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The Color of Dreams: An Umbrian Tale
by Roberta Kaye Waldbaum Rating: ***** Waldbaum’s debut novel, The Color of Dreams , unfolds the story of Claire Brophy McPhee, an...

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Dec 28, 20243 min read


What Now? : A Collection of Short Stories
by Joyce V. Harrison Rating: **** What Now? is a nicely calibrated collection of eight stories that broadly deal with the consequences...

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Dec 14, 20243 min read


Belabour
by George Veck Rating: ***** Twenty-eight-year-old Amelia Paxton is trapped in an abusive marriage, used as a physical and psychological...

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Dec 5, 20243 min read


When We Chased the Light
by Emily Bleeker Rating: **** When We Chased the Light is the follow-up to When We Were Enemies , but it capably reads as a standalone...

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Nov 27, 20243 min read


Perestroika
by João Cerqueira Rating: ***** Set in Slavia, a fictional Eastern Bloc country, whose people are brutally oppressed under a vicious,...

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Nov 15, 20243 min read


Drifting
by PJ Thomas Rating: ***** Drifting is the third book of poems in PJ Thomas’s Water Trilogy * , although it can certainly be read as a...

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Oct 30, 20243 min read


Rakiya: Stories of Bulgaria
by Ellis Shuman Rating: ***** Rakiya is a beautifully crafted collection of a dozen character-driven short stories that effortlessly...

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Oct 7, 20242 min read


A Cat's Cradle
by Carly Rheilan Rating: ***** After serving fourteen years in prison for the murder of a little girl, Ralph Sneddon is under no...

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Sep 23, 20243 min read


The Circle's End (The Magic Circle Book Five)
by P. C. Darkcliff Rating: ***** As the empire is engulfed in a war against the Darkside and Archmage Gadram is indisposed, only Baard...

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Sep 12, 20243 min read


Sans Stability Minus Sex
by Chris Leite Rating: **** Mr. Portis Strawberry harbors dreams of becoming a famous director but instead works as a low-grade math...

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Aug 26, 20243 min read


It Was a Riot
by Daniel Hall Rating: ***** Born in Dagenham, East London in 1958, Edward “Eddy” Turner is expected to follow his father, Lenny, into...

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Aug 9, 20243 min read


Oddities
by Thurdy Rating: **** Oddities is an aptly named collection of eleven weird and quirky short stories that fall under the speculative...

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Jul 30, 20242 min read


Let Evening Come
by Yvonne Osborne Rating: ***** Trying to cope with the recent loss of her mother, Sadie Wixom is immersing herself in the rural Michigan...

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Jul 18, 20242 min read


Pacific Odyssey: The Curious Case of Lew 2.0
by Chet Nairene Rating: ***** Thirty-six-year-old tech wizard, Lew Clarke is about to ascend to god-like status at the corporate behemoth...

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Jul 1, 20243 min read


Rough Visit
by George Veck Rating: ***** Twenty-five-year-old cue hustler, Alfie “Whack a Tenner on” Fenner has exhausted the Gwynedd pool and...

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Jun 15, 20243 min read


In the Throes
by Mathias B. Freese Rating: ***** In the Throes introduces the reader to “Gruff”, a colossal, grotesquely-rendered, primitive creature...

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Jun 5, 20243 min read


Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip
by Gail Ward Olmsted Rating: ***** Olmsted’s delightful novel is inspired by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, an independent trailblazer of a...

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May 24, 20242 min read


The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror
by R. David Fulcher Rating: **** The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror is a concise collection of twenty horror shorts, some only a...

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May 15, 20243 min read


Duties and Dreams (Second Chance Series #3)
by John A. Heldt Rating: ***** Duties and Dreams, the last installment in Heldt’s Second Chance series* finds the extended family of the...

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May 8, 20243 min read


The Legend of Rachel Petersen
by J. T. Baroni Rating: *** When sports journalist Christian Kane misses out on a promotion that he assumed would be his, he is stunned...

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Apr 24, 20243 min read
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