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Point First by Nannette Potter

Taut, twisty, and thoroughly absorbing. Potter’s gripping thriller brings a professional knife-thrower into a complex story of family secrets, political ambition, and corruption. Genevieve “Blade” Broussard arrives in Charleston searching for the truth about her newly discovered, powerful paternal family,…
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A Pigeon in the Pen (Marshall Morris Is at It Again) by Robert John DeLuca

A high-stakes romp with heart, humor, and nerve. DeLuca’s gripping, fast-paced novel takes a reckless but bighearted teenager deep into a dangerous world of drugs, deception, and difficult choices. Marshall Morris has a habit of rushing toward trouble before common…
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All Writers Are Liars by Nicholas Bruechle

Darkly funny, philosophically rich, and emotionally astute. Bruechle delivers an ambitious work of literary metafiction that blurs the boundary between author and invention with wit, intelligence, and surprising emotional depth. Struggling novelist Baker McCloud pours himself into a manuscript populated…
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The World As It Is by Donald Levin

An unflinching, immersive, and incendiary portrait of injustice… Levin crafts a layered portrait of a city and a nation confronting the realities of injustice and change in his latest novel. 1963 Detroit. When an aspiring Motown musician witnesses a white…
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Jack & Willl: The Scandalous Memoirs of General John Torrance #4 by D.E. Ring

A sweeping colonial thriller with surprising depth. Imperial rivalries, African intrigue, and a rescue mission gone awry: another assignment for Canadian intelligence officer Jack Torrance in Ring’s expansive historical adventure. The novel opens in the aftermath of the Sudan campaign…
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The Quest for Freedom (Book One of The Conquest Trilogy) by Matthew Devitt

Relentless, ambitious, and exhilarating… A slave blacksmith launches a rebellion that may save humanity, or transform it forever in Devitt’s compelling book. For 473 years, humanity has endured slavery after losing a catastrophic war to Affer’s five other races. Most…
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Pickleball Saved My Life by Colette Struthers

Wise, approachable, and deeply inspiring. Struthers debuts with an engaging blend of memoir, concussion advocacy, and pickleball evangelism. After decades of soccer-related head injuries, she found herself trapped in what she calls a world of “fog, fatigue, and frustration,” struggling…
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Fire Breathes Stone and Storm (The Shell Born Series #1 ) by Teresa Hakaraia

Richly imagined, emotionally charged, and compelling. Combining expansive worldbuilding with intimate character arcs, Hakaraia’s fantasy debut in the Shell Born series follows four unlikely heroes as they navigate destiny, prejudice, and the pull of first love. Sekya has spent her…
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The TellTale Lie by Richard Kiehr

A smart, sophisticated mystery with genuine heart… Kiehr transforms a deeply personal search for identity into an expansive historical mystery spanning continents and generations. A midlife discovery sends Treyton Chase on a search for the truth about his origins, but…
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The World As It Is by Donald Levin

An unflinching, immersive, and incendiary portrait of injustice… Levin crafts a layered portrait of a city and a nation confronting the realities of injustice and change in his latest novel. 1963 Detroit. When an aspiring Motown musician witnesses a white…
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Lily Starling and the Death Machine by Christian Hurst

A dark, cerebral adventure of plague, power, and the dangerous illusion of control. A battle-hardened pilot becomes entangled in a conspiracy when the machine she uncovers doesn’t just preserve life but also begins to change those who survive it in…
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Waldwick… Reckoning by Kenneth Linde

A quiet, incisive, deeply felt novel… In his latest installment in the Waldwick series, Linde follows Amy Terrill beyond the boundaries of the life she built, into a quieter, more interior reckoning. A mother, survivor, and woman whose past resists…
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The Last Ghost: An Unexpected Occurrence by D.E. Ring

An elegant, haunting novel of quiet suspense, rich character work, and lingering philosophical depth. In Ring’s latest character-driven novel, everyday experience becomes a thoughtful exploration of loss, ambition, and the boundaries of reason. Joshua Stewart’s life seems to be perfect:…
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Dark Elf’s Snare by Armanis Ar-feinial

An emotionally charged, morally complex fantasy that blends passion with pathos and seduction with sorrow. In Ar-feinial’s brooding dark fantasy, an elven bodyguard’s mission spirals into a battle with grief, desire, and supernatural forces. Haunted by the disappearance of his…
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Red Dirt Part II: The Sister of Northwind by D.K. Kristof

Impossible to put down… Kristof expands the mythos of his post-human universe with stark emotional depth and rich character development in this second installment in the Red Dirt series.  In the frozen dark of Mars’s southern pole, Miri and the…
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Another Side of Sunshine by Kay DiBianca

Clever, wholesome, and fun… DiBianca’s latest novel is a cleverly structured middle-grade mystery that brings together classic adventure tropes with the emotional honesty of a coming-of-age summer tale. Spunky ten-year-old Reen Penterson ditches her summer novel-writing when a campus-wide treasure…
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Red Dirt Part I: The Star Bearer by D.K. Kristof

Gritty, unforgettable, and compulsively readable… Kristof’s debut is a vivid, emotionally resonant, and boldly cinematic plunge into a post-apocalyptic Martian world. In the ruined aftermath of humanity’s collapse, the Vestige, the synthetic beings forged in humanity’s image, have built new…
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ALPHA MALE (BLOOD RED MOON Book 2) by Mark Allen

Gripping, brutal, and yet surprisingly tender… Allen’s latest is a ferocious, fast-paced, and harrowing second act in the Caleb Jacobsen Saga. After saving humanity from the Global Alpha’s wrath, Caleb and Marla hoped for peace. But peace was never built…
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Wizards & Demons by Stephen Ball

Fast, funny, and bursting with satirical energy… Ball’s latest is a riotous, fast-talking fantasy romp that blends pulpy wizardry with modern-day absurdity. Told through a collection of short stories, the book follows Martin Lightsword, a self-deprecating Light Wizard living in…