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False Front (Bishop Security #1) by Debbie Baldwin

  An intricately woven, arresting romantic thriller… Endless plot twists go hand in hand with psychological depth in this sizzling romantic thriller from Baldwin. Eight-year-old Emily Webster had lost her sense of “normal” after becoming a pawn in her billionaire…
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Phantom’s Mask (Chronicles of Avilésor: War of the Realms #2) by Sara A. Noë

An absolute stunner… The brilliant second installment in the Chronicles of Avilésor: War of the Realms series shows Noë at her most inventive, bringing out her ability to combine paranormal science fiction elements with deep human sentiment. Cato and his…
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Serum: A disease-free world comes at a deadly cost by Dennis Ogden

An engrossing tale… Ogden creates an intriguing ocean world in his engrossing latest SF novel. Eighteen years after her abduction, broken and pregnant Noi de Jesus joins the marine biologist Professor Marcus Glasson, her father’s close friend, to Yeppoon, Queensland…
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MONTAGNARD (The JD Cordell Action Series Book 2) by D.C. Gilbert

A rollicking, moving action thriller… In this swiftly paced, thrilling second installment in Gilbert’s The JD Cordell Action series, the situation, the enemies are new, but the heroes aren’t: JD Cordell and his four-legged companion Ajax return to take readers…
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The Good Book: Charms and Rituals of Frewyn by Michelle Franklin

Fascinatingly original and intriguing… Set in one of the kingdoms of her fantasy series, Franklin’s captivating book (companion to her fantasy world) is intended to provide the background about the customs of the southernmost country. When it comes to religion,…
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Starwallow: Book II of The Riven Country Series by Renée Carrier

  A quiet and hopeful literary tale that marvelously explores the meaning of life, friendship, and family… Carrier has outdone herself as she returns with this heartwarming second installment in The Riven Country Series that plunges readers back into the…
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Poverty Lodge by Gordon Pound

A rollicking adventure… Pound, a Vietnam War veteran in Australian Army, presents in uproarious detail the life on a ramshackle farmhouse on a rundown farm to tell the entertaining story of how the enterprise worked out after he decided to…
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The Detective Next Door by W C Gordon

  Darkly fascinating and original… An accidental murder, a dismembered corpse, and a web of lies haunts this gripping debut from Gordon. The protagonist is a regular cop who likes to do his duty with as much diligence as possible…
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The Ghosts of Hawthorn, Missouri (Heroes of Hawthorn) by James Peet

  Penetrating in particulars, extensive in scope, this is a triumph… Peet makes his foray into literary fiction with this Intense and haunting debut marked with memorable characters, sparkling prose, and a brilliantly conceived story. After his mother’s tragic death,…
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A Booktiful Love by Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Beautifully executed, astonishing collection… In his latest evocative collection, Akinyemi reflects on love, relationships, and mortality along with nitty gritty of everyday life, revealing the many ways that life goes on. In “Isolation” and “Lockdown,” Akinyemi suffuses familiar landscapes with…
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The Winged Lion: Marion’s Match by Patrick D. Carlson

A dazzling dystopian tale… Set in 2090, this first installment of Carlson’s excellent dystopian series takes readers on an exhilarating journey as a teenager’s nonconformist principles become a catalyst for others to find hope in a world drowning in despair.…
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Dylan’s Birthday Present (Little Polyglot Adventures) by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos

Insightful, informative, and fun… A quest to find a lost birthday present takes Victor’s young protagonist on an insightful journey in this endearing debut installment in the series. It’s little Dylan’s birthday, and he is excited to show his birthday…
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The Happy Couple by Samantha Hayes

A quick read… In Hayes’s latest thriller, a woman comes across a dark, twisted truth while trying to look into her husband’s disappearance. Finding it hard to move on after her husband Will’s disappearance a year ago, Jo is contemplating…
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The Loneliness of the Deep Space Cargoist (The Cargoist Book 1) by JS Carter Gilson

A dazzling debut… Rich in sumptuous detail despite its economical prose, Gilson’s fascinating debut tells the story of a space cargoist who after her ship’s collision with space debris finds a worst fate awaits her than a lonely death in…
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Marmotte’s Journey by mari reiza

A poignant meditation on finding one’s own voice… A coming-of-age story, Reiza’s fantastic latest chronicles the journey of a young woman struggling to find her own identity. Unable to put herself first, Marmotte’s life is marked by consistent disregard from…
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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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Department of Temporal Adjustment Series (3 books) by Veronica R. Tabares

A page-turner… A fresh, funny twist to time travel, Tabares’s outstandingly hilarious series tells the story of a time-traveler mother of four who gets entangled into a set of hilarious situations while attempting to fix the timeline shift. In the…
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Please Don’t Say An X Word by W. Nikola-Lisa

Delightful and deeply engrossing… With wit, sensitivity, and insight, award-winning author W. Nikola-Lisa explores the key issue of verbal bullying in this fabulous concept picture book. The narrative consists of fancy, funny words starting with each letter of the alphabet…
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The Songbirds: Set Yourself Free by Alif

A meditation on love’s complicated intimacies… Set in South India and London, Alif’s brilliant novel beautifully captures the melancholy of longing and love. The son of an “upper-class family” Kasim falls in love with “the poor distant relation” Sumera, the…
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On the Trail of the Ruthless Warlock by Lynne Armstrong-Jones

  Thrilling and engrossing… An unlikely band of travelers seeking to destroy a deadly Warlock sets on a dangerous quest in Armstrong-Jones’s engrossing latest fantasy. There are concerns about an evil force on the rise, but when destruction hits next…