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Animal Conquest: General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms by David Bush

Vivid, lush, and beautifully told… Bush’s fifth installment in the General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms series is an ambitious allegory that reimagines the Crusades through talking animals, blending history, morality, and adventure. In 1210, Jean, a…
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IN THE COMPANY OF WHALES by Judy Taylor

A quietly powerful tale that blends environmental urgency with intimate character study. In Taylor’s latest novel, a washed-up punk rocker living on the margins of a Pacific Northwest coastal town is forced out of survival mode when nineteen killer whales…
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QUEER JUSTICE: a novel by Alex Charns

Grim, intelligent, and quietly explosive. Set against the political tensions of 1960s Washington, Charns’s latest novel traces the cost of truth in a system engineered to suppress it. 1966, Washington. When George Smith, a jailed Black teenager, claims he holds…
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Escala’s Wish (Tales of Valla Book 1) by David James

Emotionally precise, darkly enchanting, and hard to put down. James opens the Tales from Valla series with a single, impulsive act that ripples outward into devastating consequences. Escala Winter only wanted to understand love. One forbidden kiss leaves a mortal…
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Cone and Skate by Amy Nicolai (Author), Christina Michalos (Illustrator)

A fun and spirited story of unexpected adventure and gentle self-discovery. Nicolai’s latest is a brisk, good-humored picture book that examines momentum, fear, and self-discovery through an unlikely pairing. Cone, a traffic cone content with routine, spends her days observing…
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Frayed Edges: Poems by Kahlani B. Steele

Reflective, image-driven, and poised… Steele’s latest book presents a disciplined collection of poems shaped by observation, restraint, and formal awareness. Some of the strongest pieces are those that ground feeling in physical detail. In one brief lyric from “The Taste…
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Some Love Lasts by Tim Hunniecutt

A subtle, deeply penetrating meditation on first love, memory, and the moments that shape who we become. Hunniecutt’s quietly powerful coming-of-age novel captures the fragile intensity of first love and the lasting imprint it leaves. Madi expects a quiet summer…
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Space Station by K.R. Gadeken

Meditative, unsettling, and emotionally precise. Gadeken’s reflective, allegorical novella uses the trappings of science fiction to explore life, choice, and the evolving nature of identity. At the heart of the novella is a space station built of interconnected spheres, each…
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The ICE Murders (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond, Book 10) by Geoffrey M Cooper

Lean, tense, and politically charged; a page-turner. In the tenth entry in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series, Cooper takes readers on a tense, morally urgent investigation where political power, institutional secrecy, and murder collide.  Dr. Abina Owusu, a…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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Mari-chan and Roboto Bunny by Jon Kaczka

Whimsical, tender, and inventive; a complete delight. Kaczka delivers a tender, imaginative children’s fantasy that blends emotional depth with playful surrealism. Six-year-old Mari-chan is heartbroken when her rock-climbing father goes missing in an Antarctic avalanche—until her magical stuffed bunny, Roboto…
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The First Shot (The Bourbon Chronicles #1) by Lance Lassen

A high-speed romp with an unexpected emotional core. Lassen launches The Bourbon Chronicles with a high-velocity opening that blends outlaw humanity, hard physics, and bourbon-fueled survival. When 23-year-old physics prodigy Bill Griffin perfects the first wormhole drive, he expects history,…
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The Image Maker by Chris Flanders

Brisk, absorbing, and grounded in real lives, an industrial epic with a human heartbeat. Flanders’s ambitious and richly textured historical novel brings the birth of the American oil industry vividly to life through three intersecting lives. In the aftermath of…
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Moonshine Cabin by Ron Fritsch

A restrained, humane portrait of first love shaped by secrecy, faith, and quiet resistance. Fritsch explores first love in a 1950s rural village where desire must move quietly to survive under a minister’s suspicious gaze. When high school classmates Ethan…
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Ruins (Earth Crash Series Book 2) by B T Kvin

A vivid, tense, and morally unflinching survival novel. Kvin’s second installment in the Earth Crash Series is a tense, morally unflinching continuation, deepening its focus on survival not as spectacle, but as consequence. After the asteroid strike, reaching the coast…
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Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality by Robert K Bosscha

Clear, restrained, and quietly courageous. Bosscha offers a rare and unsettling account of life inside a fractured mind in this powerful memoir. The author’s life before collapse is deliberately ordinary: an independent man renovating his condominium when seizures abruptly dismantle…
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THE MAGIC CIRCLE by C.F. Hayes

Uncompromising,  provocative, and thought-provoking. Hayes probes the intersections of faith, power, sexuality, and trauma with unflinching intensity in this challenging and intellectually ambitious novel. Through the posthumous reconstruction of a diary, the narrative examines the life of Mary Armstrong, the…
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No Quarter: Empires in the Wilderness by David M. Howell

A cinematic historical drama that binds private struggle to global consequence. Howell’s ambitious and deeply immersive historical novel captures the rupture and uncertainty of the mid-eighteenth century with striking clarity. Caleb Rafferty and Daireann Dwyer flee to the colonies seeking…
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Ithyanna, Last Daughter of Atlantis Book III: The Vietnam Incident by by Don Edward Cook

Vast, ideologically rich, and scientifically bold. Cook delivers an ambitious fusion of mythic history, Cold War thriller, and spacefaring adventure in his latest novel. Millennia after freeing enslaved humans, Ithyanna is thrown into the Vietnam DMZ in 1967 and captured…
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Beyond Superhero School: Let the Games Begin! by Gracie Dix

Brisk, suspense-driven, and character-focused. In the second installment of the Vork Chronicles, Dix thrusts her teenage superheroes into the public eye, where a live television game show turns their powers—and their deepest fears—into entertainment. After leaving Superhero School, Team HOPE…