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Fiction
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Labor Pains
By C.A. Huggins
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LABOR PAINS by C.A. Huggins appears to be aiming for an “Office Space”-like effect, but is ultimately goes on far too long without developing a compelling or particularly witty conceit.
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Beyond the Clearing
By Robin Mahle
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To mourn their dead friend Diane, a group of three women go to pamper themselves at the incredibly swank and new-agey Serenity Resort. But Serenity Resort is a pretty suspicious place, and not just because of the 6 a.m. wake-up calls and the fact that they don’t serve alcohol.
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Field of Vision
By Michael Jarvis
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FIELD OF VISION is the lyrical, simmering story of a jaded photographer occasionally named Jake who, at age 27, is unafraid to take pictures of a man who threatens to kill him.
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Love Beyond Time
By Bethany Claire
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How do Scotland and, to a much lesser extent, Austin, Texas, become the geographies of loss and love and meet over the course of four centuries? Through the mind of an architect-mother, the skills of a spell-casting 17th century relative, and the drama of a regal land-owning “laird-dom.”
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Reason’s Fifth Dawning
By Alan Jeskin
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REASON’S FIFTH DAWNING is a fictional tale of fighter pilot-turned MBA Eric Noble who writes a wildly popular book debunking the tenets of religious faith.
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Dead Soul Mary
By M.J. Winn
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A deadly virus is making the rounds, spread by a psychopath loosed on the world by a legal technicality, a virus that affects everyone it comes in contact with, bringing violence and horror to an unspeakable level.
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Orbit Beach
By Jane Etarie
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An unreliable and unlikable narrator’s account of her attempts to get pregnant, her lousy job, her boyfriend, and a great many other subjects. The unnamed narrator of Jane Etarie’s ORBIT BEACH thinks her car has been stolen. (Actually, she just lost it during a drunken bender.) And then, if that’s not bad enough, her boyfriend […]
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Tiger’s Promise
By Colleen Houck
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In a far away land, a young girl named Yesubai is raised under the control of her father. He is a man great magical abilities, a violent temper and an insatiable hunger for power that make him a dangerous man. But unbeknownst to him, Yesubai, has powers of her own.
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Raising John
By Jennifer Lesher
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Beginning from the playful, foreshortened point of view of a toddler named John, RAISING JOHN quickly segues into tragedy, albeit one that treads lightly on purposeful tear-jerking.
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The Undelightened
By Bentz Deyo
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The year leading up to Leam’s eighteenth birthday has been disastrous. He failed to Delighten on his seventeenth birthday, which means he also failed to take his place amongst the magical Dark that is his birthright.
