August 24, 2026
The Silver Book looks like the kind of book I would mention to a friend first
The Silver Book gives off the kind of book-club-ready energy I tend to trust.
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August 18, 2026
A hand-sell for readers tired of punishment-as-fitness
Some wellness books want to shame you into effort. This one is more interested in whether your body can actually trust what you are asking it to do.
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Why The Silver Book feels easy to recommend
The Silver Book sounds shaped for regulars who want an inviting recommendation with some personality, especially when I want reader fit, mood, and recommendation value.
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The Silver Book feels like a good fit for readers who want something dependable
This sounds like a thoughtful historical fiction pick for readers who want a clear recommendation without a sales pitch.
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August 3, 2026
Unfettered feels like a good fit for readers who want something dependable
This sounds like a thoughtful books pick for readers who want a clear recommendation without a sales pitch.
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July 20, 2026
Why Psychopomp & Circumstance feels easy to recommend
Books become easier to recommend when they sound specific about the experience they are offering, and this one does.
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November 29, 2024
Cute & Cuddly Crochet: Learn to make huggable amigurumi animals (Art Makers, 8)
Cute & Cuddly Crochet is nothing but cuteness overload! The reader/crafter will learn to make one or all of the twelve animal options, including flamingo, lion, sloth, narwhal, dinosaur, and [...]
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November 28, 2024
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Delicious Dinners
60 No-Stress, Limited-Mess, Sure-to-Impress Meals Sophia Kaur is a self-described lazy girl when it comes to the kitchen. She is a social media influencer in the cooking area, and consequently, [...]
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November 27, 2024
The Delivery Man: The Art of turning ideas into products in Silicon Valley
"The Delivery Man is part memoir and part how-to guide. Author and Silicon Valley tech guru Sebastien Taveau displays the knowledge that only a product delivery man (or woman) could [...]
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November 26, 2024
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Innovation helped build the city of Palo Alto. The city lies at the heart of “Silicon Valley” and is the wealthiest area in the United States. Despite the vast concentration [...]
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November 25, 2024
Finding Loretta
“I was pulled into the many layers of Finding Loretta from the very beginning. From her rocky relationship with her adoptive parents to her non-relenting search for her birth parents [...]
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November 22, 2024
How to Draw Super Cute Things with Bobbie Goods: Learn to draw & color absolutely adorable art! (101 Things to Draw, 3)
Drawing is a learned skill, and this book is geared primarily toward young children to encourage them to draw. The introductory pages list the materials needed to draw, and encourage [...]
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November 21, 2024
Choose Your Own Adventure: Forecast From Stonehenge
Forecast from StoneHenge, by R. A. Montgomery is a choose your own adventure graphic novel about finding an enigmatic man named Alistair. Alistair supposedly can help you to find the [...]
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November 20, 2024
Cosmic Creatures: The Runaway Rumblebear (Cosmic Creatures, 2)
Cosmic Creatures: The Runaway Rumblebear is the story of a young girl named Charlie and her "pet" robot named Random, along with her family (mom, dad, brother), who are Earthlings, [...]
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November 19, 2024
It Came from the Trees
This is the perfect season to read a book about the Legend of Bigfoot. When the Girl Scout group goes to the woods to find their missing friend. It seems [...]
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November 18, 2024
Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku
Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku (Chronicles of the Avatar Book 5) (Chronicles of the Avatar, 5) (Volume 5) The Avatar has been announced in the Fire Nation [...]
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November 15, 2024
How to Zoom Your Room
How to Zoom Your Room is the perfect book for anyone who has had to use the online platform. Many people started working from home during the Covid 19 pandemic, [...]
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November 14, 2024
Giga Town: The Guide to Manga Iconography
Have you ever wondered what the symbols, like a sweat drip or a snot bubble, mean while reading manga? Look no further than Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography [...]
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November 13, 2024
Candle & Crow: Book Three of the Ink & Sigil series
The job of a sigil agent is not an easy one. Enforcing the contracts and treaties with the gods and monsters is a lot of work. Sigil agent Al MacBharrais [...]
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November 12, 2024
Fury in Her Eyes
Fury in Her Eyes by Phillip Vega is a compelling tale about a boy's teenage life, a mysterious villain, and the excitement of young love. Who hit Jackie in the [...]
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November 11, 2024
The Reaping
Agents Harry Steinbeck and Van Reed are back together again, this time looking into a cold case from twenty-five years ago that left a family of five brutally murdered. Their [...]
