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EO-N: A novel by Dave Mason

A tautly paced and multifaceted tale of humanity and the power of compassion… Mason’s moving WWII novel takes place in the past and the present, as a once-idealistic biotech CEO stumbles into a seventy-four-year-old mystery that connects her to her…
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Crossing the Digital Faultline: 10 Leadership Rules to Win in the Age of Digitalization and Uncertainty by Sri Manchala

An informative, innovative compendium… Manchala’s debut is a must-read handbook for business leaders in deploying the right digital practices. A prominent researcher, consultant, and expert in digital-age business processes for many years, Manchala draws from his own experience of working…
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Loose Ends in Yokohama by Alex Lund

Reflective, biting, and engrossing… A compelling psychological study and a journey through life, Lund’s latest takes the reader on one man’s journey as he struggles to make peace with his yesterday after inconvenient details from his past begin to haunt…
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All His Works: On the Eighth Day by Ainny Klover

Imaginative and suspenseful … Klover’s suspense thriller follows Alex Bryn, a retired musician who finds himself entangled in his former lover’s murder investigation. As a musician, Alex Bryn had seen his fair share of success, but his music carrier didn’t…
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When Life Was like a Cucumber by Greg Wyss

Expansive, witty, and hugely satisfying…  A young man sets on a self-exploratory journey after his long overdue split from his wife in Wyss’s hilarious, satirical tale. It is 1971. Jeffrey Hesse, a recent graduate from Northeastern University, moves with his…
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Surulere, Lagos by Taiwo Aloba

A lean, searing celebration of a place rooted in hunger, violence, and intrigue… In this first-rate short collection of poetry and prose, Aloba recalls growing up in Lagos, capturing the essence of a vibrant, heaving city where people meander, both…
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Repenter: The Hidden Chapters: Players of the Game Book 1.5 by James McGowan

A thrilling ride… This thoroughly enthralling companion novella to Repenter, the first installment in the Players of the Game series, finds McGowan’s engaging antihero Ashe Stelfire on hunt for a lost adapting blade crafted by Gathiner, God of Invention. Emotions…
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Pigeon-Blood Red (3 book series) by Ed Duncan

A transfixing and highly readable series… Duncan’s electric action thriller trilogy features an endearing antihero, abundant action, and nonstop thrills. In the sharply realized series launcher, an ordinary job of retrieving his boss, Frank Litvak’s priceless pigeon-blood red ruby necklace…
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Boulder Girl, Remember Me When the Moon Hangs Low by Cynthia L. Clark

A riveting tale of love and obsession… Unhinged obsession of a sinister psychopath takes center stage in Clark’s thoroughly gripping suspense thriller. After dissolution of her unhappy decade-long marriage, thirty-year-old Lana Ross, a magazine editor for Boulder Essence, is set…
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Amir of Guelph by Albert Marsolais

A whopper of a near-future SF mystery… Set in Near-future, Marsolais’s excellent latest, a sweetly charming, delightedly entertaining tale of a group of people trying to unravel a government conspiracy examines friendship, family ties, and loyalty while probing bigger questions,…
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Demented by Joe Clark

Intense, dark, and an absolute page-turner… As much social commentary as crime drama, Clark’s solid latest finds a rape victim trying to deal with her past trauma. Cindy Foster was gang raped fifteen years ago after her then-boyfriend, the handsome…
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Penchant for Darkness by J. Elizaga

A combination of vivid characterization and palpable tension, this slender novella makes for a page-turner… Elizaga gives new spin to the traditional war between angels and the demon from the Book of Revelation in her latest urban fantasy, uplifting the…
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The Gemini Gate Series by Steven E. Wilde

  A tension-filled, entertaining SF thriller… A nuclear detonation on US soil pushes the world toward a global thermonuclear war, unleashing severe destruction in its wake in Wilde’s swiftly paced, engrossing SF series. In Omega Crisis, the first book in…
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Suzy Spitfire and the Snake Eyes of Venus by Joe Canzano

A white-knuckle, action-packed space thriller… In Canzano’s adrenaline-packed second installment in Suzy Spitfire series, Suzy seek to hunt a vicious serial killer on Venus but gets entangled in a violent gang war. Suzy has avenged her sister’s death, but now…
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The Albatross: Contact by Connor Mackay

An intelligent and gripping start to the ambitious space opera series… Mackay’s wonderfully complex, captivating first installment in the series finds humans and aliens over their heads in deep space intrigue as they journey across stars to battle a forbidding…
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The Influencer by R. T. W. Lipkin

Absolutely brilliant… Set in a far-future, Lipkin’s engrossing latest takes readers on a computer code’s journey to freedom. When Claude, a struggling programmer, created lovely Ash, he had nothing else but financial freedom on his mind. But the string of…
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Dark Descent into Desire by J.J. Sorel

Loaded with passion and sizzling sex, this is a steamy romance done right… Sorel’s latest is not only packed with scintillating love scenes but it is also hefty on plot and characterization. The handsome billionaire Blake Sinclair doesn’t do “relationships”,…
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Tales of the Starmen: Volume 1 by Nathan Burton

Thoroughly entertaining… a page turner! In his action-packed debut, Burton imagines the world in a far-future where all the planets in the universe are governed by a single powerful empire. The Solarium Empire has ruled the universe for centuries under…
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Great Grandma’s Shed: Marcum Road Follies by Helen Nickolson (reviewed by a 7th grader)

Nickolson tells the story of a preschooler with separation anxiety in her debut picture book. Katherine’s anxiety about staying away from her mother Helen is making her reluctant to go to school for her kindergarten, but Helen’s old stories about…
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Sinner, Saint or Serpent by John Anthony Miller

A deliciously readable tale… Set in New Orleans in 1926, Miller’s engrossing historical featuring ‘Justice’ Harper finds the investigative journalist in the middle of a high-profile murder investigation along with three women suspects. Investigative reporter ‘Justice’ Harper finds himself as…