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The Curse of Raven’s Rose Keep by Gregory Downey

  Intriguingly dark and satisfying… Gregory Downey beautifully blends seduction, suspense, and supernatural in this intriguing paranormal romance. Garrick, a mighty warrior, is back to his feudal lands after years of fighting for the king. He meets lovely Angela, a…
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The Book of Danzel: First Quarter by T.K. Lipps

Brilliantly written, darkly humorous, and original, The Book of Danzel is a must read… Depicting the first of four marking periods at Anchor Academy, the provocative and timely “The Book of Danzel” explores the underlying vulnerabilities of teenagers in a…
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Her Legend Lives in You: The Untold Goddess Story by Myron Clifton

  Vivid and original… Myron Clifton puts forth a fascinating mythological thesis about life’s emergence in Her Legend Lives in You. He presents the idea that life is created by mother goddess: God in a female form, opposing the argument…
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Goddess of the Gillani by Jim Hamilton

  A delightful, engrossing read… After Colony Ship New Hope, Jim Hamilton returns with a sophisticated sequel. Cassiopeia Evanland and Griffin Mayfir’s exploratory jump rides across the universe continue until a disgraced variant decides to exact revenge for Cassiopeia’s part…
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My Diary of You by Haley Peterson

  A chorus of emotional teenage voices… Peterson’s short collection captures delicate moments of love and heartbreak in high school years as the protagonist talks about falling in love, the misery of a broken heart, her regrets, and her grief.…
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Journey to the Son by Carla Carlisle

  Multi-layered, emotionally charged read… Journey to the Son narrates Carla A. Carlisle’s eight-year struggle filled with mental turmoil and moral dilemma to get Devon, her foster son, back from a difficult system and a manipulative, abusive birth mother. Years…
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Scooter Nation, Unapologetic Lives Series Book 2 by A.B. Funkhauser

  Brilliant… A must read. With a captivating prose, an excellent characterization, and her ability to revitalize the most mundane events with paramount implications, Funkhauser delivers her second book in the Unapologetic Lives series with an extra oomph. Funeral directors…
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Prairie Fire: A Top Secret Presidential Novel by Mike Shallenbergar

With its high narrative energy and fast-paced action, Prairie Fire makes for a quick read… After Recover and Terminate, his first Top-Secret Presidential novel, Shellenbergar returns once again to espionage genre with this absorbing, tightly plotted action thriller about uncovering…
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Birth Right: Galak’s Rising by Christina Goebel

  A brilliant start to the series… In a cyborg-ruled world where destruction of technology has reduced civilization to a few ancient tribes and secret underground dwellings, humans and Valki, the genetically enhanced humans, are barely surviving their brutal treatment…
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Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker by Warwick Gleeson

Dark and surprising, Gleeson’s modern twist on the world-famous classic tale is rich in characters and world building… Expertly combining hard-core science fiction and high fantasy, Gleeson tells the story of twenty-first century’s greatest sorcerer who sets out to save…
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Mari Why I needed to Return from The Future by Dr. Winfried Sedhoff

  Thoroughly engrossing… After crash-landing of his spaceship in early twenty-first century in Brisbane, Australia, Benjamin Ecclestone, the arbitrator of the late twenty-second century, meets lovely Mariana Jenkins and falls in love. But his stay in the current century is…
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Civil Hearts (Haunted Voices) by Claire Gem

  Seductively readable… Claire Gem brilliantly brings forth a blend of contemporary romance, historical fiction, and paranormal in Civil Hearts. Two years after losing her husband to brain cancer, Liv Larson buys a historic mansion in Camellia, a rural southern…
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Colony Ship New Hope: New Haven or Bust by Jim Hamilton

Superb! An engrossing novel full of intrigue… When crew of the New Hope, a Shoomar ship, left a dying planet behind to colonize another habitable planet, they never thought they would meet an unexpected fate upon awakening from their almost…
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Recover and Terminate: A Top Secret Presidential Novel By Mike Shellenbergar

  A nail-biting, stay-up-all-night action thriller… Two Vietnam vets are recruited and sent to Mexico by the President to locate the kidnaped daughter of a Texas US Senator in Shellenbergar’s deceptively simple yet clever Top Secret Presidential novel set in…