April 12, 2026
The whispers matter in Holler Whispers
There is something old and familiar about a stranger arriving in a town full of stories, loyalties, and half-hidden fears.
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November 29, 2024
101 Super Cute Cat Things to Draw
Draw, doodle, and color a plethora of purrfectly pawsome felines and quirky cat mash-ups This books contains some of the happy things in life: cats and ways of drawing cats as different animals or obj...
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November 28, 2024
The Kitchen Commune: Meals to Heal and Nourish Everyone at Your Table
This book lets you nourish your body's health while deliciously feeding those you love, even with different dietary needs. Main dishes are a high-quality animal protein, prepared simply, and dressed u...
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November 27, 2024
Keys to Bitcoin: Understanding the technology of digital money
“The best explanation of Bitcoin I’ve read yet! From mining to farming to applying it to everyday transactions, Bitcoin is the amazing digital currency of today. Easy to understand with in-depth “how-...
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November 26, 2024
Collaborative Confidence
As someone who loves a great self-help business book and who has read quite a lot of them over the years, I was excited to receive a copy of Collaborative Confidence by Dr. Heather Backstrom. Collabor...
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November 25, 2024
Immersion: A Linguist's Memoir
Linda Murphy Marshall's Immersion presents a riveting story about a linguist and her perilous and exciting career assignments in various countries. Despite growing up in a family that frowned upon a w...
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November 22, 2024
Amazing Temples of the World
The outstanding attribute of Amazing Temples of the World concerns how discrimination, as recognized in our daily life, is peaceably absent from Michael Kerrigan’s outstanding book, where art and wors...
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November 21, 2024
Kira and the (Maybe) Space Princess: (A Graphic Novel) (Magic Girls)
Kira is destined for something great, and seventh grade is supposed to be her best year. She wants people to notice her and pay attention to her. At least, that is what Kira is hoping for. But Tulip, ...
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Ava's Dream
“A fun, easy-to-understand story that explains to children how America's judicial system works. Ava's Dream is the perfect read for teaching our children about Civics. It should be found in all elemen...
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November 19, 2024
Ice Cream Boy
Luca lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with his mother and grandmother, Nonna. His father left for Italy to run a bed and breakfast. He writes infrequently but isn’t there for Luca. Luca doesn’t really like...
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November 18, 2024
The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition
So The Hunger Games is a creepy futuristic book about what could happen if the world were to completely change under different leaders. It seems that every year the tributes of each district are selec...
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November 15, 2024
Homegrown Cannabis: A Beginner's Guide to Cultivating Organic Cannabis (Volume 3)
While, as the title indicates, this detailed work focuses on the growing of Cannabis, it is far more; a primer for beginning and even experienced gardeners. Delving into organic cultivation, permacult...
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Brownstone
It’s always been just Almudena and her mother. But this summer, Almudena is being shipped off to stay with her father, Xavier, whom she’s never met before. She knows nothing about her father, and she ...
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The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Teller of Small Fortunes is a heartwarming debut fantasy novel from Julie Leong that is sure to satisfy fans of cozy fantasy from authors like Rebecca Thorne and Ann Aguirre. The story follows Tao...
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November 12, 2024
The Golf Pro Has Heart
In his book, Gehrisch tries to do two things at once. Half of the chapters are dedicated to the “heart” mentioned in the title, as he offers the readers advice which will lead to a long-term, fulfilli...
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November 11, 2024
Red River Road: A Novel
In Red River Road, we meet Katy Sweeney, who is looking for her sister Phoebe. Phoebe has been missing for a year, three weeks into her solo van life trip along the coast of Western Australia.
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November 8, 2024
The Ghost Cat: A cozy historical fiction novel with a touch of magical realism
The Ghost Cat is a charming novel perfect for readers looking for something cozy and steeped in magical realism. Told entirely from the point of view of Grimalkin, a tomcat born in Victorian era Scotl...
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November 7, 2024
The Night Guest
There is something wrong with Idunn. At least, that’s what she’s convinced herself as she sits in yet another doctor’s office waiting room. She hasn’t been sleeping well, at first just waking up more ...
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November 6, 2024
Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
This fabulous imagining of the lives of erotic novelists/literary celebrities Jacquelin Susann and Jackie Collins is an absolute hill of fun. Gill Paul has captured the drug and party-filled world of ...
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November 5, 2024
Doña Isidora
Ishi, a young girl who lives in a small village in Peru, grows up wanting for nothing. Her life takes a turn for the worse when she falls in love with Don Amador, a notorious philanderer.
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November 4, 2024
How Carrot and Cookie Saved Christmas
Did you ever think that a carrot and cookie would save Christmas? Carrot and Cookie hear Santa coughing on the roof, and they come to the rescue to help Santa and his reindeer.
