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Front table · August 2026
Featured
This month's book
The Black Choir of Detroit
Shelly Lyons Mac
"The rain came down like rust over the city."
From the roof of Michigan Central, photographer Lena Vale watches Detroit glow in fractured pieces, and beneath the factories and the churches something ancient is feeding.
A supernatural thriller sung in the city's own key.
Coming SoonFrom the press
Two more to start with
The Land of Milk and Honey
Gene Perritt
What if the Promised Land was never in the Middle East at all? Gene Perritt makes the scriptural, biological, and geological case for America as the land the old text describes. Read the argument, then test it against the land under your feet.
Coming SoonUp to Speed 2025: Artificial Intelligence
H.N.K. STILKO
Everything artificial intelligence actually did in 2025, told by someone who watched all of it. Every claim dated and sourced in the prose, so you can check it from a library shelf.
AvailableThe Shelf
The Up to Speed library
The month, the year, the receipts. Twenty volumes and counting, all by H.N.K. STILKO.
The People
Our authors
Gene Perritt
Teacher and author of a five-book series that begins with The Land of Milk and Honey.
Shelly Lyons Mac
Detroit novelist. Her debut hymn to the city arrives this year.
H.N.K. STILKO
House author of the Up to Speed library. Nobody reads more so you can read less.