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Book Review: Pathway to Freedom

Pathway to Freedom by Lucinda T. Green, Ph.D. Genre: Religion & Spirituality / Buddha ISBN: 9798891324985 Print Length: 224 pages Publisher: Atmosphere Press Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by John M. Murray An accessible and engaging overview of Buddhism, meditation, and how to incorporate their teachings into modern life While humanity has evolved from the hunter/gatherer tribes […]

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by Victoria E. Schwab

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab on June 10, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy Pages: 544 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.A young girl grows up wild and wily, her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María […]

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Review: The Cobbler’s Crusaders by Rick Steigelman

Synopsis: Jacquelyn Pajot is a nine-year-old American girl whose excitement over a solo visit to her grandmother in Paris is soon diminished by the discovery that the grandmother is far more devoted to dragging her to church every day than she is in showing her the much-anticipated sights of the city. Jacquelyn’s despair is remedied […]

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Quicksilver by Callie Hart

Quicksilver by Callie Hart on September 10, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / Romance / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Pages: 670 Format: Audiobook, Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads I’ve had Quicksilver sitting on my shelf for a while, and honestly, I’m not sure what took me so long […]

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Night Music by Jojo Moyes

In Night Music, Jojo Moyes composes more than just a story—she creates a melancholic sonata where loss lingers like a note unresolved and healing comes not in sweeping gestures, but in slow, stubborn rhythms. Unlike the immediate tug of Me Before You or the sweeping scale of The Giver of Stars, this novel leans into […]

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Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

In her first foray into the cozy mystery genre, Murder at Gulls Nest, acclaimed Irish author Jess Kidd delivers a wonderfully atmospheric tale that introduces readers to one of the most unconventional detectives in recent mystery fiction. Following her success with novels like Himself (2016) and Things in Jars (2019), both of which garnered significant […]

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Midnight in Soap Lake by Matthew J. Sullivan

In Midnight in Soap Lake, Matthew J. Sullivan returns with a masterful psychological mystery that simmers with tension, grief, and the surreal pull of myth. Set in a fictional Washington town whose name is as peculiar as its history, the novel examines how places absorb pain and how the people within them either deny, distort, […]

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Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman

Hannah Beckerman’s fifth novel, Three Mothers, is a taut, emotionally charged psychological thriller that examines the lengths to which mothers will go to protect their children. Set against the backdrop of an affluent London suburb, this compelling narrative explores the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Isla Richardson’s death in a hit-and-run accident and the devastating consequences that […]

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Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig

Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig on December 26, 2017 Genres: Fiction / Coming of Age, Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Literary Pages: 384 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads “I don’t want to answer so I wait. Because sometimes if you don’t answer then someone will answer for you or someone will […]

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The Boomerang by Robert Bailey

In The Boomerang, bestselling author Robert Bailey trades the courtroom for the war room, then for the windswept plains of the American Southwest. The result is a compelling political thriller that feels disturbingly relevant. This is a novel about secrets so dangerous they demand silence, and about a father so determined to protect his daughter […]