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4.6 / 5.0
An unconventional, elegiac sports novel, SUGAR FREE is a profound and often heartbreaking meditation on passion, perseverance, and the sacrifices required to forge an unorthodox...
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4.5 / 5.0
D.R. Shores’s SHALLOW STOCK is stimulating and well-rounded literary fiction that examines the intricacies of the corporate world and the steep rivalry that often emerges...
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November 13, 2024
THE SPARK AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
By Timothy Karsten, Karinna Karsten, Houston HowardRating:
4.8 / 5.0
Rooted in the visionary concept of Karinna & Timothy Karsten, Houston Howard’s THE SPARK AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE pairs stunning visuals with timeless...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
TANGLES by Kay Smith-Blum is an emotionally resonant mystery combined with a compelling conspiracy story.
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
A promising beginning to an epic series, Patrick Todoroff's BROKEN MOON—SCORNED LANDS builds a shattered world seeded with hints of something both greater and more...
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4.6 / 5.0
Raw, revelatory, and suffused with hard-won wisdom, Tracy L. Markley's I'M NOT STUPID, I HAVE HEARING LOSS is a must-read memoir that challenges entrenched myths...
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November 11, 2024
OPTIMAL WORK: A Project Manager’s Guide to Elevating Team Performance through Deep Work, Passion, and Purpose
By Paul X. HarderRating:
4.7 / 5.0
Paul X. Harder's OPTIMAL WORK: A Project Manager's Guide to Elevating Team Performance through Deep Work, Passion, and Purpose is an expertly crafted, text-book caliber...
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3.5 / 5.0
Roy Chaney's SEVEN TIMES DEAD is a lively, energetic action/adventure novel with a dizzying array of twists, turns, and characters.
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0
Dennis Clay Smith's raucous, overstuffed debut novel SOUTHERN RIPLEY COUNTY offers a gumbo of small-town melodrama and twisty crime thriller sure to satisfy readers with...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
In HAPPYAGONY, Mem Ferda offers up an intimate self-portrait in verse, an unsparing exploration of life's joys and losses rendered in plainspoken yet expressive lines...
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4.0 / 5.0
Michael B. Duff’s TIMOTHY’S DEMON is a richly imagined, agile debut with a satisfying blend of magical worldbuilding and smartly conceived action.
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2.5 / 5.0
Thoroughly well-researched and carefully crafted, Larry Forcey’s FALL OF THE MIGHTY still doesn’t successfully braid its narrative threads into an emotionally compelling story.