Month: July 2023

Winterland: A Novel
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Winterland: A Novel

As a child, Anya uses gymnastics to escape the stark, wavering darkness and cold of her remote Siberian outpost. Talented and driven, she is selected for a grueling gymnastics school and charged with becoming an honor to Russia. As the years pass, Anya’s life of competitive gymnastics takes her further and further away from her […]

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Vespertine
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Vespertine

Artemisia is a Gray Sister, working alongside fellow nuns as they prepare dead bodies for their final rest. If they fail to do so, the dead will rise again and attack the living. Artemisia was once a child who fell victim to such a spirit. But when the convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia […]

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Through the North Pole Snow
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Through the North Pole Snow

Through the North Pole is an adorable story of a tiny artic fox that finds a nice warm house at the North Pole with food and a jolly old soul. The old man slept a lot and then filled up his empty shelves with many toys which he intended to deliver to children at Christmas. […]

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Central Places: A Novel
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Central Places: A Novel

Audrey Zhou is living her dream life in New York. With a successful job and soon to marry her dashing fiancé Ben, she returns home to Illinois to introduce Ben to her parents. Upon arriving in her hometown, Audrey becomes tense, with flashbacks of her fraught high school days and strained relationship with her demanding […]

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Into the West
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Into the West

A story about the founding of Mercedes Lackey’s most well-known world, Valdemar, Into the West is about an ethical leader, Baron Kordas Valdemar, guiding his people into the wilderness and away from a tyrannical Empire. In the process, Kordas encounters exotic people, unnatural creatures, and absolute terror. Into the West is the second in a […]

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Shot Clock
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Shot Clock

The Sabres, two-time AAU National Champions, led by basketball phenom Dante Jones, are holding their annual tryouts. Recently, Dante was shot by a police officer in Oasis Springs, leaving the community to mourn. Tony aims to make the Sabres in the hope of carrying on his best friend’s legacy. Unfortunately, Tony doesn’t make the team. […]

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Kimchi, Kimchi Every Day
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Kimchi, Kimchi Every Day

A cute little girl talks about how she likes to eat kimchi every day, and she lists out the different ways she will eat her kimchi during the days of the week. Whether it us eating it on Monday as a kimchi pancake or on Thursday as a kimchi kimbap. You can have different varieties […]

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Beardstown
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Beardstown

In the early 1800s, Thomas Beard bought a plot of land in what would later become Illinois. Over two centuries later, the town he founded still exists, having withstood many of the tests which plague small towns in America, either killing them outright or draining them away piece by piece. To me, this was one […]

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