Old Firehouse Books serves up titles with flavor and fantasy
Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins recommends a tasty cookbook and two tales unfolding in fantasy realms.
The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook
By Sana Javeri & Asha Loupy
Harvest
$35
March 2026
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From the publisher: From Diaspora Spice Co., the progressive spice company rooted in flavor and equity, comes a cookbook celebrating beautiful, simple, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka’s best family spice farms.
Diaspora Spice Co. sources the most flavorful, fresh spices in the world from 150 regenerative farms across South Asia—from elders, Indigenous communities, young changemakers, and brilliant multi-generational farming families across India and Sri Lanka who are leading the way in sustainable and climate change–resistant agriculture. Filled with culinary storytelling, “The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook” highlights these farmers and their spices with profiles and evocative photography, plus 85 recipes for simple, seasonal, and powerfully delicious meals.
Sana and Asha also note which recipes are the most beginner friendly, freezer friendly, good for a dinner party menu (like a Diwali feast!), and which lend themselves to be pantry building blocks, all for a super easy-to-navigate cookbook.
From Revati, co-owner: I’m always a bit hesitant to try cookbooks with Indian recipes since I really should be learning them from my mom, but this one was just too good! The photography is so vibrant and the descriptions really help you understand the importance of spices in these cuisines. You can enjoy just reading it, maybe try a couple of the simple recipes or even be a little adventurous and make some dosa batter!
Defy the Dusk
By Danielle L. Jensen
Del Rey
$36
November 2026
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From the publisher: In the Sundered world, there are two options: Ride the dawn, or face what rises in the night.Twenty years ago, Lirien’s magic fractured the world and unleashed nocturnal creatures that brought civilization to its knees. Amidst the carnage came salvation: The most powerful survivors were invited to board Dawnrider, a high-speed rig that would deliver those aboard into a new era. The rest of humanity was left to die. Instead, a king rose from the darkness to lead them.
From Teresa, co-owner: Devoured this book sitting on a beach over the summer and the first thing I did was start it again. I was blown away by the sheer talent of world building Jensen has. Don’t get me started on the romance between Lirien & Vox…Jensen has cemented herself a god when it comes to the enemy to lovers trope.
The Thrice-Bound Fool
By Christopher Buehlman
Tor Books
$29.99
October 2026
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From the publisher: Professional thief and inveterate trickster Kinch Na Shannack has always enjoyed a good book. But now his life, and the future of all of Manreach, depends on deciphering a very bad book indeed; a stolen, sentient tome that tries to kill him every time he opens it—and often when it’s closed.
Galva, veteran of the goblin wars and death’s sworn handmaiden, has vowed to protect Kinch while he mines the book for its dark magic and even darker secrets. She does so not for Kinch’s sake—though the cheeky bastard is growing on her—but because the book is the key to stopping the shadowy tyrants out to kill the queen she serves, and loves.
The ruthless, all-seeing Taker’s Guild dogs their every step, and thief and knight must flee the known world entirely if they hope to succeed. But trouble finds Kinch wherever he goes, and the pair may have traded the devil they know for horrors far darker and hungrier as they enter lands unknown.
From Zane, bookseller: You simply gotta be on the lookout for when Christopher Buehlman publishes new stuff. This is the sequel to “The Blacktongue Thief,” to which “The Daughter’s War” is the prequel, and if either of those are already your favorite fantasy novel then you have irreproachable taste in fantasy novels and we are now friends.
As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section — SunLit — we’re featuring staff picks from book stores across the state. Read more.
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