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20-Year Letter: An Afghanistan Chronicle by Benjamin R Warner

Intense, authentic, and engrossing… Warner offers a firsthand glimpse at the camaraderie, peril, and gratifications of service in his engrossing memoir. A few short months removed from the events of 9/11, the young reserve officer, LT Warner, jumped on the…
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The Other Side of the Ocean by Beverley Bell

Raw and haunting… A poignant tale. Bell examines horrors of war and a person’s struggles with identity in a foreign land in her engrossing debut. The young Saah Kamandu is content living a sheltered life in Freetown, Sierra Leone with…
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The Iron Labyrinth by Merrilee Beckman

A powerhouse of a SF tale… Intricately plotted, imaginatively written, and brilliantly executed, Beckman’s debut delves into the complexities of self-discovery and power play as her protagonist finds himself kidnapped and taken to the deep recesses of earth into an…
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Dead In The Water: A Provincetown Mystery by Jeannette de Beauvoir

A compulsive page-turner… Beauvoir returns with another compelling mystery with memorable, deeply realized characters and genuine surprises, featuring the amateur sleuth Sydney Riley. Sydney is at her wits end with her parents settled at the Race Point Inn, expecting her…
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Ballad of the Dead: A Modern Fairy Tale by D.N. Moore

An exhilaratingly chilling ride… Moore delivers a brilliant tale of dark horror about a young girl whose life turns upside down after she meets an enigmatic stranger. 18-year-old Rory is looking forward to college and a musical career after graduation…
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The Export by JK Kelly

A true page-turner… Kelly delivers a fast-moving plot, topnotch characterization, and a mind-bending mystery in his series kicker in The Export series, featuring the former FBI Special Agent Matt Christopher. Tired of dirty politics and corrupt politicians, Matt’s job as…
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The Export’s Revenge by J.K. Kelly

Relentlessly entertaining… A grabber Replete with high action, drama, intrigue, and murder, Kelly’s second installment in The Export series sees Matt Christopher confront the ultimate betrayal. Trying to deal with a close friend’s treachery, Matt is in Thailand when he…
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The Amazing True Stories of Pepito The Squirrel (Pepito the Squirrel #1) by F. Jordan Erebia

Charming, compelling, and brimming with heart… A beautifully written, morally bracing tale. Based on the true rescue story, this poignant first installment of the Pepito the Squirrel series by the retired physician Erebia takes readers on Pepito’s journey of rescue…
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More Amazing True Stories of Pepito The Squirrel (Pepito the Squirrel #2) by F. Jordan Erebia

Delightfully heartfelt and adventurous… In this charming second installment of Pepito the Squirrel (based on a true rescue story), Erebia takes readers on the young squirrel’s mischievous exploits. Pepito is fully rehabilitated now and living on its own. But he…
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RangerKnights (The Book of Ruin 3) by W.G. Hladky

Perfectly paced, expertly crafted, and explosively action-packed … Irresistible. Set into a post-apocalyptic world, Hladky’s entertaining, compelling third installment to The Book of Ruin series (after The Flashfall Sword) see the gutsy RangerKnights return to a Jihadi-oppressed downtrodden town, to…
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The Salsa King of Scarsdale by Ben Fine

A well-crafted, poignant examination of love, relationships, and self-discovery… Fine delves into the complexities of midlife crisis and identity in this engrossing tale. The middle aged, married father of two, Ira Brodsky is content running his highly successful OB practice…
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Beyond the Food Court: an Anthology of Literary Cuisines by Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, editor

Vivid and affecting… A gem of a book. Erregue-Sacchi brings together a series of finely crafted creative nonfiction essays from writers from Alberta with roots in several countries around the globe. Intensely lyrical and startlingly imaginative, Adriana Oniță’s opening piece…
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Welcome Home Little Poltergeist by Vincent Hollow

Evocative and beautifully haunting… Hollow uses speculative poetry to transcend a heartbroken lover’s grief in his haunting debut, a collection of short poems. Set against a haunted house backdrop, the collection comprises a sequence of poems, containing fragments from the…
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When Times Seem Dark by Alex Thomas

Rich and poignant… An affecting journey through life’s experiences… Simultaneously sad and hopeful, this collection of 100 short poems by Thomas describes with candor and passion the everyday struggles people go through all the time, particularly the mental health problems.…
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Book blurb: Lendercide by Allen Madding

Whose turn will it be next? In her work as a loan processor at Sunshine City Bank in Saint Petersburg, Colleen Smithwick has always found it hard to cope with the increasing pressures of work–suffering myopic and tyrannical loan officers…
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Everybody Don Kolomental by Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

A poignant collection that captures both the raw sorrows and joys of human existence… Akinyemi weaves his exuberant latest collection of poems around the themes of depression and mental health problems. With candor and verve, he captures the pain of…
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The Stagsblood Prince (Book One of the Stagsblood Trilogy) by Gideon E. Wood

Un-put-downable… Wood introduces a troubled hero torn between duty and self in this impressive gay fantasy, the first in the Stagsblood Trilogy. Tel, the ruggedly handsome crown prince of Feigh, has negotiated an end to the war between his country…
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The Cardiff Giant (The Enigma Quartet) by Larry Lockridge

Original, satisfying… A stunning feat. Lockridge’s rollicking latest dissects the aboriginal community in the Cooperstown, New York, as an investigative journalist arrives in town to look into the disappearance of a gigantic human figure. Jack Thrasher, the investigative reporter for…
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Joyous Lies by Margaret Ann Spence

Riveting, gripping, and psychologically nuanced… Replete with drama and taut with suspense, this splendid, beautifully written tale by Spence explores relationships, family ties, and the sudden, destructive power, the long-buried secrets and lies hold on enduring bonds and evolving relationships.…
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Black Chaos by James Pack

Candid and lingering… A compelling collection. Passionate and profound, Pack’s soulful collection of thirty poems takes the reader on a ride into the wild abandonment and chaos of a depressed mind as it embarks on a journey of self-love and…