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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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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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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…
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Some Love Lasts by Tim Hunniecutt

A subtle, deeply penetrating meditation on first love, memory, and the moments that shape who we become. Hunniecutt’s quietly powerful coming-of-age novel captures the fragile intensity of first love and the lasting imprint it leaves. Madi expects a quiet summer…
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Space Station by K.R. Gadeken

Meditative, unsettling, and emotionally precise. Gadeken’s reflective, allegorical novella uses the trappings of science fiction to explore life, choice, and the evolving nature of identity. At the heart of the novella is a space station built of interconnected spheres, each…
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The ICE Murders (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond, Book 10) by Geoffrey M Cooper

Lean, tense, and politically charged; a page-turner. In the tenth entry in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series, Cooper takes readers on a tense, morally urgent investigation where political power, institutional secrecy, and murder collide.  Dr. Abina Owusu, a…
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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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The First Shot (The Bourbon Chronicles #1) by Lance Lassen

A high-speed romp with an unexpected emotional core. Lassen launches The Bourbon Chronicles with a high-velocity opening that blends outlaw humanity, hard physics, and bourbon-fueled survival. When 23-year-old physics prodigy Bill Griffin perfects the first wormhole drive, he expects history,…
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The Image Maker by Chris Flanders

Brisk, absorbing, and grounded in real lives, an industrial epic with a human heartbeat. Flanders’s ambitious and richly textured historical novel brings the birth of the American oil industry vividly to life through three intersecting lives. In the aftermath of…
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THE MAGIC CIRCLE by C.F. Hayes

Uncompromising,  provocative, and thought-provoking. Hayes probes the intersections of faith, power, sexuality, and trauma with unflinching intensity in this challenging and intellectually ambitious novel. Through the posthumous reconstruction of a diary, the narrative examines the life of Mary Armstrong, the…
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No Quarter: Empires in the Wilderness by David M. Howell

A cinematic historical drama that binds private struggle to global consequence. Howell’s ambitious and deeply immersive historical novel captures the rupture and uncertainty of the mid-eighteenth century with striking clarity. Caleb Rafferty and Daireann Dwyer flee to the colonies seeking…