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4.5-STAR REVIEW: LIBERTYLAND by Peter Sacks

Thriller/Suspense Amy Wilson - 8 May 2024

Publication Date: February 28, 2024 During a passionate romance with Garrick Cripps, Suzanne Dreyfus wrote The Liberation Manifesto, a wicked satire of right-wing libertarian philosophy. However, Garrick took Suzanne's parody seriously and now, many years...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: SONG OF THE SAMURAI by C.A. Parker

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 8 May 2024

Publication Date: May 7, 2024 Japan, 1745, is a land under the iron grip of the Tokugawa shoguns. Roads are monitored, dissent stifled, and order maintained through blackmail and an extensive network of...

5-STAR REVIEW: COLOSSAL WORDS FOR KIDS by Colette Hiller

Children/Family Sandy Saucier - 7 May 2024

Publication Date: May 7, 2024 Boost your child’s growing vocabulary with 75 hilariously illustrated poems from Colette Hiller, author of the critically acclaimed kids’ poetry book The B on Your Thumb. Each poem in this...

5-STAR REVIEW: DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG by Eve J. Chung

Biography/Memoir Amy Wilson - 7 May 2024

Publication Date: May 7, 2024 A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based...

5-STAR REVIEW: HELL IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS by Brittany Means

Biography/Memoir Amy Wilson - 7 May 2024

Publication Date: October 3, 2023 Brittany Means’s childhood was a blur of highways and traumas that collapsed any effort to track time. Riding shotgun as her mother struggled to escape abusive relationships, Brittany...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE FIVE YEAR LIE by Sarina Bowen

Psychological Thriller Amy Wilson - 6 May 2024

Publication Date: May 7, 2024 “I devoured this book in one day, and I guarantee you will too.”cJulie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell “An...

5-STAR REVIEW: BLINDSPOT by Maggie Smith

Legal Thriller Amy Wilson - 6 May 2024

Publication Date: May 21, 2024 From the author of the award-winning Truth and Other Lies comes a gripping suspense novel about an ambitious prosecutor on the hunt for her sadistic stalker . . . only...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE SUMMER SWAP by Sarah Morgan

Women's Fiction JoAnne - 6 May 2024

Publication Date: May 7, 2024 "The perfect summer novel—sharp, smart and so much fun!" —Viola Shipman, USA TODAY bestselling author, on The Island Villa Cecilia Lapthorne always vowed she’d never go back to Dune Cottage....

4.5-STAR REVIEW: HIDDEN ROOMS by Kate Michaelson

Crime Thriller Amy Wilson - 3 May 2024

Publication Date: April 30, 2024 When murder hits home. Long distance runner Riley has been fighting various bewildering symptoms for months, from vertigo to fainting spells. Worse, her doctors can’t tell her what’s wrong,...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE SONG OF SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN by Ann H. Gabhart

Historical Romance Amy Wilson - 3 May 2024

Publication Date: May 7, 2024 While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from...

4-STAR REVIEW: SECRETS AND SCANDALS by Piper Glendale

Cozy Mystery JoAnne - 2 May 2024

The Gilman Gazette Cozy Mystery: Book 1 Publication Date: May 17, 2022 Emily Delaney, a reporter for one of Hollywood’s hottest gossip magazines, has her world turned upside down when her former journalism mentor...

5-STAR REVIEW: KNIFE RIVER by Baron Birtcher

Crime Thriller Amy Wilson - 2 May 2024

The Sheriff Ty Dawson Crime Thriller Series Publication Date: April 23, 2024 A sheriff fighting to keep the peace in 1970s Oregon faces a shocking secret from his town’s past, in this crime...