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November 8, 2024
Mit Out Sound
When Emily Bennett hears about a never-finished movie starring John Wayne and James Dean, it almost feels like fate to run into celebrity impersonators of each actor. Maybe she could [...]
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November 7, 2024
Crypt of the Moon Spider (The Lunar Gothic Trilogy, 1)
Veronica Brinkley has mental problems, and she’s very likely depressed, but her husband just wants to pack her off somewhere as she is no longer fulfilling her “wifely duties.” It [...]
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November 6, 2024
The Faraway Mountains
A story of friendship, connection, and solidarity, The Faraway Mountains by Radu Guiasu is a moving recollection of life during the Communist era in Eastern Europe. Following the stories of [...]
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November 5, 2024
Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
Anyone who loves the solitude of forests and worships at the foot of magnificent trees will want to have this collection of stories in their library. The editor has chosen [...]
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November 4, 2024
The Make-Believers
The Make-Believers is a new children's book by Ryan Seacrest and his sister Meredith Seacrest Leach. The message of this book is to use your imagination and explore the idea [...]
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October 29, 2024
The Group Trip: A Novel
The Group Trip follows a group of college friends as they navigate college life and adulthood. The book alternates between the present day and the past. Chloe is the main [...]
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October 28, 2024
The Butter House
The Butter House is a gorgeous gem of a story, and for being such a small book, it certainly packs a large emotional punch. I’m honestly mystified by how many [...]
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October 26, 2024
The Reservoir: A Novella
This bloviated novella with a bonus short story at the end would not have been published if the author weren't David Duchovny. The Reservoir is mainly a literal fever dream, [...]
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October 24, 2024
Caught in a Hazy Dream
“Caught in a Hazy Dream is a beautiful collection of poems that will touch the hearts of its readers. Author Tiffany Mackay writes with a light hand and recalls beautiful [...]
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September 18, 2023
Just Do Nothing by Joanna Hardis
Introduction 4: Just Do Nothing by Joanna Hardis is a captivating exploration of the value of slowing down and embracing the present moment. Through her eloquent prose and relatable anecdotes, [...]
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September 4, 2023
Kissing Asphalt by Delicia Niami
Book Summary: Resilience isn’t inherited. It’s a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new. Meet four-year-old [...]
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July 17, 2023
The Girls Are Good
Set in the competitive world of gymnastics, Ilaria Bernardini’s The Girls Are Good is a dark tale of the toxic effect of secret keeping and telling young girls that their [...]
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July 17, 2023
Flourishing on the Edge of Faith: Seven Practices for a New We
Have you ever found yourself doubting the efficiency of prayer? Many Christians have found themselves questioning their beliefs and faith as a result of their past experiences. It gets worse [...]
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July 17, 2023
Delaware Before the Railroads: A Diamond Among the States
Delaware Before the Railroads documents the history of the State of Delaware from 1638-1832. Before 1832, business owners had to ship goods to Philadelphia via water since the roads were [...]
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July 14, 2023
I Love It When You Lie: A suspense novel
I Love It When You Lie follows the story of three sisters, June, Clementine, and Tara, after the death of their beloved grandmother. Over the course of three days, we [...]
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July 14, 2023
Delicious Monsters
Daisy can see ghosts. Most of the time, she can ignore them and go on with her life. When her boyfriend suddenly dumps her, and her mother inherits a mansion, [...]
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July 14, 2023
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Lost Stories Collection
Get to know more about Scott’s beloved characters in this stunning collection of short stories. Each story is set during a different time period (ranging from 500 BCE to 2005) [...]
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July 13, 2023
Tree Whispers (Child’s Play Library)
When you walk in the park or stroll through the forest, do you ever imagine the trees whispering to each other or even to you? Do you ever wonder if [...]
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July 13, 2023
The GutSMART Protocol: Revitalize Your Health, Boost Your Energy, and Lose Weight in Just 14 Days with Your Personalized Gut-Healing Plan
The GutSmart Protocol is a book that almost everyone would find useful. In it, Author Vincent Pedre, MD explains the many diseases and symptoms that can be caused by an [...]
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July 13, 2023
My Last Innocent Year: A Novel
Isabel Rosen, a senior at Wilder College in 1998, wants to be a writer but isn’t sure if she has the goods. When she makes it into a prestigious workshop, [...]
