A feel-good literary novel on understanding an unknown past, forming lasting and life-changing friendships, and developing a second chance to pursue a better future The Dyer Legacy opens with a strange event: Claire, a young woman who’s new in town, is confronted by two potential assailants. At first, it seems the two assailants are not […]
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Synopsis: The year is 1686. King Louis XIV’s dragoons arrive in Alençon. Their mission: to brutally eradicate the Huguenot faith. The d’Albert family’s flight is shattered when marshals ambush their wagon, seizing the father. Now, the fate of his family rests on young Gédéon. He must navigate treacherous, hostile lands, protect his mother and ailing […]
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Some novels ease you in with a quiet morning and a cup of coffee. When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams opens instead with a man’s neck snapping on a frozen football field, and that brutal first chapter quietly sets the terms for the gentler story that follows. This is a book about the second […]
There is a particular thrill in opening a Regency romance and finding that the heroine’s great ambition is not a husband or a country estate, but a complete catalogue of the rudest words in the English language. That conceit sits at the centre of The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit, and it is […]
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Doctor AI by Robin Blackstone
A visionary blueprint for American health care that grounds ambitious technological solutions in the complexities of human culture Robin Blackstone’s Doctor AI arrives as both diagnosis and treatment plan for American medicine’s deepest ailments. A surgeon turned health care strategist, Blackstone channels decades of frontline experience into a sweeping proposal: the Health 4.0(H4) Alliance, a […]
All We Hunger For by Anna Mercier
Some books make you hungry. This one makes you hungry, then quietly explains why your hunger was a political choice somebody else made for you. All We Hunger For by Anna Mercier arrives as a debut, and it wears its ambition right out front: a magical baking contest, a slow-burn romance, and a city split […]
A quietly moving story shaped less by violent spectacle than by the deep-seated ache to be understood “Once, long ago, I was in love. And I was loved.” In The Era of Penumbra, the third title in Yona Katz’s The Rise of Penumbra series, certainty has begun to unravel for Asha, Yusra, Kadmiel, and Ranan. […]
Finding My Way by Marc A. Crowley
An understated yet powerful collection of poetry that highlights the importance of leaning on faith in God to get through hard times Finding My Way: One Man’s Spiritual Quest for the Divine Presence is Marc A. Crowley’s deeply personal exploration of life lived amid faith and all the ups and downs along the way, with […]