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4.0 / 5.0
WIT AND WITCHERY by Geraldine Burrows starts as a well-crafted homage to Jane Austen before veering into an occasionally grim yet utterly delicious melodrama.
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4.0 / 5.0
The sixth in a series of medical thrillers, Geoffrey M Cooper's THE FIFTH STUDENT is an entertaining look at the sinister side of academic achievement.
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
Veteran coach and consultant Michelle Gladieux's COMMUNICATE WITH COURAGE provides a much-needed corrective to the struggles of effective communication that is both entertaining and informative.
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
Barbara Bergren's WITNESS FOR MY FATHER is a richly detailed story and a testament to the indomitable human spirit.
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Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
Filled with 1990s nostalgia, Cat Treadgold's THE SILENT WOODSMAN sizzles with an addictive "will they-won’t they" tension that starts from the moment of the main...
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3.0 / 5.0
A luxurious and sensual story of a young woman's journeys around the world, BEYOND THE SEA by Nina Purtee is pure wish-fulfillment, if occasionally less...
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4.3 / 5.0
GRACE’S LAW is author Ashley Norman's well-written, fast-paced and timely novel of the prejudice and struggle survivors of sexual violence face in the pursuit of...
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4.2 / 5.0
WE ARE ALL MADE OF SCARS contains vital insight into the generational trauma of alcoholism. Honest and open throughout, author Christopher Morris is unafraid to...
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
Any woman diagnosed with breast cancer (or indeed her friends and family) will find Jennifer A. Douglas' A BREAST CANCER JOURNEY (Living it One Step...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Stories in Jeffrey M. Feingold’s THERE IS NO DEATH IN FINDING NEMO are sometimes poignant, frequently hilarious, and almost always surreal.
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Rating:
4.7 / 5.0
Anna Madorsky's GUTTED is a taut, harrowing psychological drama with a darkly humorous and poignant voice and a captivating debut about the human condition, loneliness,...
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3.8 / 5.0
James Hutson-Wiley's THE MERCHANT FROM SEPHARAD ultimately falls back on simplistic moralizing, but its portrayal of burgeoning globalism in the early medieval Mediterranean is compelling...