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July 13, 2023
Elephants Remember
In Elephants Remember, author and illustrator Jennifer O’Connell writes of Lawrence Anthony’s remarkable journey to save a herd of wild elephants from imminent death. When Lawrence received that initi
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July 13, 2023
That Fat Cat Who Changed His Ways
A lazy fat cat might be cute to look at but not when it refuses to do its job and chase the mice away. This book, with a story that [...]
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July 13, 2023
What Are You?
This book is about celebrating what makes an individual unique and different, and teaches children that other children might have their own differences, uniqueness and more. Even though at the [...]
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July 7, 2023
PAPER War – The Dawn of AI
The year is 2040. Transportation, including planes, trains, automobiles, and ships, both cargo and passenger ones, are all controlled by self-driving software called Gaius, an artificial intelligence
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July 7, 2023
A Walk to the End of the Earth
In A Walk to the End of the Earth, Jeffrey Kendall describes how his desire to be closer to God prompted him to travel the El Camino de Santiago on [...]
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July 7, 2023
The Coach’s Way: The Art and Practice of Powerful Coaching in Any Field
Prolific author Eric Maisel offers sound advice and food for thought through The Coach’s Way, a dynamic guide designed for business and personal coaches of various experience levels. The work [...]
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July 6, 2023
Tenmile
Sissy, daughter of the town doctor, often helps her father as he ministers to the people of Tenmile, a poor mining town in Colorado. At age thirteen, sometimes this work [...]
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July 6, 2023
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
On April 19, 1993, the FBI had exhausted their patience with the Branch Davidians after a nearly three-month standoff. A breach had been ordered to get the men, women, and [...]
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July 6, 2023
How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies: Sweet and Savory Tips for the Writing Life
So you think you have a novel in you just waiting to be written. This book may be just what you need to either help you get there or dissuade [...]
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July 5, 2023
Home Away From Home
Every summer, Mia and her mom visit Mia’s grandma in tiny Stone Harbor, Maine. This year Mia is going by herself. Her parents had divorced, and Mom and her boyfriend, [...]
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July 5, 2023
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
Rabia Chaudry’s memoir Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is as much about food, love, and family as it is about the social, cultural, and physical pressures on women to look and [...]
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July 5, 2023
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars is a captivating book for evolutionary science nerds and philosophers alike. Unveiling his biology, psychology, and economics research, Lixing Sun takes a [...]
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July 1, 2023
Grace Needs Space!: (A Graphic Novel)
Grace Mendez is really looking forward to flying to the Moon to visit her mom, Kendra! Grace already has many things she wants to do, but her mom is always [...]
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July 1, 2023
Hungry Ghost
No one knows Valerie Chu’s secret. For the longest time, Valerie’s mother has always been watching what Valerie eats, and telling her to lose weight, no matter what. You have [...]
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July 1, 2023
Mapmakers and the Enchanted Mountain: (A Graphic Novel)
Alidade, a Mapmaker, is headed to the mountain village to bring back Harmony and other Memris. Lewis and Blue accompany him along his adventure to the mountains, and they meet [...]
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June 30, 2023
Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher by Kenny Loui
About the book: The tale of a man drifting through life, collecting cute, cuddly plushies and valuable life lessons along the way. Kenny Loui is a self-proclaimed "UFO catcher," whose [...]
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June 28, 2023
A Match in the Making (The Matchmakers)
Jen Turano has written many historical romances, and her latest is the start of a new series, presumably about matchmakers falling in love. At least, I hope that’s the case [...]
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June 28, 2023
Southern Inspired: More Than 100 Delicious Dishes from My American Table to Yours
In Southern Inspired, Chef Jernard Wells tweaks some of his favorite recipes to make them all his own. Throughout the book, you will find a host of classic dishes, such [...]
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June 28, 2023
Mystery, Crime, Thriller / Misfire (2) (The Kate Downey Medical Mystery Series)
Tammy Euliano is the master of the medical thriller. In Misfire, anesthesiologist Kate Downey leads the way as a new medical implant from Kadence meant to act as both a [...]
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June 26, 2023
The Home Café: Creative Recipes for Espresso, Matcha, Tea and Coffee Drinks
I don’t think I have ever been so excited to try so many recipes out from a cookbook. And this isn’t even really a cookbook! It’s a coffee and tea [...]
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June 26, 2023
Gemination: Hear No More
At the start of what promises to be an exciting new series, Melsa M Manton presents us with Leyla Stone, the pseudonym of an operative for Sedition, a shadowy organization [...]
