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4.5 / 5.0
No mere thriller, Ruth Cherry 's SOMETHING’S GOING ON HERE is a well-written and fascinating deep dive into one man’s reckoning with a town’s tragic...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
FUNERAL DAZE by Dorian Box manages to be laugh-out-loud funny, heartwarmingly tender, and full of lively action and suspense, all at once – a thoroughly...
Rating:
3.9 / 5.0
Though the plot is somewhat familiar, SCOTTISH KNIGHT offers a serviceable addition to S.T. Cameron's Young Explorers series of YA adventure novels.
IR Approved
June 21, 2023
MY LINK TO MILDRED: Interrupting the Epidemic of Trauma via Nonviolent Communication
By Cindy BigbieRating:
4.0 / 5.0
Part memoir, part communications primer, Cindy Bigbie's MY LINK TO MILDRED is a must-read for anyone in search of a reliable path to post-traumatic healing.
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
Sandra Wagner-Wright's 's ARROGANCE, AMBITION & PRIDE details the rise of the Crowninshield and Derby merchant families in 18th-century New England with meticulous research and...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
Written by Patty Merski and beautifully illustrated by Chanda Patel, MOTHER BEACH (the joy of finding beach glass) features reflections on the whimsicality of a...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Full of high drama and exciting twists, Stephen Maitland-Lewis LEGACY OF ATONEMENT is a page-turning thriller which reimagines the events from the Second World War...
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Rating:
4.1 / 5.0
A simple story well told, Marcus Lessard's THE FOREVER YOUNG PRISONER combines an old-fashioned mystery with gritty prison fiction.
IR Approved
Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
NEVER A CLOUD, Jo Brunini's complex, deeply introspective take on art, family connections, and long-buried secrets, beautifully captures the shifting emotional truths—and deceptions—among its expansive...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
A well-written combination of polemic, boardroom anecdotes and advice, Shireen Muhiudeen's WE ARE ALL STAKEHOLDERS provides analysis of the pros and cons of ESG principles...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
J.L. Askew's ALASKA DEADLY is a compelling action thriller, but the author occasionally lets plot and exposition get in the way of a good story.
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Edited by Lorraine Ash, CORONA CITY: Voices from an Epicenter is an intimate, deeply affecting time capsule of the early pandemic that is likely to...