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Monthly Features – September 2026

The Confessor: A Logan Hollister Novel by Noah Christopher I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: A killer is making Los Angeles confess. The Confessor is never wrong. He has built his whole life around being sure of it. He chooses people who got away […]

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Review: The Crowned Flame: Illuminated Songs of Becoming by Aroya Wallace

Synopsis: The Crowned Flame: Illuminated Songs of Becoming What does it mean to become? Perhaps becoming is not the journey toward someone new, but the quiet return to who we have always been. The Crowned Flame: Illuminated Songs of Becoming is an illuminated Songbook of poetry, music, and art exploring ancient memory, sacred love, creative […]

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The 2026 First Novel Prize Shortlist Has Been Announced by the Center for Fiction

Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to seven books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. In early […]

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The Velvet Knife by Maureen Johnson

She has been on the mountain for about an hour. Her records and her underwear are laid out on blankets in the grass like a yard sale, because everything here is shared. Then the man in the plumed hat counts her cash bill by bill, hands back exactly what she used to pay in monthly […]

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Astarion: Baldur’s Gate 3 by T. Kingfisher

He spends the morning being merciful. A young elven magistrate hears an open-and-shut poaching case, three men who freely admit to taking deer from a noble’s estate, and the sentence for that is hanging. He gives them a year in prison instead and considers himself decent for it, then buys their defence lawyer a drink […]

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Hijacked by Alan Cohen

An exhaustive, useful study into how corporations have appropriated many aspects of the American government and how people can reclaim their power Alan Cohen is a Capitalist who believes in a government that does its utmost to help its citizens. That shouldn’t be a big ask. But this compelling book is passionately born out of […]

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The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw

Two people who have spent their adult lives being looked at drive two hours south, separately, to a county where nobody knows either of them. They park outside a diner, climb down an embankment and sit on a boulder beside a creek the road cannot see. He has brought water and a blanket. She has […]

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Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood

Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood on June 16, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads A romance author whose fictional cowboy villain suddenly appears in her living room? Okay, you’ve got my attention. Romantic Hero was such a […]

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Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros

She has been in the forest for hours, deliberately walking the wrong way. There is a pull in her chest telling her where her dragon waits, and she has spent the afternoon refusing it, because her brother is dead and she would rather not survive the day. So she steps into the open, spreads her […]

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The Last Missioner by John Paul Russo, OFM Cap.

A richly imagined coming-of-age tale that fuses science fiction, theology, and prophecy Science fiction has always been good at asking questions. What does it mean to be human? What happens when faith becomes certainty? How much freedom can an individual possess within a society built on absolute obedience? And, perhaps most importantly, what happens when […]