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The fast-paced action and adventure in J. Luke Bennecke's ECHO FROM A BAYOU feels cinematic in scope with many twisting turns and a shocking ending...
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3.5 / 5.0
Readers will feel uplifted by Brion K. Hanks' technically flawed but emotionally vibrant poems in his TALES OF A TRAVELER IN POETRY AND PROSE.
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3.0 / 5.0
John E. Morgan's A SUITE SITUATION: NEVER SAY NEVER is an enjoyable but sometimes repetitive love letter to big, beautiful women that blends naturalism and...
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4.3 / 5.0
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK WITH MURDER is the third book in Nicole Dieker's impressive Larkin Day series that finds the title character as charming as...
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4.0 / 5.0
A. R. Alexander's 17 PLANETS – THE CAPTAIN is a sprawling and complex novel space epic that comes with a warning of what the future...
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4.2 / 5.0
Debut author Christine Fallert Kessides' wonderfully rich young adult novel, MAGDA, STANDING, includes period details which are convincingly evoked and a fully realized protagonist in...
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4.0 / 5.0
Part legal procedural, part mystery thriller and an opener for a potential series, the debut appearance by defense attorney Mason Mitchell in Lewis Allan's MOUSE...
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4.5 / 5.0
With LAST LIAR STANDING, Danielle M. Wong delivers a breathless, fast-paced mystery full of twists and turns that hooks the reader from the very first...
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4.8 / 5.0
J.W.S. Getty's CLEOPATRA'S TOMB AND THE REGIT TIGERS OF EGYPT is a delightful land-and-sea adventure thanks to a creative plot, a contemporary “save the world”...
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4.5 / 5.0
Author Liana Gardner has won many awards for her middle grade novels and titles for older teens and by the end of the emotional, action-packed...
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5.0 / 5.0
Ana Atanaskovic's MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA is a must-read—couched in history, but flowing with genuine affection and adulation—from its seemingly calm introduction through its turbulent...