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Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews

Mary Helen Dunagin spent decades collecting Lladró figurines and quietly stashing twenty-dollar bills in a Chock Full O’Nuts coffee can. After her funeral in Savannah, her two estranged daughters discover she also gave away her life savings to a slick televangelist named Brother Jerome and mortgaged the family house to do it. What she left […]

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Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin on August 16, 2022 Genres: Fiction / Crime, Fiction / General, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage, Fiction / Thrillers / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 352 Format: eBook Buy on Amazon […]

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Review: County Road 2400: A Midwest Noir by Sal Nudo

Synopsis: One night of “mailbox metal” was supposed to be a reset. Instead, it became a life sentence. Illinois, 1998. Tommy Cancio and Todd Wells are fueled by cheap beer, jagged lines of cocaine, and the midnight fog of Champaign County. The mission is simple: a high-speed pass and the satisfying ping of a baseball bat against […]

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The Children by Melissa Albert

Some books grow teeth as you read them. The Children by Melissa Albert is one of those books, a Gothic-tinged literary horror about siblings whose mother turned their childhood into a publishing empire, and the bill that comes due years after she died in the fire that should have killed them too. This is Albert’s […]

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Verotchka by Anton Chekhov

Originally published in 1887, Verotchka by Anton Chekhov tells the tale of Ognev, who reminisces about a day in his past when he let his love, Vera Gavrilovna, slip away. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Verotchka by Anton Chekhov Verotchka by Anton Chekhov […]

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8 Creative Writing Hacks to Leapfrog Your Next Hurdle

Writing is an act of love. You wake up early.  You stay up late.  You rack your tired brain for ingenious plot ideas and beautiful sentences while you’re at bus stops, at work, in the shower. You bang your head against your writing desk when the sentences don’t come easy. Writing good books is supposed to be […]

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Seward’s Folly (The Aleutian Voyage) by Lou Marich

Of Frozen Monsters and Men: A captivating fight against the supernatural, the wilderness, and the doubt of men Greed is known as a cardinal sin—and for a good reason. A reason Jack Calsin knows better than anyone.  As the sole survivor of an ill-fated voyage to the mysterious land now known as Alaska, Jack is […]

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Bound By the Invisible Red Thread (Two Hearts Within One Soul, 2) by MauriuS Muze’

A lyrical, lovely, and unconventional 50+ romance MauriuS Muze’s Bound By The Invisible Red Thread, the second volume in theTwo Hearts Within One Soul series, is a novel that wears its heart on its sleeve. From the opening dedication—“When your soul calls for you to rise, ‘YOU RISE.’”—it is clear that, like the preceding volume, […]

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Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman

Some novels arrive with such quiet authority that you find yourself reading slower than usual, not because the prose is difficult but because the sentences ask to be sat with. Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman is one of those novels. Published by The Dial Press, this is Feldman’s first full-length work of fiction, and it […]

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House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City #2) by Sarah J Maas

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas on February 15, 2022 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / General, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Romance / General Pages: 768 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back […]