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September 24, 2025
THE INNOVATION EDGE: How Large Companies Lose It and How to Get It Back
By Merle SymesRating:
3.8 / 5.0
THE INNOVATION EDGE: How Large Companies Lose It and How to Get It Back is not an easy read, but, for business leaders ready to...
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
M.E. Torrey's FOX CREEK: A Novel vividly humanizes the self-destructive cruelty of the Southern plantation system.
September 24, 2025
FROM GLOW TO GLUE: An Inspired Leadership Strategy That Sticks
By Jeffrey J. JaimeRating:
3.5 / 5.0
Jeffrey J. Jaime's advice in FROM GLOW TO GLUE: An Inspired Leadership Strategy That Sticks would be most effective for employees who are also devout...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Written by Laura Frost, SEEKING SASHA is a sweet love story about trauma and its consequences, as well as the possibility of rescue and healing—given...
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Rating:
4.6 / 5.0
Written by Christie Nicholls, SLOTH’S TOTALLY NOT WEIRD FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL is a heartfelt picture book that embraces self-acceptance, social courage, and the joy...
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Rating:
4.9 / 5.0
Jem Spears’s STARLIGHT AND CINNAMON is a deeply romantic, surprisingly complex, and wildly successful debut.
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
LAST MOMENTS: The Dark Shadows of Protest in Iran is a memorable, if sometimes harrowing, collection of stories. Hirbod Human’s careful prose is a lasting...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
W.G. Hladky's THE RED OCCUPATION is an impressive, immersive science-fiction adventure with vibrant characters and rich worldbuilding.
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Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
Written by Chip Jacobs, LATER DAYS subverts coming-of-age tropes and refuses to transform adolescent suffering into wisdom or institutional cruelty into meaning. Instead, it creates...
Rating:
3.9 / 5.0
Evocative prose, deeply layered world-building, and surprising plot twists overshadow the sometimes-tedious pace and hard-to-like characters in Joseph Sterk's SON OF THE BORDERLANDS.
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
With its combination of familiar fantasy tropes, inventive twists on those tropes, and broad worldbuilding, George Allen Miller's THE FLOATING LAKE OF DRESSA MOORE is...
Rating:
3.7 / 5.0
BLACK GLOVE is an action-packed, violent, comic book–style novel about a vigilante superhero and his battles with gang lords. M.A.N.’s straightforward prose style propels the...