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3 days ago | earlybirdbooks.com | MacKenzie Stuart

The Vatican has shared that Pope Francis died at age 88, during the early hours of Easter Monday. Although he had been battling pneumonia for several weeks earlier this year, his death still came as a shock to the global Catholic community. He made his last public appearance just one day earlier, on Easter Sunday, when he greeted onlookers as he was driven around St. Peter's Square.

1 week ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Kayleigh Donaldson

In the early hours of a hot summer day in 1975, a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant has gone missing, sending the community into a panic. The young Barbara Van Laar, the teen daughter of the family that owns the summer camp, is known to almost everyone in the region. They also remember all too well the last time a Van Laar child disappeared: Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished 14 years ago, never to be found.

3 weeks ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Kayleigh Donaldson

Freida McFadden has quickly risen to become one of the biggest-selling crime writers of the 2020s. McFadden (the pen name of a writer and practicing physician specializing in brain injuries) started out as a self-published author before becoming a worldwide hit. Her most popular novel, The Housemaid, is set to become a major movie starring Sydney Sweeney. Her books blend mystery, domestic drama, and complicated women.

4 weeks ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Alicia Kort |Anya Seton

Known for the vast amount of research she put into her books, incredibly vivid details, and dark romances, Anya Seton’s historical fiction books—or biographical novels, as she preferred they be called—are still referenced today. She even inspired some historical romance writers, including Philippa Gregory, who wrote introductions for five of the reissues of Seton’s books.

4 weeks ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Orrin Grey |Ron Hansen |Sandrine Collette |Cameron Judd

Many readers will tell you that there’s no other writer quite like Cormac McCarthy, and few of his books are as infamous as Blood Meridian. Harold Bloom called it “not only the ultimate Western [but] the ultimate dark dramatization of violence,” while The New York Times wrote that the novel “comes at the reader like a slap in the face.”Filled with brutal violence and surreal lyricism, Blood Meridian is undeniably a tough act to follow.