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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…
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Beyond Superhero School: Let the Games Begin! by Gracie Dix

Brisk, suspense-driven, and character-focused. In the second installment of the Vork Chronicles, Dix thrusts her teenage superheroes into the public eye, where a live television game show turns their powers—and their deepest fears—into entertainment. After leaving Superhero School, Team HOPE…
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THE DRUID’S TATTOO: Best Girls Night Out Ever by James Gregory Kingston

A taut, inventive thriller where myth collides with modern danger. Kingston crafts a taut, genre-bending thriller where contemporary peril collides with ancient myth. Forced into Witness Protection as a child, Sara rebuilt her life on secrets—until the cartel comes back…
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The Day I Lost You by Ruth Mancini

A dark, cleverly constructed mystery. Mancini’s latest is a sharp, spiraling thriller in which a missing baby binds three adults to a past none of them can escape. Lauren has rebuilt her life in a quiet Spanish seaside town, trying…
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Legacy by The Chronicler

A gripping, character-driven saga of loyalty, power, and awakening. The arrival of a cosmic enemy forces an untrusted outsider into reluctant leadership in this assured fusion of epic fantasy and science fiction. Dark Angelus Everlast, feared as much as he…
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Bye-bye, Mama’s Milk by Elizabeth K. Arleo, MD

A gentle, reassuring story about growing up and letting go. Arleo’s Bye-bye, Mama’s Milk approaches the weaning process with sensitivity and clarity, giving voice to a milestone that children’s books frequently overlook. After nursing throughout her baby and toddler years,…
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Compulsory Figures by John Barton

A quietly devastating, deeply elegant poetry collection. A celebrated Canadian poet and former editor, John Barton turns to the terrain of his own past to examine how memory, loss, and lineage shape a life. Born in Edmonton during the early…
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All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly

A haunting, luminous poetry collection. Award-winning poet and essayist Streetly charts a life changed by loss, memory, and the magnetic pull of the Pacific Northwest in her compelling latest book. Six years after her adult stepsons vanished with their boat…
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Mortal Revenge by Ana Manwaring, Fernando León Torrens

Intense, harrowing, and profoundly gripping. Ana Manwaring and Fernando León Torrens deliver a taut, hard-hitting thriller that drops one man into a world where trust is dangerous and survival is never guaranteed. What should have been a simple visit home…
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The BIENNALE BOOK: Ten Foundations of Contemporary Art by Desmond Daniels

A penetrating, ambitious look at the biennales that define modern art’s imagination. Daniels’s debut in The Biennale Book is a tightly argued, sprawling study that lays bare the machinery of global art exhibitions and why they still matter in a…
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Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery by Maura Casey

Genuine, unflinching, and quietly absorbing… In her debut, Casey delivers a steady, clear-eyed portrait of a childhood defined by poverty, alcoholism, and the relentless weight of chronic illness. The youngest of six in a working-class Irish Catholic family, Casey grows…
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Rise of the TechPals (A Boy and His D.O.G. Book 2) by Jordan Hines

A fast-paced, inventive sequel packed with humor, teamwork, and escalating stakes. In Hines’s hilarious, high-energy sequel to A Boy and His D.O.G. series, Blu and his loyal robot partner are thrust back into action when supposedly defunct TechPals begin glitching…
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Coldwire: The StrangeLoom Trilogy #1 by Chloe Gong

Gritty, clever, and gripping. Gong’s latest is a sharp, immersive dystopian thriller where loyalty fractures, rebellion brews, and two intertwined destinies race toward a collision that could upend their world. In a future divided between a pristine virtual realm and…
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The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

A sharp and spirited gothic delight. Meyers delivers a lively blend of gothic mystery and comedic horror. Though descended from a long line of powerful witches, Mallory Fontaine’s only real talent is seeing ghosts—a gift that rarely pays the bills.…
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Reciprocating Karma by by Mark Nistor

A taut, atmospheric thriller of vengeance, guilt, and moral reckoning. Nistor’s gritty, intelligent thriller fuses psychological depth with procedural tension, taking readers on a descent into the moral underworld of karmic justice. Detective Cas Jain is still haunted by the…
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FINDING GOD IN VEGAS: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening By Donald Harold Young

A candid, gracefully written memoir of faith, identity, and hard-won peace. Young’s debut is an intimate and deeply affecting memoir that follows one man’s fall into spiritual emptiness and his slow, hard-won rediscovery of love and faith. Young begins his…
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A Bountiful Silence: & Other Poems by John Muro

Quiet, lyrical, and deeply reverent. Muro offers a luminous meditation on silence, memory, and the natural world in his latest book. Organized in three movements; The Seasons, The Sea and Sky, and The Heart and Hands, the poems move with…
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The Last Ghost: An Unexpected Occurrence by D.E. Ring

An elegant, haunting novel of quiet suspense, rich character work, and lingering philosophical depth. In Ring’s latest character-driven novel, everyday experience becomes a thoughtful exploration of loss, ambition, and the boundaries of reason. Joshua Stewart’s life seems to be perfect:…