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July 2, 2025
PROPERTY OF THE REVOLUTION: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town
By Ana Hebra FlasterRating:
5.0 / 5.0
With a friendly voice and intimate detail, Ana Hebra Flaster’s moving PROPERTY OF THE REVOLUTION: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town...
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Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
Frank S. Joseph brings journalistic chops and novelistic insight to this ambitious novel about Chicago's racial fault lines in the 1950s. Through the tangled fates...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Andre Durivage's ERNEST quickly evolves into a tale of revenge, generational trauma, and the excesses of wealth. It marks an impressive beginning for what will...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
Paul Harmon writes with confidence and control in SEVEN TREASURES, moving smoothly between timelines and crafting an emotionally compelling story of courage, cowardice, and the...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
For fans of thoughtful historical fiction that values depth and insight over action-packed sensationalism, Helena P. Schrader’s COLD VICTORY stands as a poignant and satisfying...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
David Gittlin's RETURN TO ANELEYA is another enjoyable episode in the Silver Sphere series that will make fans excited for the next.
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0
Shahed Ghanimati's PARTIAL TRUTHS is a passionate, intensely emotional, sensual, and extremely frustrating novel, as two people barrel towards disaster without having the sense to...
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0
Salvatore Cataudella's THE NOEMA CYCLE can sometimes be unclear, but that may just attract readers interested in a novel that's conceptually rich, often poetic, and...
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Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
Elizabeth Michaud's poetry in THE BONES IN THE GARDEN beautifully and compellingly runs the gamut from historical injustice to modern themes of love, loss, and...
Rating:
3.7 / 5.0
Jerry Payne's 365 QUOTES ON WRITING THAT WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER WRITER offers diversion and inspiration for the struggling author.
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Kim Hays’s A FONDNESS FOR TRUTH is an intelligent, emotionally resonant novel.
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
Rich Leder’s EXTRATERRESTRIAL NOIR is a slap-bang absurdist thriller that bounces from page to page and clearly loves every minute of it.