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June 26, 2023
Rough Justice
Callie James and Cash Logan are no strangers to dangerous situations. In Rough Justice, a young woman named Sara is getting ready to immigrate to the United States from France. [...]
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May 18, 2023
The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise
Story Summary: She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla's mother died. Now everyone [...]
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April 19, 2023
The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change The World by Anne Devereux-Mills
Book Summary: In The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change the World, Anne Devereux-Mills uses her insights as Founder of Parlay House to show how small actions can create [...]
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March 19, 2023
A Monster Escapes by Lewis Wolfe
Book Summary: A Monster Escapes is a character driven horror story that explores all the shades of gray in life. When a demon strikes the small town of Brettville there [...]
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February 11, 2023
When We Were Brave by Karla M Jay
Book Summary: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death [...]
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January 9, 2023
Aye-Aye Gets Lucky – Endangered & Misunderstood Book 1 by Terri Tatchell
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #6 Book Summary: Join endangered and misunderstood AYE-AYE on his quest to win back the hearts of the people of Madagascar after his mischievous pranks get [...]
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December 8, 2022
Adjustments: A Novel by Will Willingham
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #5 Book Summary: By turns thoughtful and hilarious (even, inexplicably, both at the same time), this deeply Midwestern book quietly unfolds a vision for how to [...]
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November 7, 2022
Heart to Beat by Brian Lima MD
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #4 Book Summary: Success is not reserved for the smartest or most talented—it’s earned by those who want it the most. Heart conquers all and the [...]
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December 6, 2019
Rosa by Barbara de la Cuesta
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #4 Book Summary “There were little sins and big sins, and if you committed too many little sins you were more likely to go on to [...]
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December 4, 2019
Knightmare Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #2 Book Summary: Gravedigger Volke Savan wants nothing more than to be like his hero, the legendary magical swashbuckler, Gregory Ruma. First he needs to become [...]
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December 2, 2019
The Baseball by James Flerlage
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #1 Know a baseball or sports fan in your life? The Baseball by James Flerlage might be the perfect gift. Book Summary: Landon Myers is a [...]
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October 27, 2019
I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion
Book Summary: A book of 366 mantras or affirmations to raise and encourage the self-esteem and self-belief of children (plus adults), told through the eyes of young siblings Hao Finley [...]
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October 27, 2019
Humongous (& Cool) Words For Kids by SB Hilarion
Book Summary: After immersing themselves in mantras in I AM Manifesto, young siblings Hao Finley and Sabine Yi Lee are on their journey of seeking knowledge from around the world. [...]
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September 4, 2019
Lesath by A. M. Kherbash
Book Summary: Amateur journalist Greg travels to a remote mountain area to investigate rumors of a sinister building only to find himself imprisoned there. As he tries to escape, he [...]
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July 15, 2019
A Peach For Big Jim by Lisa Belmont
Book Summary: In 1947 racially-charged Mills Hollow, South Carolina, Chloe Mason knows not to go near the Negroes who live in the river shacks, especially sixteen-year-old Big Jim. He’s something [...
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May 15, 2019
Hostile Takeover by Cristelle Comby
Book Summary: Moonlighting as Death’s earth-bound envoy, P.I. Bellamy Vale specializes in the weird, wacky, and slightly unhinged. When a mysterious beast savagely mauls random residents of Cold City,
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The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox
Readers enamored with the Salem witch trials or novels of women forging their own way against all odds will love the latest offering from Hester Fox. The Witch of Willow [...]
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December 30, 2018
Butterfly Hill by Brendan le Grange
Book Summary: A psychopath with mother issues. A policeman with his career on the line. A beautiful agent with unclear allegiances. And an ancient organisation guarding a secret that could [...]
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June 17, 2018
The Way by Kristen Wolf
Book Summary Anna is a striking and spirited young girl living in ancient Palestine where being a daughter is a disappointment. While her father excitedly anticipates the birth of his [...]
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February 6, 2018
Last Song and Dance by Christopher Woods
Story Summary LAST SONG AND DANCE is an illustrated novel which tells the grim story of Cy Sullivan, failed alcoholic author who has returned to his hometown after years of [...]
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December 30, 2017
The Prize by Geoffrey M. Cooper
Book Summary What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? Deceit, fraud, even murder? Set in the competitive world of cutting-edge medical research, The Prize is a science thriller [...]
