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Review: Yale Village, Appalachia by L. Gale

Synopsis: In the year 1784 romance blossoms in unexpected places on the frontier. Kentucky is still part of Virginia and the First Nations clash with pioneers in the struggle to settle western Appalachia while the newly forming United States is established. Follow key members of the backwater village of Yale, Kentucky before its history was […]

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Best psychological Gothic books: dread that lives in the mind

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Falling Like Snow by Misty Wilson

On the night after Thanksgiving, two teenagers share a couch, a comforter and a bowl of sweets while a classic Nora Ephron romance plays out its final scene. The girl is convinced the film proves something: that a person can simply know, on sight, that they have met the love of their life. The boy, […]

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Chain Reaction by Lee Child and Andrew Child

The motel on El Camino Real is dressed as a Swiss chalet, with snowshoes on the lobby walls and a desk clerk in a farmer’s brown wool suit. Across the street, after dinner, an electric sedan sits dark with two broad silhouettes in the front. Reacher leaves his curtains open six inches, turns off the […]

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Crazy Love by Adam Roa

An impassioned poetry collection about the myriad forms of love Featuring rhythmic poems and raw journal entries, Crazy Love is a collection all about love. It’s a journey through the waves of romantic love, the challenges of self-love, and the unexpected ways that love shows up in heartache and healing. The poetry featured across this […]

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When the World Was Happy by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

On the afternoon of the twins’ seventeenth birthday, the party turns into a concert. Emma sits at the piano in a blue dress, her brother CheChe sings, and the guests dance around them until the applause comes. It is the kind of scene most novels would rush past on the way to the plot. When […]

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Joy Overcame Sorrow by Jerry L. Woodbridge

A tender exploration of childhood grief, faith, family, and the journey from sorrow toward hope Joy Overcame Sorrow follows ten-year-old Joy Marie Carter as she navigates the devastating loss of her father, Steve, who dies suddenly in a multiple-vehicle accident. What begins as an ordinary bike ride with her best friend, Bella, quickly becomes the […]

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High in the Rocky Mountains by Robert John DeLuca

A daring rescue mission turns into a fight for survival, truth, and justice in this adventurous thriller. A rescue mission is supposed to end when the person being rescued is finally safe. For Marshall Morris, however, finding a missing teenager in the Rocky Mountains was only the beginning of the trouble. What started as an […]

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Just the Good Parts by Robbie Couch

The candle on the kitchen counter is shaped like a mitten and smells of pine. Clyde, a lanky business student with red hair and suspenders who has moved in upstairs that morning, has lit it and closed his eyes, and when sixteen-year-old Caspen touches his shoulder to say goodbye, the floor drops away. A breath […]

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Christmas Staycation by Meghan Quinn

The magic carpet at the sledding hill moves slowly, which is the point. Each time it hauls the sled back up the slope, Nolan Hart uses the ride to tell Taran Taylor something he knows about her. Her birthday and her star sign. The way she hates lateness because time cannot be refunded. The fact […]