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Good Night My Blessing by Glo Rose

A simple rhyming picture book that’s all things love and heart… Rose offers a bedtime story in her latest book, resourcefully delving into mother-child connection. The book starts with the mother’s gentle words: “As I tuck you into night,/ This…
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The House on Liberty Street by Frances Rivetti

Fast-paced and suspenseful… A wild roller coaster of a story. Rivetti explores family, relationships, adaptability, change, and acceptance in this immersive thriller. It’s Christmas Eve. With festive tables set and a roaring fire warming her Northern California Victorian house parlor,…
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Eva’s Promise by M L Bull

A poignant meditation on love and promise… Bull explores love, marriage, and duty in her moving latest novel. Life seems to be treating the thirty-three-year-old Eva Rose Lucas fairly: she has a beautiful home, a loving husband, and a little…
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The Prophecy of the Heron: An AI Dystopia Novel Craig Stanfill

A wonderfully complex and thoroughly immersive book perfect for readers who grew up on dystopian YA… Set in a futuristic dystopian realm in which personal freedom is long-dead, Stanfill’s second installment in the AI Dystopia series offers a grand-scale narrative…
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Teaching Literature for Cognitive Development: A Double Perspective by Don Gutteridge

Slender and precise… An immersive study. Drawing on current curriculum, the work and research of renowned scholars, and especially his own teaching experience, Gutteridge examines the nature of student classification based on their understanding of literature, and its devastating impacts…
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The Madigan Chronicles Books #1-4 by Marieke Lexmond

A tantalizingly absorbing series that will leave readers yearning for more… Lexmond’s series kicker in The Madigan Chronicles serves up fiery protagonists, mystical world-building, and plenty of surprising twists. The Madigan family, a long-line of powerful witches, is the keeper…
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Dreams of Song Times by Amy L. Bernstein

Poignant, raw, original, and thoroughly absorbing…  Vivid characters, a dash of romance, and ratcheted-up stakes keep readers invested in Bernstein’s gripping coming-of-age novel. Sixteen-year-old Ell Gossamer has always struggled with her human-mermaid hybrid identity. When Ahr and Per, her two…
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The Glass Witch by Sara Raztresen

An edge-of-the-seat kind of page-turning fantasy romance…   An icy winter landscape and a forbidden romance set the mood for Raztresen’s debut fantasy novel. The Ringlands is a continent divided into four seasonal realms. When a Summer tragedy wreaks havoc in…
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The Bridge to Magic (The Sundered Web, #1) by Alex Thornbury

Expertly crafted and highly readable… Mesmerising.  A horde of surprizing plot twists and magical intrigue mark Thornbury’s debut installment in The Sundered Web series. With magic and its guardians banished to the deadlands, the Blight is advancing rapidly to destroy…
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How Women’s Hockey Saved the World* (and defeated Donald Trump, but not necessarily in that order) by M. Alexander Charns

Poignant, philosophical, humorous, and wise… A part handbook on hockey and a part political satire, Charns’s latest book is both wholly hilarious and deeply reflecting. The narrative straightaway delves into prejudice based on gender, especially in the field of ice…