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October 29, 2024
An Adventurous Spirit
I know every serious reader is awash with excitement when they accidentally discover a treasure trove of excellent writing. Travel writing is a broad category and this collection makes the most of it ...
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October 29, 2024
My Year of Casual Acquaintances (The South Bay)
My Year of Casual Acquaintances offers contemporary romance lovers a fresh take on the fresh start trope, and delivers a thoroughly entertaining, highly re-readable novel. Middle-aged editor Mar Meyer...
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October 25, 2024
Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets)
This slim volume is most definitely an epic. Ambitious in scale and profound in depth, Schiff guides the reader on a dream-like tour through both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the hidden enclaves...
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October 24, 2024
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Aimee Nezhukumatathil's latest book Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees is a personal and poetic exploration of food and joy and the intersections we all have with our own history and the meals w...
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Third Wheel by Richard R. Becker
Book Summary: Brady Wilks wished for a new life with a real family in the pre-boomtown years of Las Vegas, 1982. Instead, he finds himself in a precarious situation, struggling to belong and find his ...
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November 10, 2023
Ghost With Two Hearts
“Armed with a stolen samurai sword and a dark family history, Adrian Green embarks on a soul-searching journey of redemption to Japan in Michael R. French’s Ghost With Two Hearts. Confronting the intr...
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October 27, 2023
The Lower Power
It’s February of 1992 in New York City, and Raven has been clean for five years. She works as an advocate for those recently arrested on drug charges to be sent to rehab instead of jail while she work...
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October 13, 2023
Lightning Bugs And Aliens: A Small Town Coming-Of-Age Story
It's a chaotic time for the US in 1960. Ben and four of his buddies are just 13 years old and are not old enough to participate in adult conversations. However, Russian missiles appear to be a threat,...
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September 29, 2023
This Thing We Call Love
The title of John Szabo’s short story collection This Thing We Call Love, suggests musings on romance but begins with a story of grief. And not just any story of loss — a story that toes the line of r...
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September 15, 2023
Kissing Asphalt
Kissing Asphalt by Delicia Niami is unlike any memoir I have ever read. Capturing her life, Niami recounts the horrific tragedies of her youth, all of which have made her into the resilient, inspiring...
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September 1, 2023
Where The Sabia Bird Sings
“A gorgeous story chronicling one young man’s life from teen-hood to adulthood as he splits time between the beautiful beaches of Brazil and the cityscape in Annapolis, Where the Sabía Bird Sings is b...
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August 18, 2023
Shelter in a Hostile World
Full of action, danger, and suspense, Mack Little’s Shelter in a Hostile World is a richly detailed and evocative work of historical fiction that shines an unflinching light on dark episodes from the ...
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August 4, 2023
Death is Potential: A Kate Swift Mystery
Action-packed, fast-paced, and excitement-filled, Death is Potential by Bob Burnett was a delight to read. Set at the Satori Institute, a retreat and workshop center in California, the reader is intro...
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July 21, 2023
Fated to Love You
Fated to Love You tells the story of two star-crossed lovers who meet in high school and find each other while studying abroad in Colombia. Nineteen-year-old Cassie is serious about her studies and af...
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July 7, 2023
Death of a Lady
Jaco Jacinto commands the frigate Scorpion, assigned to Continental Navy. In August of 1780, Jaco is ready to get his ship back after a month of repairs, and he can’t wait to get back to hunting. The ...
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June 23, 2023
Open for Interpretation: A Doctor's Journey into Astrology
Healing wisdom and traditions expand outside the confines of scientific knowledge. With her training in Western medicine, Alicia Blando, M.D., shares her journey in exploring the divination arts to fi...
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June 9, 2023
A Crown of Ivy and Glass (The Middlemist Trilogy, 1)
Lady Gemma begins much like Emma Woodhouse or Paris Hilton, the spoiled rich girl who has it all. She is allergic to the magic that is nearly ever-present in her world, making her sickly and frail. Wh...
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May 26, 2023
Unlock Happiness By Mastering The Self
“Author Shobeir Shobeyri dives deep into human nature and how life’s many rules shape our existence. Whether innate or environmental, all humans have the ability to be good, evil, happy, or self-destr...
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May 12, 2023
The Unbroken Horizon
“A dual timeline narrative, Jenny Brav’s The Unbroken Horizon is a searing work of historical fiction that chronicles the trials and tribulations of two seemingly disparate female characters. Through ...
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April 28, 2023
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers In the 21st Century and Other Follies (Freak Brothers Follies)
Way back when, somewhere in San Francisco, Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek, Phineas T. Phreak, Fat Freddy Freekowtski, and of course, Fat Freddy’s Cat spontaneously spewed from the brain of Gilbert Shelto...
