Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the p...
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The Books That Feel Most Alive to Me Right Now
The books that stay with me are not always the neatest ones. Usually they are the ones asking the hardest questions in the most human way.
Read more → Why I Trust a Book That Does Not Rush Its Questions
Some books want to prove a point quickly. I usually trust the ones willing to live with complexity a little longer.
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Holler Whispers is a smart, readable legal mystery
Holler Whispers has a clear commercial hook, but it reads with more texture than a bare-bones legal thriller.
Read more →My Expansion by Nancy Manet
Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Don’t run too fast. Don’t get your feet wet. Do what the “good” bears are doing. Never stray from...
Read more →A Second Chance by Asher Frend
Here’s what A Second Chance gets right that most coming-of-age fiction doesn’t: it shows manipulation as a process, not an event. Mikaila and Chara are best friends. Asa is the per...
Read more →Align Your Business with the Real You: Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success by Jennifer Musser
Not all self-help books are created equal. Jennifer Musser’s Align Your Business with the Real You stands out by blending memoir, strategy, and actionable exercises. Her 5C framewo...
Read more →Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank
Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village called Vereiteln Dorf. There, she b...
Read more →Universe of Lost Messages (The Charismites) by Janet Stilson
Story Summary What if your child has special powers and can get people to do almost anything? What happens if the child is abducted? Izzie and Tristan were never mere humans. They ...
Read more →Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg
Summary: Sparkling Courage: Love, Loss, and the First Champagne Queen’s Daring Legacy France, 1800s. Young widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot possesses an extraordinary gift: Le Nez, an e...
Read more →Bones of the Apostle by John Amos
Story Summary: “Thomas, I’m bored. We need some excitement.” Back from their harrowing mission in the desert to recover a stolen statue of Aphrodite, detectives Flinders Petrie and...
Read more →The Case of the Stolen Goddess by John Amos
Story Summary: Flinders smiled. “Once more into the breach, my friend.” Now famous after their previous quest to find Cleopatra’s tomb, detectives Flinders Petrie and Thomas Pettig...
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