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Here Lyeth Has More Bite Than Most Historical Fantasies
This is the kind of historical fantasy that earns its darkness instead of using it like wallpaper.
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Align Your Business with the Real You: Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success by Jennifer Musser
Startups are exhilaratingâand exhausting. Jennifer Musser knows. In Align Your Business with the Real You, she recounts building her business from scratch while
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Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank
Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village called Vereitel
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The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
About the book: You've always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps youâve made a pile of notesâeven written several chapters. B
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How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have
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Part 9: Interview with Ellenmorris Tiegerman, Author of Past Lives Denied
Professor Caitlyn Morrys, a passionate and vocal educator at a small college, finds herself at the heart of a fierce debate over academic freedom and teacher te
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Part 8: Interview with Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Belonging Matters
Introducing âBelonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinshipâ by Julie Ryan McGue "Belonging Matters" is a book that addresses adoption and it
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Part 10: Interview with Authors of "Fenix and the Firework Fliers: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story"
Introducing âFenix and the Firework Fliersâ by Once Upon a Dance, Christine Herbert and Scott Partridge Embark on a thrilling adventure with Fenix, a brave fire
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Little Ships: A Novel by Sandra J Scofield
About the Book: After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next day to sco
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Lonely Riders by Michael D. Dennis
About the Book: "Lonely Riders" is a gripping novel by Michael D. Dennis set in Los Angeles, following the tumultuous life of Kyle Whalen. Kyle, a hustler and p
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Running with Grace: A Wall Street Insiderâs Path to True Leadership, a Purposeful Life, and Joy in the Face of Adversity by Lori Van Dusen
About the Book: Nothing about Lori Van Dusen's childhood indicated she'd become one of the nation's top independent financial advisors. She was born prematurely
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Ride the Snake Road: Beamo Roamer's Hardcore Jaunt to the Wasteland by LeRoy Wow
About the Book: Ride The Snake Road is a science fiction novel that tells the story of scavenge man Beamo Roamer. Beamo gets his eyes on an ancient military map
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Soulscapes by Lee Woodman
About the Book: Soulscapes, the fifth volume in Lee Woodman's "scapes" series, is an exploration of the way we reach for godliness or soul in our lives and rela
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Tick
Book Summary: In a moment of desperation, Brad Hughes made an impassioned promise to God, but when should his responsibilities end? This question plagues Brad,
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These Things Happen: A Novel by Michael Eon
Book Summary: Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his painâexcept for the one thing that might work. Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under the shadow of h
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Fantastic Four: Full Circle
Alex Ross brings non-stop action and excitement, mixed with thought-provoking concepts in Fantastic Four: Full Circle. The story of the superheroes known as The
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A Streetcar Named Murder (New Orleans Mystery, A)
Valerie Cooper thought the toughest thing she would experience was an empty nest without her husband, but then she faces the pushing of a fellow parent Collette
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The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Donât Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me
Catherine Caroline Murphy lived a life of struggle and accomplishment during her ninety-five-year existence. She imbued her children with a strong will to fight
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One Last Secret
One Last Secret was fantastic from cover to cover. Most of the chapters are narrated by the main character, Dora, who becomes an escort after dropping out of sc
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Half Notes from Berlin
Itâs often said that âthe only thing that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothingâ. This quote, frequently misattributed to Edmund Burke,
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No Game for Knights
No Game For Knights is one of those short story compilations that miraculously has something for every reader to enjoy, regardless of their preferred genre. Are
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Order of the Night Jay (Book One)
Some woodland animals go off to camp, and it seems that not every animal is looking forward to the great outdoors. A bear named Frank likes video games and seem
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The Greatest in the World!
