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To See God (A Forgiveness and Faith Novel Book 3) by Bruce Berger

An elegant, provocative, and reflective tale about family and faith… Rich in profound insights and emotional resonance, Berger’s final installment in the Forgiveness and Faith trilogy follows Theodora and Nicky, as they struggle with issues of faith and intricacies of…
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The Ice Widow: A Story of Love and Redemption by Anne M Smith-Nochasak

A nuanced and wholly moving literary tale… Set mainly in Labrador, Canada, this engrossing tale from Smith-Nochasak focuses on one damaged woman’s search for love and fulfillment. It was during her first teaching year away from her home, in Endor,…
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The Dyer Island Boys by Jeffrey Veatch

A wholesome, hopeful, and heartwarming journey through troubled adolescent life and the importance of hard work and resilience… A triumph. Based on a true story, Veatch’s remarkable novel confronts head on the complicated realities of adolescent life. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Miller…
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Domestic Arts (Sisters of Stella Mare) by Annie M. Ballard

A layered and nuanced literary tale… An expected betrayal forces a struggling artist to confront the opportunistic relationship that defines her romantic past in Ballard’s poignant latest installment in the Sisters of Stella Mare. Evie is back in Stella Mare…
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Send Down the Master in Person: Reflections on Adolf Eichmann by A. Keith Carreiro

Emotionally arresting and poignant… In this beautifully composed narrative poem, Carreiro delves into the horrors unleashed by Nazi Germany, particularly Adolf Eichmann, a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, while paying homage to those who…
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Create Destruction: A Novel in Verse by Ryan A. Kovacs

Beautifully told, chilling, poignant, and hauntingly dark. Young Thomas has always known he is special: he has parapsychic powers. When the sinister Doctor Larson, a maniacal scientist, asks for Thomas’s help in changing humanity’s fate, Thomas immediately says yes. Using…
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The Man Who Screams at Nightfall: and other stories by Rush Leaming

Sharply observed, nuanced, precise, and morally challenging… Sharply observed, nuanced, precise, and morally challenging… Set in Thailand, the Congo, Greece, Spain, and America, Leaming’s latest book examines love, memories, loneliness, loss, regret, and redemption. In the title story, “The Man…
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Out of Wedlock by Larry Lockridge

A quirky and yet sensitive, absorbing novel… A physician’s search for his birth parents unravels to disastrous effect in Lockridge’s latest novel set in Greenwich Village and Santa Fe from 1989 to 2008. Jess Freeman, a renowned facial plastic surgeon…
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The Quarryman’s Girl: A Novel by Melanie Forde

A captivating piece of historical fiction… Forde merges human drama and historical intrigue in her compelling latest novel. Rose Dowd is getting on in year. Her youngest son Vince helps her with her daily chores. But when her memory begins…
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The Queering by Brooke Skipstone

Deeply evocative and consistently moving… Skipstone returns with this breathtaking story about one woman’s journey to fulfillment and happiness. Suffocating in a loveless marriage, seventy-year-old Taylor MacKenzie is living through her writing, using the pen name Brooke Skipstone, her best…