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Exit Tickets: A Novel by Kenneth Chanko

Measured, intelligent, and quietly powerful. Chanko’s compelling novel is a thoughtful and grounded portrayal of teaching at its most demanding. When Mr. J arrives at P.S. 961, he is determined to reach students others have written off. His connection with…
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Will the Devil Help Me Now? By Caytlyn Brooke

Lean, vivid, and relentlessly absorbing… Set in 17th-century Scotland, Brooke’s stark, unsparing story traces how fear, grief, and institutional authority can transform care into a punishable offense. In Fife, 1649, sisters Isla and Elspeth Blackwood serve their community as herbal…
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Love and Laughter in Ransom Canyon by Mary Lou Cheatham (Author), Christie Marie Underwood (Author)

Witty, heartfelt, and impossible to put down. In their latest, Cheatham and Underwood turn a simple mistake into the gentle beginning of a second chance at love. Olivia Finley isn’t looking for love—she’s raising two girls and surviving loss. But…
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When I Kill You by B.A. Paris

Gripping, unsettling, and atmospheric… Nell Masters feels watched. Strange calls, anonymous flowers, and a constant sense of unease follow her everywhere. She has reason to worry—Nell is hiding a past she’s never shared, even with her partner, Alex, who carries…
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Blood Rivalry by Paul Attaway

A high-stakes, compulsively readable political thriller. Attaway’s third installment in the Atkins Family Low Country Saga takes readers into a tightly coiled narrative where reputations harden into myth, power is exercised quietly, and old violence continues to dictate present-day lives.…
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Afterburn by Michael Bodhi Green

A sharp, precise, and quietly brutal SF tale… Green takes readers into a broken America where surveillance is constant, ideology is lethal, and escape lies off-planet. It is 2070, and the American dream has collapsed into detention zones, surveillance drones,…
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Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell

A raw, and unsparing memoir that explores survival, family betrayal, systemic failure, and the fierce will to keep living when the world offers no safety. “Please, God, take the pain away,” Caldwell writes at the opening of the book, moments…
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The Secret Buttons by Ellen M. Shapiro

Spare, intimate, and deeply moving. Set between Nazi-occupied Vienna and wartime rural England, Shapiro’s novel traces two sisters as they are pushed from sheltered family life into early, uncompromising independence. When Anni and Rosie leave Vienna, they carry more than…
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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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Willow Rose by M. Kevin Hayden

Eerie, emotional, and impossible to put down. A weary physician is pulled into a storm of cosmic terror and supernatural mystery in Hayden’s deeply unsettling supernatural thriller. Exhausted and hollowed out by the weight of his past, Dr. Alder Peony…
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Muunokhoi’s Awakening by Gilbert Arthur

A meditative tale of instinct, choice, and awakening… Arthur’s brilliant novel opens underground, in the stillness of a marmot colony buried deep beneath the snow. There, Muunokhoi, a large, intelligent tarbagan marmot, awakens too early from hibernation. With the world…
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Let Me Go: A Gripping Second-Chance Contemporary Romance by Tricia T. LaRochelle

A brilliant blend of heartfelt emotion and sensual heat. A jaded stockbroker finds connection in a woman the world has written off in LaRochelle’s second-chance romance. Jacob “JC” Sullivan has everything: money, power, women, but no real peace. When his…
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Thrive in Chaos by Jace Parker

A raw, no-fluff guide to building real-world resilience when life hits hard. Parker, a seasoned crime scene investigator, lays out a no-nonsense framework for resilience in this autobiographical self-help guide grounded in trauma, crisis, and firsthand experience. The book’s four-part…
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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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The Best Worst Christmas Ever by Thomas J. Thorson

Deeply human and quietly magical; a triumph… Thorson turns a blizzard, a blackout, and a botched vacation into a warm, imaginative reawakening of what family and Christmas really mean in his compelling YA fantasy. The Natale family’s long-awaited tropical escape…
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The Wanderer’s Notebook Volume III by Christopher Emrys

Deeply rewarding and emotionally resonant… Emrys continues his thoughtful, low-key epic series with a collection of stories that favors intimacy over spectacle. In “Discovery,” a wood elf scout named Ymladdwr unearths a mind-reactive portal in the wilderness. Alongside Gwyddoniaeth, a…
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Journey to the Dark Galaxy (The Dark Galaxy Series Book 2) by Hannah D. State

A vivid, thought-provoking SF story with heart and high stakes… A telepathic teen faces interplanetary threats and internal reckoning in State’s emotionally charged sequel to The Dark Galaxy Series. Fourteen-year-old Sam Sanderson is drafted by GAIA, an interplanetary alliance, after…
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Chasing Czars: Book 3 of The Cleopatra Chronicles by Tina Sloan

A high-stakes romantic thriller wrapped in luxury, loss, and deadly secrets… A glamorous, unabashedly sentimental spy novel set in the glittering ski resorts of St. Moritz, Sloan’s third installment of The Chasing Cleopatra Chronicles offers danger, desire, and a heroine…
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Fighting Gravity by Michael Godin

Raw, unfiltered, and tragically hilarious… Godin’s latest novel is a darkly funny, emotionally honest portrait of a man on the verge as he tries to find solid ground again. New Orleans plastic surgeon Nick Jordan seems to have it all—success,…
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The Manse of Chasconny by Gabbiano Gatto

Dark, cerebral, and unforgiving… Gatto’s latest novel is a haunting, richly imagined political gothic tale set in a Europe on the verge of collapse. Salbador, a repressed caretaker in an isolated coastal manse, grows increasingly unstable under the cruel authority…