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Burning Desire Fades: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes, Part II by M. L. Stark

A disturbing tale of deception and lies… The second installment in The psychopath and The Girl in Black Prada Shoes series continues with Mary’s story as she finds herself further swallowed in a dark web of lies and deceits. The…
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Burning Desire: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes, Part I by M. L. Stark

Dark and intriguing… In Stark’s debut installment in the Girl in Black Prada Shoes trilogy, a middle-aged woman becomes prey to a manipulative psychopath. Fifty-year-old Mary is feeling insecure and unhappy: her husband of many decades Paul is unfaithful and…
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Driftless (Waldwick #3) by Kenneth Linde

Excellently crafted, incredible detailed… Linde explores age-old questions about marriage, family, and individual rights in this engrossing third installment in the Waldwick series. Fifteen years into their marriage, and Amy is feeling the disquiet of a marriage gone stale. Being…
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Make Our Country YUUUGE Again: Laira Succupy Ganders’ Unbelievable Journey with Tunnald Drump by Web Augustine

A hard-hitting political satire… In a witty, compelling narrative, Augustine trails the life and actions of Drump from before his election to the peak of the 2020 pandemic, delivering an immersive look at how the utter incompetence of the Drump…
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Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love by Marylee MacDonald

Startling, riveting, and compulsively readable… MacDonald recounts her life as an adoptee and how it influenced her psyche in this searing memoir. Filtered through decades of reflection and introspection and written with a haunting precision, the book narrates MacDonald’s life…
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Future Perfect Now: 365 visionary tapas on life, love, art and everything in between by Lewis Evans

A fresh, original, inspiring guide to living everyday life better… In this empowering guide, Evans takes readers on a personal journey, sharing his profound insights and charting ways to cultivate one’s understanding about the future to facilitate celebration of human…
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When Bodies Fall (Maggie Dunn Books Book 2) by Deborah Court

An entertaining blend of suspense and intrigue… Set in Scotland, Court’s deeply engrossing second installment in the Maggie Dunn Books finds Jane in the middle of a murder investigation. Trying to escape the forces who want to study her for…
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Firebug (Maxwell Muggs Book 1) by Wes Snowden

A compulsively readable suspense thriller… An investigation into a series of many deliberate fires in a row puts the investigative journalist Maxwell Muggs on the trail of a maniac killer in Snowden’s gripping latest. Maxwell Muggs, an investigative reporter and…
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Body Language by Marylee MacDonald

A mesmerizing collection… MacDonald’s remarkable insights and exquisite storytelling echo her characters’ longing to connect to others, and to life in her remarkable latest collection of twelve stories of love and longing. The vivid imagery of rural existence is a…
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Beyond the Goodnight Trail by Roy V Gaston

A stellar western… A wild and thrilling, offbeat ride through a rough Texas and New Mexico landscape, Gaston’s excellent saga takes readers on an exhilarating ride with a motley crew of cowboys across Texas to New Mexico Bosque Redondo Navajo…
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Perfect Series (2 books series) by D.D. Larsen

Relentlessly paced and deftly plotted… Larsen’s gripping erotic suspense series blends an affecting coming of age tale with a twisty, heavy on foreshadowing plot that’s slick with scorching hot romance and teenage drama. In the first book in the series,…
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Redefining Normal by Justin Black, Alexis Black

Brutally honest, often sad… A courageous chronicle of abuse, recovery, and success. This absorbing account by two young authors who, as adolescents, entered state’s fostering system is a gutsy account of fragility, abuse, and redemption. With a childhood marred by…
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The Alternative History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by M.D. Missaiel

A sentimental but honest SF tale… Saul Brutus, a fossil fuel lobbyist, and Speaksall, his partner in the futuristic Greco-Roman world, take readers on an exhilarating journey in Missaiel’s assured and eloquent debut, which mixes history, time travel, and quantum…
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The Human Snare by Rick Wood

Splendid… Deeply stirring and elegiac. Wood combines stunningly shot photographs with his own odyssey of travelling around the globe to tell the story of world’s decimation of wildlife in this beautiful and devastating yet hopeful account. Wood began his journey…
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Book Endings – A Call Numbers novel: Loss, Pain, and Revelations (Call Numbers, #2) by Syntell Smith

Riveting and complex… wholly entertaining. Set in 1994, this dynamic, deeply engrossing second installment in Smith’s Call Numbers series continues with Robin Walker’s story as he struggles to find his own place in world while trying to cope with his…
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The Elixirist: A Novel by Avraham Azrieli

Utterly compelling… A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. The lands of ancient Israel supply the backdrop to Azrieli’s fascinating and deeply intriguing latest, which explores a young man’s path to self-discovery and enlightenment. Determined to win the…
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Beyond The Surface by Trisha Ridinger McKee

Emotionally intelligent and gripping… McKee’s this rich, moving, and thoroughly stunning novel is a forceful and resonant portrayal of a woman who must face the demons from her own past to better her present and future. The seemingly content life…
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The Algerian Hoax: A New Michael Vaux Novel by Roger Croft

First-rate… A finely polished amalgam of conspiracies and intrigue. In Croft’s latest in the Michael Vox series, the relentless cycle of conspiracies and double dealings follows the former journalist Michael Vaux in Marseille, France, where he is on a top-secret…
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The Young by Nicholas John Powter

Thoroughly intriguing and lightning fast… In his engrossing debut, Powter takes readers on an exhilarating journey to a magical fantasy land where history has dwindled into myth, the peace and quiet is gradually becoming the thing of the past, and…
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Of Love & Of Betrayal (The Seven Keys of Hildegard Book 2) by David Dupuis

An intriguing, suspenseful conspiracy thriller, written elegantly and with vivid details… Gripping, meticulously researched, and full of surprises, Dupuis’s second installment in The Seven Keys of Hildegard series reveals the anarchy that lurks in shadows as the ancient keys inevitably…