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December 21, 2017
A Police Action by AA Freda
Summary: A Police Action is a gripping coming-of-age Vietnam War-era romantic novel. It is the story of two lost and confused young adults. It is love at first sight when [...]
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December 5, 2017
Charmer Boy Gypsy Girl by Victor Harrington
Story Summary: The essence and meaning of transcendent love between two people—the kernel of human existence—is often found in the crucible of war. Such was the love between Bosko, a [...]
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September 15, 2017
Becoming by Fouad Azim
Becoming by Fouad Azim Story Summary This is a story of blooming love and betrayal, about children coming of age, of conscience and the sociopaths who lack it; it is [...]
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July 31, 2017
Sonnets Walking the Great Divide by Cecil Welles
Sonnets Walking the Great Divide by Cecil Welles Book Summary This book represents a sample of the author's thought clarification. Somber, crazy, joyful, or eclectic in subjects, the sonnet format [..
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July 31, 2017
Confessions of an American Doctor by Max Kepler
Book Summary In 2005, I was arrested by agents from both the US Postal Service and the Food and Drug Administration for the importation of illegal human growth hormone and [...]
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July 31, 2017
Clockwork Strange: Into The Whirlwind by Dale McInnes
Clockwork Strange: Into The Whirlwind by Dale McInnes Story Summary: A North American novel inspired by Karel Zeman's 1955 children's classic tale Cesta Do Praveku Our first novel begins in [...]
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July 22, 2017
Lucia Zarate By Cecilia Velastegui
Story summary: Lucia Zárate is based on the poignant, real-life odyssey of the world's smallest woman. Pretty and gregarious, Lucia Zárate was just twenty inches tall. A celebrity after her [...]
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June 8, 2017
Gideon: The Sound and The Glory
Story Summary: Unsung heroes and murderous villains, hidden forever in ancient shadows, now leap to life – blazing onto the pages of revelation. Gideon, a lowly woodcutter, is blessed by [...]
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May 25, 2017
Elmina's Fire by Linda Carleton
Story Summary: What happens when a troubled young woman dares to follow the stirrings of her soul in turbulent times? Elmina begins life with a troubled childhood in a medieval [...]
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May 21, 2017
She Came From Afar – Courtney Lindberg – New Book
5 Stars From San Francisco Book Review – https://sanfranciscobookreview.com/product/she-came-from-afar/ Each family is different, and this is especially true for families who have adopted children. No
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May 17, 2017
The Uncanny Valley by S.W. Campbell – New Book
Story Summary: We all know a Paul. A person who seems to see stuff that isn’t there. The type the polite call quirky and the blunt call nuts. Conspiracies? He’s [...]
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May 14, 2017
Leadership Reflections by Dr. Lisa Aldisert – Self Help Book
Book Summary Do you think of yourself as a leader? Leadership starts with a mindset, not a title. Leaders influence. They share keen insight. They command respect without demanding it. [...]
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May 13, 2017
Gringo By Dan “Tito” Davis
Story Summary: Dan "Tito" Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that's so small everyone knows their neighbor's cat's name. But once he got out, he made some noise. [...]
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May 12, 2017
Harold Hardscrabble by G.D. Dess
Harold Hardscrabble, by G. D. Dess, captures the feelings of frustration and helplessness that many of us experience in our daily lives. These sentiments are embodied in the contemplative, quietly [..
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May 12, 2017
The Hunter: Awakening by Nicholas Arriaza
Story Summary: The Hunter: Awakening, is the first of a series of novels that will explore the nature of good and evil and the question of redemption: Is it available [...]
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April 19, 2017
Rage and Mercy: Part One by Scott Dresden
Story Summary "This thrilling book delivers a violent tale that is ultimately as surprising as it is gruesome." Kirkus Review Sayer didn't expect his life to go any further than [...]
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April 15, 2017
The Salad Oil King–by author M.G. Crisci
Reviewed by the San Francisco Book Review, getting 5 stars From the review: The story of Alfonso “Fonso” Gravanese has all the elements needed to be a classic tale of [...]
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April 15, 2017
The Hunger Saint by Olivia Kate Cerrone
Hunger Saint is about Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to support his family after his father's untimely death. These child laborers were called carusu [...]
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April 10, 2017
The Device Trial by Tom Breen – New Book
The Device Trial got a 5 star review from San Francisco Book Review here – http://sanfranciscobookreview.com/product/the-device-trial/ From the review: The Device Trial, by Tom Breen, takes readers in
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