If youâve read Narwhal and Jelly books, youâll like The Greatest in the World, by the same author, Ben Clanton. The two books have the same type of drawings but
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A Ruinous Fate (Witchâs Dice)
Calla Rosewood lives in hiding from the witch queens, never staying in one place for more than a few months. Her Roles of Fate have determined that she will be
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Poor Tom
Poor Tom by Martin Drapkin tells the story of its main character, Julius, a forty-year-old man who I would describe as pretty lost in the world. Julius is a Jew
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Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
On the way to her PI job, Cameron encountered a woman who was clearly upset. After stopping to talk with her she realized that this woman was a potential client
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Two As One Forever: A Better You, A Better Marriage
What is marriage? For some people, it is a union between two people who have committed to loving and supporting each other for the rest of their lives. Apart fr
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How to Teach Your Cat a Trick: in Five Easy Steps (How to Cat books)
How to Teach Your Cat a Trick is funny and if you have or know of a cat, very true! The story has steps on how to train your cat to do any trick. In the story,
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Stellarlune
Stellarlune is a great book! I loved this book by Shannon Messenger. My grandma and my father liked this book too. This book continues the story after the previ
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Iâm Ogre It (I Like to Read Comics)
A family learns how to spend more time together when a new and unusual neighbor moves in next door. This book shows how a brother and sister can find something
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Her Hidden Genius
Her Hidden Genius is another fantastic novel about extraordinary but forgotten women by Marie Benedict. Specializing in women with great impact who have been ne
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Eating to Extinction: The Worldâs Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Food journalist Don Saladino has assembled an encyclopedic array of gripping food stories collected from around the world. The message is simple yet cautionary:
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White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female
For millennia, letters have been a powerful medium through which to express deepest sentiments and feelings about well-kept secrets. Educator and speaker Ronnie
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Worlds Long Lost
The question âAre we alone in the universe?â has never been answered with a definitive yes or no, but that hasnât stopped storytellers from looking to the stars
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The Wine Bible, 3rd Edition
The Wine Bible is the go-to book for anyone with questions about wine, who loves wine, and who wants to know more about wine. The book starts by describing the
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Night Lunch
What struck me first about Night Lunch was the wonderful style of the illustrations. The textures and subtle use of colors among a mainly sepia palette really m
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Doeâs Dandelions (Woodland Friends, 4)
Doeâs Dandelions is the story about a doe (deer) who was excitedly getting ready for the Petal Parade with her friends Porcupine, Squirrel, and Bear. Doe grew d
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Diper Ăverlöde (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 17)
In the newest installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is helping his brother Rodrick bring his band Loded Diper to fame- which is harder th
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A Ruinous Fate (Witchâs Dice)
Calla Rosewood lives in hiding from the witch queens, never staying in one place for more than a few months. Her Roles of Fate have determined that she will be
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Unbound II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Unbound II: Tales by Masters of Fantasy is a new anthology by award-winning author and editor Shawn Speakman. This anthology of seventeen tales contains fantast
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A Madmanâs Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
A tragic ending to a story may be all the more reason to read it, especially when that story is true. Almost four hundred enslaved Virginians should have been f
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One Long Listening: A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care
In the waning days of struggling with illness and preparing for the inevitable, a chaplain can serve as a guide to achieving spiritual comfort and healing. Read
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The Dawn of AI (Paperwar) by Ryan LeKodak
Book Summary: One malfunction⊠Millions dead⊠The search for answers begins⊠In the year 2040, the world's transportation is dominated by a highly advanced arti
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Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story
Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf is a different way of telling the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. In this story, there arenât just three
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Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires
Ben Ackerâs Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires is just that. Warning: If you donât like vampires, please do not read this book. It starts out with an in
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Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
Our Shadows Have Claws is an anthology featuring different stories by a plethora of Latinx authors. Each story is a creative tale with a mix of cultural folklor
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Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories is a collection of stories from the daytime talk show host and former soap star Kelly Ripa. It features juicy behind-the-sc
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Forever Cousins
Forever Cousins is a sweet story about two cousins who are best friends, Kara and Amanda. Karaâs family decides to move to the Rez, or reservation, from the Cit
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The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
After years of incarceration for a crime she never intended to commit, Tookie has finally found stability with a husband she adores and a new job as a bookselle
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Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps by  Hank Quense
About the Book: Self-publishing a book is difficult. This book simplifies it by breaking down a self-publishing and marketing project into 10 steps. This step-b
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Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologie
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Ms. Pretty Rickey The Street Sweeper by Bryneen Gary
Book Summary: Ms. Pretty Rickey: The Street Sweeper is a Force to Be Reckoned with, Infamous Poetry about Chief Officials, Freedom from War, Dirty Money, Narcot
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My Expansion by Nancy Manet
Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Donât run too fast. Donât get your feet wet. Do what the âgoodâ bears are doi