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Red Horizons by James Bultema

A propulsive thriller where North Korea takes America and its allies to the precipice of global destruction Author James Bultema pits his American military forces against North Korea and its maniacal new leader bent on unleashing nuclear mayhem in the fifth installment of the Sea of Red series, Red Horizons.  At the Korean DMZ line, […]

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Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang

A summer abroad. A vocabulary list. A grandfather you barely knew. From these small things, R.F. Kuang has built a book that whispers where her earlier novels shouted, and the change in register is going to surprise readers who came to her by way of Babel‘s polemic or Yellowface‘s sharpened knives. A College Freshman, a […]

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Sacrifices (In Medias Res, 1) by S.L. Field

Inventive sci-fi with a big heart It’s the year 3430, an age where interstellar travel is routine and rebuilding a severed limb is as ordinary as resetting a bone. Humanity believes it has mastered its future, yet on the fringes, there lurks a psychological, nearly invisible enemy intent on consuming everything we’ve built.  At sixteen […]

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A Moment’s Surrender by John Burt

A riveting drama that dives deep into the intricacies of friendship and intimate relationships A Moment’s Surrender finds Paul Bishop coping with the death of his close friend, Tom Corbin. When Bishop reaches out to his late friend’s widow and child to express condolences, he soon becomes a needed source of comfort while bearing a […]

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The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

Some novels whisper. Others raise their hands and call something out of the wood. The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden does both, and the result is a quietly defiant historical fantasy that takes a real Breton girl with a real losing hand and asks what might have happened if the old stories had been true. […]

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Bad Tourists by Caro Carver

Bad Tourists by Caro Carver on June 3, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Best friends Darcy, Camilla and Kate have just landed in the Maldives for a luxury holiday. They can’t wait for ten days of scorching […]

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Visiting by Polly Walker Blakemore

Synopsis: When Polly Walker Blakemore’s mother entered hospice with dementia and depression, Blakemore realized their time together would be dwindling. A lifelong diarist, Blakemore also understood she had a chance to record the small, ordinary moments that knit a family and a home together—just as she had when her mother’s mother approached the end of […]

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The Winged Game by Sophie Kim

The Winged Game by Sophie Kim on July 2, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / Romance / Enemies to Lovers, Fiction / Romance / Fake Dating, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Romance / Sports Pages: 544 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Sophie Kim’s The Winged Game is basically what […]

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Sketch by Ros Hill

A fun fantasy about magic ink and a superhero’s fight to save the world from the evil Finger Gunman It all begins in Ancient Egypt in 450 BC. Kepri, an artist chosen by the sun god Ra to possess magic ink, sees three falcons circling overhead, then six, then more, moving in a spiritual trance. […]

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Slubber Doffers by Neil Connelly

A funny, epistolary-style narrative listening in on the citizens of a small town intentionally and unintentionally revealing too much during an uninterrupted town forum A sinkhole in a football field, the recent death of a beloved crossing guard, an elementary school renaming to erase the memory of a Nazi sympathizer. These and other local issues […]