Publication: The Path of Totality by Marie Zhuikov

Author Marie Zhuikov, has a new book coming out Feb. 11 from Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. “The Path of Totality,” is Zhuikov’s fourth book and her first collection of speculative fiction short stories. United by the power of appearances to deceive and captivate, the tales glisten with the magic and menace of everyday lives. A young man is mystified by why he can’t see an eclipse. A scammer falls for a woman he’s targeting. A nondescript gray house hides a secret from a curious woman walking her dog. A girl discovers a mummified Viking bog boy while on a birding tour. A college student gets trapped in a biosphere after hours. Hemingway’s stolen stories are found in New Jersey. Singing in the shower takes on a whole new meaning. And a librarian develops her own theories about the influence of trees.

“The Path of Totality” is available for 20% off presale ($19.96 plus shipping and handling) from Cornerstone Press until Feb. 10. After that, the cost will be $24.95 plus shipping and handling. Zhuikov is an award-winning science communicator for the Wisconsin Sea Grant Program. Her blog-memoir, “Meander North,” (2023) won a silver Midwest Book Award for nature writing. She also authored the Lake Superior and endangered animal-themed novels “Plover Landing” and “Eye of the Wolf.” And she edited and helped write Lake Superior Writer’s “Going Coastal” anthology of Lake Superior short stories, which earned an honorable mention in the Northeast Minnesota Book Awards (2017). For more information, visit marieZwrites.com.