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Seeking Shelter by Marie Howalt

An absolute page-turner… Howalt’s spectacular Moonless series, the saga of a group of rebels struggling to survive in a ruined world, continues where We Lost the Sky left off. The Florentine rebels, now the residents of a new settlement built…
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Waldwick: We hold these truths to be self evident that… by Kenneth Linde

A hard-hitting, poignant tale… Set in Cornwall, England and Virginia and southwestern Wisconsin in America from 1826 to 1871, Linde’s stunning latest weaves actual historical situations and people into a fictionalized narrative to tell the story of one man’s journey…
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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy: A Mental Health Industry Bonanza of Profit and Human Destruction by H. Nattanya Andersen

Extensive and compelling… Anderson challenges the basic assumptions about the PTSD treatment, drawing from her own experience of being diagnosed with PTSD after she survived an airplane engine explosion during work and the subsequent dismissal treatment at the hands of…
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The Adventures of Tooten and Ter Series by Chris McCloskey

Jaunty, funny, and fun… Aimed at middle graders, McCloskey’s entertaining books in The Adventures of Tooten and Ter Series detail the ongoing sleuthing exploits of a young boy and his dog. In A Nose for Crime, the first installment in…
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Followives by Irene Perali

A compelling, moving exploration of love, longing, and regrets… Perali’s compelling debut has it all – love, longing, self-doubt, search for identity, immigration issues, intense emotions, all packaged into a deeply engrossing account of five young women’s lives as they…
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Penchant for Darkness by J. Elizaga

A combination of vivid characterization and palpable tension, this slender novella makes for a page-turner… Elizaga gives new spin to the traditional war between angels and the demon from the Book of Revelation in her latest urban fantasy, uplifting the…
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Dick Hartmann Series by Richard V Rupp

  A sophisticated and strikingly fresh crime thriller series… The excellent first two installments in Rupp’s crime series featuring the seasoned FBI agent Dick Hartmann, who heads up San Francisco’s Violent Crime Squad, finds him dealing with cunning killers who…
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The Gemini Gate Series by Steven E. Wilde

  A tension-filled, entertaining SF thriller… A nuclear detonation on US soil pushes the world toward a global thermonuclear war, unleashing severe destruction in its wake in Wilde’s swiftly paced, engrossing SF series. In Omega Crisis, the first book in…
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Nathaniel’s Got the Blues by David L Heaney

A compelling, awe-inspiring tale… Heaney’s charming, captivating tale of Nathaniel, a fruit rat, is more of a pilgrimage of the inner soul rather than a physical journey of a bitter rat who has grown increasingly self-focused in his old age.…
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Not Cancelled: Canadian Caremongering in the face of COVID-19 by Heather Down and Catherine Kenwell

A brilliant collection that brings positivity, reflection, and joy in the face of COVID-19… Down and Kenwell bring hopefulness, longing, and a tone that is reflective and essentially Canadian to this nostalgic and excellent collection of 49 stories. In the…