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The Body In Zeller’s Barn by Arian Harandi

Fierce teens and found-family energy power this action-packed small-town murder mystery.  We meet Ayden the morning after a night out with his best friend Matthew. It was a big night for everyone in the sleepy small town of Rogland: the mayor’s annual town fair.  In keeping with town fair tradition, after the adults go to […]

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Jen and Gary’s Infinite (Quantum) Entanglements by Nick Gregorio

A wacky, multiverse-hopping romantic comedy about a man traversing alternate worlds to profess his love for his best friend “Every version of Gary understands the same rule: say nothing and keep her, say something and risk the universe.” What do you do when you find yourself in love with the one person you can’t seem […]

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In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde

There is something undeniably magnetic about a romance built on friction. Two people who can’t stand each other. Two people who can’t stop thinking about each other. Or two people who refuse to admit that the line between professional tension and personal desire was never as thick as they pretended. In Her Own League by […]

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The Wonderful Novella Literature Quiz

A novella is a book of fiction, shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word “novella” derives from the Italian novella meaning a short story related to true facts. Test your knowledge with our Wonderful Novella Literature Quiz! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at […]

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Mountain Home by Grace Zacaroli

Both an ambitious philosophical journey and a meditative portrait of spiritual growth amid trials and hardship Mountain Home picks up where Grace Zacaroli’s previous novel, The Carpenter and the Apprentice, leaves off. Here, an ex-soldier turned spiritual apprentice, Danat, embarks on a journey with the recently orphaned Solomon to find the boy’s paternal family. Two […]

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Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

There is something deeply unsettling about a woman who ends every YouTube episode with a cheerful wave and the words, “Good night, Mom!” while the rest of her life is disintegrating one secret at a time. That dissonance, that gap between the camera-ready smile and the rot underneath, is the beating heart of Want to […]

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How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson

Somewhere in the pages of a self-help manual for aspiring murderers, there lies either the confession of a genuine serial killer or the most elaborate hoax Scotland Yard has ever encountered. That is the premise at the burning heart of How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson, a debut novel that announces its […]

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Review: The 7 Albums of Stovepipe by Paul H. Lepp

Synopsis: From 1948 to 1982 nothing was as high mileage as a turntable. The speed limit was set at 331/3 rpms to take a spin down a highway of tunes on a ten-inch vinyl LP (Long Play) record album. The turning point 1982 when Compact Discs began to put the albums in our attics and […]

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The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence

The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence was first published in July 1926, in Harper’s Bazaar and subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lawrence’s collected short stories. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence The […]

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Kin by Tayari Jones

In Kin by Tayari Jones, two baby girls sleeping in side-by-side dresser drawers in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, grow into women whose lives diverge as sharply as a river splitting at its delta, yet whose hearts remain tangled in a knot neither time nor distance can undo. This is the kind of novel that settles into your […]