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  Name of Book: Holy F*ck  Author: Joseph Incardona (trans Sam Taylor)  ISBN: 978-1-916725-25-6 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Type of book: 2000s? USA Georgia, summer, prostituion, Nevada, road trip, escape, run a way, religion ,hit, comedy  Year it was published: 2026 (2024)  Summary: (From goodreads) Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed, just like in the Bible. The Vatican is overjoyed—imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South. The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of people, it's what she does for a living. And that's precisely what's bothering the Vatican. For Luis Molina of the Savannah News, this story smells like a Pulitzer for sure. For the Vatican, it smells more like trouble. A saintly hooker isn't exactly presentable. A martyred saint, on the other hand, has a conveniently rewritten past. That’s a job...

  Name of Book: An Enigma by the Sea  Author: Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucenini (trans Gregory Downing) ISBN: 978-1-916725-19-5 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Part of a Series: Italian Mysteries by Fruttero and Lucentini (stand-alone, but previous ones included LOVERS OF NO FIXED ABODE and RUNAWAY HORSES)  Type of book: Italy, 1990s, Tuscany, winter, christmas holiday, depression, mystery, literary elements, coastal town life, beach, travel, holiday homes, murder, disappearances, romance, tarot  Year it was published: 2026 (originally 1991) Summary: (From goodreads) On the wintry Tuscan coast, the wealthy elite retreat to their lavish holiday homes. But the season turns sinister when a couple vanishes from a locked villa, and the body of a dubious count washes ashore, bludgeoned to death. With echoes of Agatha Christie and the erudite suspense of Umberto Eco, a sly meditation on class, illusion, and desire, this literary mystery is both sharply observant and darkly en...

  Name of Book: For Human Use Author: Sarah. G Pierce ISBN: 9780316586535 Type of book: Humor, horror, financial issues, dating, 2020s, death, modern culture about influencers, hinted grooming  Year it was published: 2026 Summary: An unforgettable debut, For Human Use is a twisted tale of modern love that bends every genre, sears itself into your brain, and presents a horrific romantic comedy unlike anything you’ve ever read before. ★ “An utterly ingenious horror-romcom, darkly zeitgeisty, and unnervingly plausible—funny as hell, too. You will not forget this book.” ―Heather Aimee O’Neill, author of Read With Jenna book club pick The Irish Goodbye Modern dating is dead. Sarah G. Pierce’s debut, For Human Use, is a glossy, razor-cut spiral into algorithmic obsession and capitalist absurdity where the dread hits hardest because it reads like a headline you’ve already scrolled past. With darkly funny dialogue and a premise that shouldn’t feel this plausible, Pierce lures you in w...