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Happy pub day to Emily Franklin and LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS!

Emily has a very full calendar this month, check out her upcoming events and find more details at godine.com!

Now available online and at your favorite local bookstores, LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters—both those on the page and those who walk among us.

Happy pub day to DEATH IN THE STRIKE ZONE by Thomas Gilbert, author of HOW BASEBALL HAPPENED! Now available from godine.com and your favorite bookstores!

He threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball’s first star—and its first tragedy.
In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented something utterly new in baseball – modern pitching.
Then, in one fateful game he collapsed—and four days later, he was dead at the age of twenty-one.
Death in the Strike Zone is a remarkable journey into the past that will keep you on the edge of your seat and profoundly change how you see the game of baseball.

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The pub date for Emily Franklin’s LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS is almost here, and we can’t wait! Emily has an exciting lineup of events, starting with a pre-launch party at Newtonville Books in Newtonville, MA on March 25th!

Visit Newtonvillebooks.com for more details and check out all of Emily’s upcoming events for LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS on our website, godine.com.

LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS will be available everywhere on April 7th.

Now available are two new softcover editions of John Banville's novels, MEFISTO and THE NEWTON LETTER!

Inspired by the legend of Faust, MEFISTO is a dazzling, philosophical novel about genius, obsession, and the limits of rationality. With his trademark prose—elegant, luminous, and hypnotic—Banville transforms myth into a haunting study of human fragility and the borders of reality.

THE NEWTON LETTER is an unforgettably elegant tale of obsession and the fragile line between reason and desire. In this compact literary gem, a historian retreats to a quiet cottage in rural Ireland to complete a biography of Isaac Newton. Why, he must unravel, did Newton suffer a mental collapse in 1693, and why did he write such a strange letter to his friend John Locke—hinting at a personal and philosophical crisis?

Pick up a copy at your favorite bookstore or order online at godine.com

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We’re so pleased by the advance praise we’ve received for the upcoming LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS by Emily Franklin, including two starred reviews!

“For fans of Hamnet” —Booklist, Starred Review

“Delicious, spot-on” —Library Journal, Starred Review

In the stormy, scandalous summer of 1816, daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont changed the course of literature forever. But then—unlike her stepsister Mary Shelley—she was forgotten, until now.
With searing relevance to our here and now—of celebrity worship, climate disaster, of complicated femininity, Love & Other Monsters is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters—both those on the page and those who walk among us.

Available April 7th, 2026, see our website for more details: https://godine.com/products/love-other-monsters-available-april-2027

It’s not too late to order holiday gifts from Godine! Shop now at Godine.com or call us at (800) 344-4771 to request gift wrapping!

Three new editions are available as part of Godine’s Verba Mundi series: THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH, THE PROSPECTOR, and A VOID.

Franz Werfel’s THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH is the heroic story of resistance during the Armenian genocide. When the Turkish government ordered the deportation of Armenians, several villages in the mountains chose not to obey. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while holding out hope that the warships of the Allies would save them.

From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, THE PROSPECTOR is the search for treasure in a childhood Eden. Rich with sensuality and haunting resonance, by turns harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, THE PROSPECTOR is “a parable of the human condition” (Le Monde) by one of the most significant literary figures in the world today.

Georges Perec’s A VOID is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of displays Georges Perec’s virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E.

“A necessary book for anyone interested in why we see what we see when we visit American art museums….Stebbins generously, lucidly, and intelligently writes a history of changing taste.”—Art & Antiques

A sweeping history of changing critical standards and values in American art across 200 years. Art lovers, perplexed why their favorite artists are no longer on the walls of their local museums, will understand why change is constant. All art lovers will find a cautionary lesson about the unpredictable future.

A limited number of signed copies are still available when you order directly from godine.com!

“Argues that great literary works can guide us to appreciate virtue, honesty, and self-awareness in old age.....A guide to growing old with grace and wisdom.”—Kirkus

Change your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.
Time’s Bounty offers a view of age that differs greatly from our preconceptions—surprising, emancipating, sometimes even joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the generative discoveries that age occasions to the freedom that comes in life’s late chapters, when no company or institution or cause any longer owns us. At last, we are our own, in ways we could not imagine when younger.

TIME’S BOUNTY is available now from godine.com and your favorite bookstores!