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April 14, 2023
Tropical Scandal
Tropical Scandal is the fifth book in the Pancho McMartin legal thriller series by David Myles Robinson. In this installment, Pancho is introduced to legendary Hawaii trial attorney Isaac Goldblum by ...
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March 31, 2023
Delicious Monsters
Daisy can see ghosts. Most of the time, she can ignore them and go on with her life. When her boyfriend suddenly dumps her, and her mother inherits a mansion, Daisy makes the choice to leave everythin...
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March 17, 2023
The Scarlet Circus
Despite the name, no circus appears in this book. Instead, myth, magic, and romance all come together in this collection of short fantasy stories all by the same author, several of which are published...
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March 3, 2023
Blue Box, Vol. 2
Taiki Inomata has always loved badminton, and he really wants to go to the nationals. Then there’s Chinatsu Kano, a basketball player who shares the same dream as him. When a turn of events brings the...
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February 20, 2023
Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories by K
About the Book: Is love the most revolutionary of all acts? In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories swe...
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February 6, 2023
Choosing Life: One man’s journey through alcoholism and depression to wellness and self-discovery by Blue Andrews
About the Book: Addiction and avoidance. Inadequacy and isolation. Even though Blue Andrews went from food stamps to a million dollars, and had an amazing family and many supportive friends, his unhea...
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December 15, 2022
The Greek Gambit by Charles Salter
About the Book: Along the North Carolina coast, random people are aging decades in days and dying within a week. Suspecting some weird new form of radiation, the Pentagon sends its top secret Nuke Res...
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December 14, 2022
Jus Breath by B. Lynn Carter
About the Book: It started the day she heard Daddy slur, “She ain't mine. You had the nerve to name her Dawn. Look at her! You shudda named her Midnight!” Then Daddy left . . . for good. And the lovin...
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December 11, 2022
Woody's Leap of Faith by Julie Boden Schmidt
About the Book: From beginning to end, readers of all ages will fall in love with Woody, a little wood duckling, and his siblings, Buzz and Zoey. The day after hatching, the ducklings must jump from t...
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December 9, 2022
Mia, The Crooked Road by D.A. Jennings
About the Book: Adventure comes when you least expect it. Sometimes, when that happens life turns upside down. In this sequel to Mia, Ripples in the Water, Mia finds herself wandering down a path she ...
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December 7, 2022
The Art of Lifelong Customers by Mihaela Akers
About the Book: We’ve been conditioned to treat strangers better than customers and to endlessly chase what we don’t have. But the key to a highly profitable and fulfilling business is acknowledging a...
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May 3, 2021
The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise
Story Summary: She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla's mother died. Now everyone else is paying t...
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December 4, 2020
Ballet Orphans by Terez Mertes Rose
Book Summary: It's 1990, and New York soloist April Manning is trying to rebalance her world in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. An offer to join the struggling West Coast Ballet Theatre as a pri...
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November 10, 2020
The Twelve Realms by A.D. Sloane
Book Summary: There are messages told through language. There are messages told through symbols. And there are messages told through terror. Nabii Akachi, a young Moorish royal, unveils a series of cr...
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June 20, 2020
Shadows by William Stephen Edwards
Book Summary: Poet William Stephen Edwards is a professor and a pathologist, a hippy and a Vietnam veteran, a lover, a cowboy, an explorer…a chronicler of life from his side of it. The poems in Shadow...
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December 11, 2019
When We Were Brave by Karla M Jay
Book Summary: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish ...
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October 18, 2019
I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion
Book Summary: A book of 366 mantras or affirmations to raise and encourage the self-esteem and self-belief of children (plus adults), told through the eyes of young siblings Hao Finley Lee and Sabine ...
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September 3, 2019
Possessed: From Darkness to Light by Cordelia Lee
Book Summary: Cordelia Lee has experienced something few in the Western world have even witnessed: exorcism. Demonic possession brought her to a Taoist shaman who could drive out her tormentors, but o...
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August 8, 2019
Mighty Mary by Max Davine
Story Summary: Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went. In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, ...
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Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War by Patrick Hogan
Book Summary: What would you say if I told you there are disturbing things the US Government hasn’t told you about the Vietnam War and doesn’t want you to know? Things such as all the rainbow-colored ...
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July 2, 2019
Lesath by A. M. Kherbash
Book Summary: Amateur journalist Greg travels to a remote mountain area to investigate rumors of a sinister building only to find himself imprisoned there. As he tries to escape, he evinces symptoms o...
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June 2, 2019
Journey To Healing—The Art and Science of Applied Kinesiology by Dr. Eugene Charles
Book Summary: True health is not simply the absence of disease. It is a state of being in which the miraculous physical and mental forces that make us human work together in proper balance. True healt...
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