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When I Kill You by B.A. Paris

Gripping, unsettling, and atmospheric… Nell Masters feels watched. Strange calls, anonymous flowers, and a constant sense of unease follow her everywhere. She has reason to worry—Nell is hiding a past she’s never shared, even with her partner, Alex, who carries…
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Blood Rivalry by Paul Attaway

A high-stakes, compulsively readable political thriller. Attaway’s third installment in the Atkins Family Low Country Saga takes readers into a tightly coiled narrative where reputations harden into myth, power is exercised quietly, and old violence continues to dictate present-day lives.…
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Aspiring Child: A Biography of Mary W. Shelley in Sonnets by Ted Morrissey

Quietly radical and intellectually precise. Morrissey blends poetic biography with quiet literary reflection in his latest book. Written as sonnets and prose addressed directly to Mary Shelley, the work forgoes a conventional life narrative in favor of a deeply human…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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Prison of Now by Jon F. Harmon

Controlled, reflective, and psychologically precise… In his latest book, Harmon examines what happens when a man can no longer outrun the consequences of his own hesitation. Fifty-seven-year-old Tyler Manion is overwhelmed by a life closing in on him from every…
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Afterburn by Michael Bodhi Green

A sharp, precise, and quietly brutal SF tale… Green takes readers into a broken America where surveillance is constant, ideology is lethal, and escape lies off-planet. It is 2070, and the American dream has collapsed into detention zones, surveillance drones,…
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The ME Factor: Your Secret Weapon for Author Visibility by Lisa Towles

Thoughtful, exacting, and quietly radical; a redefinition of what it means to be visible as an author. Towles, a bestselling thriller author with fourteen published novels, opens her latest book with a stark question: in a marketplace saturated with books…
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My Diecast Life by Dan Vado

A restrained, penetrating memoir of childhood and inherited identity. Vado’s memoir offers a measured, unsentimental examination of how a child learns to survive within the overlapping pressures of family, culture, and unspoken rules. The book’s frame is deceptively simple. Now…
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Children of Anzulla: Draxton & Kellan: Finding Love in the World of Titans – M/M Sci-Fi Fantasy by Kashel Char

Hot, cerebral, and relentlessly vivid.  Char’s ambitious, genre-blending novel fuses science fiction, fantasy, and M/M romance into a high-stakes narrative driven by obsession, secrecy, and desire. Set primarily in South Africa’s Cradle of Mankind, the story follows Draxton Dubois, a…
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Mask of Romulus by Mark Jamilkowski

A cinematic epic of empire, prophecy, and the human cost of power. In this ambitious historical novel, Jamilkowski draws Rome and India into dialogue through power, prophecy, and inner conflict. Rome was born from prophecy. Centuries later, Augustus faces war,…
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Pastoral Suite – Poems by John Muro

Tender, luminous, and mindful. In his second book, Muro invites readers into those in-between hours when the noise of the world falls away and quiet, solitary skies begin to speak. From the opening poem, “Aubade,” his method is clear: slow…
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By Artificial Means (The Mechanic’s Diary Book 4) by Ian Domowitz

A tense, idea-driven SF tale that questions who gets to shape the mind. A runaway artificial intelligence collides with alchemy, neuroscience, and virtual reality in Domowitz’s speculative novel. Natalie makes her living upgrading illegal brain implants called twinners—AI chips that…
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Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell

A raw, and unsparing memoir that explores survival, family betrayal, systemic failure, and the fierce will to keep living when the world offers no safety. “Please, God, take the pain away,” Caldwell writes at the opening of the book, moments…
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The Secret Buttons by Ellen M. Shapiro

Spare, intimate, and deeply moving. Set between Nazi-occupied Vienna and wartime rural England, Shapiro’s novel traces two sisters as they are pushed from sheltered family life into early, uncompromising independence. When Anni and Rosie leave Vienna, they carry more than…
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Witness Elimination: Vigilante Justice (Nick Justin Chronicles # 2) by Scott Johni

Darkly methodical and sharply written. In the second volume of the Nick Justin Chronicles, Johni takes readers into a Florida shaped by storms, corruption, and quiet war, where survival depends less on justice than on who is willing to act…
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Animal Conquest: General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms by David Bush

Vivid, lush, and beautifully told… Bush’s fifth installment in the General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms series is an ambitious allegory that reimagines the Crusades through talking animals, blending history, morality, and adventure. In 1210, Jean, a…
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IN THE COMPANY OF WHALES by Judy Taylor

A quietly powerful tale that blends environmental urgency with intimate character study. In Taylor’s latest novel, a washed-up punk rocker living on the margins of a Pacific Northwest coastal town is forced out of survival mode when nineteen killer whales…
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QUEER JUSTICE: a novel by Alex Charns

Grim, intelligent, and quietly explosive. Set against the political tensions of 1960s Washington, Charns’s latest novel traces the cost of truth in a system engineered to suppress it. 1966, Washington. When George Smith, a jailed Black teenager, claims he holds…
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Escala’s Wish (Tales of Valla Book 1) by David James

Emotionally precise, darkly enchanting, and hard to put down. James opens the Tales from Valla series with a single, impulsive act that ripples outward into devastating consequences. Escala Winter only wanted to understand love. One forbidden kiss leaves a mortal…
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Cone and Skate by Amy Nicolai (Author), Christina Michalos (Illustrator)

A fun and spirited story of unexpected adventure and gentle self-discovery. Nicolai’s latest is a brisk, good-humored picture book that examines momentum, fear, and self-discovery through an unlikely pairing. Cone, a traffic cone content with routine, spends her days observing…