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Schism (The Battle for Darracia #1) by Michael Phillip Cash

A captivating start to what promises to be an epic space fable… The first volume in Cash’s The Battle for Darracia trilogy is set centuries into a future shaped by violence, bloodshed, and pride, where varied alien races are threatened…
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The Knowing (Bulwark Anthology, #1) by Brit Lunden

Exciting to read, engrossing, and satisfying… A phenomenal read. Lunden continues the story of Bulwark by delving into the backstory of JB Stratton, a character who made an appearance in the original Bulwark novella. With his beloved wife Ellie long-gone…
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The After House (A Haunting on Long Island Series Book 3) by Michael Phillip Cash

Poignant, witty, and propulsive… A standout gothic tale. Cash returns with this fine blend of gothic romance and humor in his latest novel. A year after getting divorce, the lovely Remy Galway buys a 300-year-old cottage in historic Cold Spring…
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The Revenge of Hatathor (The Sphere of Destiny Trilogy Book 3) by Nassim Odin

A captivating premise and great fun… Odin creates a compelling and intriguing SF tale in this concluding installment in The Sphere of Destiny Trilogy, delving into the intricacies of life, love, revenge, and redemption. Al-Khidr is back on Lyra once…
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Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine by L. Andrew Cooper

A gritty tale of modern-day good versus evil. Cooper’s latest novel follows a young woman as she becomes forced to battle supernatural treachery after a tragic accident kills her friends. It was a regular night out for Lily Henshaw and…
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Last Worst Hope by Lee Hunt

A Cracking page-turner with an unlikely group of misfits… Hunt’s highly gripping standalone, set in the world of his Dynamicist Trilogy, is as much a cerebral story as an action-driven tale. With the wizard Nehring Ardgour and his pawn from…
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The Glimpse by Lis Bensley

An engrossing read…Entertaining, poignant, and meaningful. After facing a life-altering event, a budding artist escapes to a small-town life to raise her daughter born out of wedlock and navigates inspiration and redemption in Bensley’s poignant novel. Liza Baker, a rising…
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Skyehag (The Torrport Diaries Book 2) by Bettyanne Twigg (Author), Albert Marsolais (Author)

An intricate, entertaining tale, both immediate and arrestingly absorbing. Elspeth MacLeod’s quest to save her clan from sinister enemies while fighting false charges of witchcraft propels the action in Marsolais and Twigg’s second installment in The Torrport Diaries series. It…
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The Magicians of Ysavar by Z.B. Lee

An entirely fresh and addicting tale… A young man learns what it means to be a true hero in Lee’s debut coming-of-age fantasy. Johan Finley has always dreamt of being a warrior, but when his arrogance and impulsive nature cost…
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Snakeheads: A Chelmin and Spaulding CID Mystery by Marvin Wolf

A taut military investigation parable… Wolf’s latest installment in the A Chelmin and Spaulding CID Mystery is a taut and action-packed page-turner that offers plenty of military tension and political intrigue. Military tensions with North Korea are on the rise.…
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Inhabitant by Charles Crittenden

An absorbing piece of verse fiction about determination, courage, resistance, and hope… Told in verse, Crittenden’s debut space opera explores the many transitions of life: from rootless to new homes, from failure to success, from hope to despair and back…
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Love, Lust & WTF!?! by Nikki Sitch

Sexy, often funny, and wholly enthralling… Sitch crafts a witty, entertaining tale infused with sharp dialogue, hilarious mishappenings, and relatable, fully developed characters. Trying to move on from the trauma of her husband’s untimely death, 45-year-old Daisy knows she must…
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The Silk Road (Lucy & Dee) by Kirsten Marion

A rip-roaring fantasy… Not to be missed. Marion’s fantastical middle grade fantasy is a deft mix of science, magic and intrigue, sending two best friends on a magical quest. Lucy and Dee are as opposite as they can be: Lucy…
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Dark Blue Waves by Kimberly Sullivan

A transporting drama of love, desire, and hope… High adventure fraught with unexpected twists marks Sullivan’s engrossing time-travel tale, which takes her heroine two-hundred years back to Regency England. Janet Roberts’s dream of an academic career in literature seems to…
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Omitted Pieces by Stephanie Hansen

A fast, intense, action-packed YA read… Hansen concludes the Transformed Nexus duology with this entertaining, imaginative installment. It is 2164. Sierra is in a new body and on a new planet with a new problem. Cromwell, the mad scientist, has…
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Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets by William G. Hyland Jr.

An immersive, original account that is both illuminating and thematically rich… In this meticulously researched and precisely detailed account of the political legend Thomas Jefferson, Hyland Jr. sketches a deeply intimate account of the extraordinary man known to his immediate…
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Legends on the Rise Series by Leigh Rose

Riveting… Page-turning… Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The first book begins…
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When Starlings Fly as One by Nancy Blanton

A solid historical drama high on emotion, setting, and character… The nightmare of the 1641 Rebellion and Ireland’s longest siege comes to the page in this engrossing novel from Blanton, a provocative exploration of one young woman’s quest to find…
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Pull by Jaime Winn

Immersive and heartrending… Winn’s debut, the first novel in a YA series set in the same universe as AC Rob’s forthcoming Rock series, is high on emotion, mystery, and intrigue. Seventeen-year-old Mischa Kenning-Elliot, is content being ‘invisible’ in her high…
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Waldwick: Let Go by Kenneth Linde

Tightly woven and immediate… Linde’s sixth installment in the Waldwick series is a moving exploration of belongingness, loneliness, trust, betrayal, and the power of love and companionship. Melia Terrill seems to have it all: abundant wealth, power, and fame. But…