Cora must push aside her broken heart and use her own spells and resources to uncover truths that the queen wants hidden. As new threats, former loves, untapped spells and even older souls than Owein collide, his next choice could be his last.

About the Book

In this thrilling final installment of the Whimbrel House series from Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg, Cora and Owein must uncover magical and secret conspiracies in the palace as the future they dreamed of is at stake.

Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he’s known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria has other plans in store for the centuries-old wizard. The queen is obsessed with preserving magic, and she believes Owein is the key to pursuing her lofty ambitions.

Torn from his family, his home and his betrothed, Owein is pushed into the Queen’s League of Magicians, where he learns that the Crown’s upheaval of his life is only the beginning of his problems. Meanwhile, Cora must push aside her broken heart and use her own spells and resources to uncover truths that the queen wants hidden.

As new threats, former loves, untapped spells and even older souls than Owein collide, his next choice could be his last: forfeit his heart, body and magic to the insidious machinations of the Crown, or commit treason against it.

Audiobook available, read by Graham Halstead and Billie Fulford-Brown 

October 2, 2026

On Wednesday night, I went to see Min Jin Lee at her event in Montclair, NJ, where she was celebrating the release of her latest novel, AMERICAN HAGWON, which is one of my favorite books of 2026 and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Her previous novel, PACHINKO, came out in 2017 and garnered so many awards.

I had been in New York City for a conference that day. After some crazy traffic delays, I was able to slip into the green room and have a quick catch-up with Min before the event started. I loved even that brief meetup where we talked in shorthand, and I got to share my good wishes with her.

October 2026

October's Books on Screen roundup includes the films Verity, Sense and Sensibility, Klara and the Sun, Whalefall, Other Mommy and The Mosquito Bowl; the series premieres of "Carrie" on Prime Video and "East of Eden" on Netflix; the season premieres of CBS's "Tracker," USA Network's "The Rainmaker," and Prime Video's "The Terminal List"; the series finales of "A Tale of Two Cities" on MGM+ and "Marble Hall Murders" on PBS "Masterpiece"; the season finales of Apple TV's "Slow Horses" and USA Network's "Anna Pigeon"; the continuation of "R.J. Decker" on ABC and "Outlander: Blood of My Blood" on STARZ; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Frankenstein and Late Fame.

September 30, 2026

While talking about books with other readers enhances the reading experience, I love when the conversation includes an author as well. My book group was lucky enough to have Nadia Hashimi join us on Monday night to discuss her latest novel, CITY OF WIDOWS (see the photo above). The book follows three characters as the calendar is turning to August 31, 2021, when we were evacuating people from Afghanistan. For those who worked with the United States --- and those who spoke out against the Taliban --- there is a race to get on one of the final US flights leaving the country.

The Munich Affair by James Patterson and David Ellis

September 2026

We all are well aware of the atrocities that Adolf Hitler committed during his reign of terror. His ordering of the extinction of Jewish people was barbaric, and the ramifications of that and the other cruelties he imparted on millions cannot be justified in any way. He changed the course of history, first in Germany and then with his outreach to countries throughout Europe. His antisemitic feelings still have consequences today. 

Ten Perfect Guests by Jonathan Santlofer

September 2026

TEN PERFECT GUESTS by Jonathan Santlofer opens with 10 people being invited to a private island for a weekend memorial service for Victor D’Arcangelo, an artist who recently has died. Attendance is mandatory if they hope to reap part of the inheritance that he has left behind. All attendees arrive via first-class travel on planes and water vehicles. It feels very posh, and though there is tension among them, there is an expectation that this could be a pleasant weekend. 

The guests include Victor’s art dealers, a critic, his ex-wife, his son…you get the picture. And they are all in it for the money. 

Jonathan Santlofer, author of Ten Perfect Guests

When celebrated and enigmatic artist Victor D'Arcangelo dies unexpectedly, his nearest and dearest receive an irresistible summons: attend his weekend memorial --- or forfeit their inheritance. But once they arrive, the paradise begins to feel more like a prison. Someone knows their secrets. Someone wants revenge. As the weekend spirals into chaos, one question hangs in the sultry, tropical air: Who, if anyone, will survive? This time, the masterpiece may be murder.