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The Dream She Chose by Coselle Everly

The Dream She Chose by Coselle Everly

In the quiet corners of a bookstore, dreams aren’t just stories, they’re messages waiting to be understood.

Cara has a gift, subtle but undeniable: she can glimpse the threads of possibility through dreams. Every day, she shares small, meaningful messages with the customers who visit her shop, guided by intuition she doesn’t fully understand. But when a mysterious newcomer, Jace, walks into the shop, everything shifts. His presence is calm, grounding, yet impossible to ignore, and the dreams begin to grow stronger, clearer, and more urgent.

Everly, Cara’s observant friend, watches as the ordinary rhythm of the shop unravels. Dreams once small and comforting start to hint at something larger, something dangerous, and the certainty of their daily lives begins to fracture. As Cara leans into a connection with Jace, Everly senses that the boundaries between fate and choice, reality and dream, are blurring.

The Dream She Chose is a luminous tale of intuition, longing, and the subtle magic hidden in everyday life. With every turn of the page, readers are drawn into a world where dreams hold power, love feels both consuming and tender, and the line between what is real and what is possible is never quite clear.

Will Cara understand the message before it’s too late? And when the dreams intensify, will she choose the life she was shown—or the one she’s willing to live?

For readers of magical realism, gentle romance, and stories that linger in the mind long after the last page is turned, The Dream She Chose is a hauntingly beautiful journey into the unknown.

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Bring Me Into the Light by Shane Keleher

Bring Me Into the Light by Shane Keleher

Toronto, 1951. For Anna, the glass-fronted shops and bustling streetcars of postwar Toronto are merely a fresh coat of paint on a haunted house. She has spent years meticulously burying her past beneath the city’s polite rhythms, convinced that what is lost to the rubble stays there. She has survived by becoming a stranger to herself, until a chance meeting unearths the one thing she wasn’t prepared to find: her sister, Gerta, is alive.

But the girl who once skipped over Berlin cobblestones has been replaced by a woman hollowed out by the same shadows Anna tried to outrun. As the sisters reunite, the carefully constructed facade of Anna’s new life begins to crack. To find their way back to one another, they must excavate the secrets they kept to stay alive, secrets that now threaten to pull them back into the dark.

Moving between the atmospheric tension of prewar Germany and the burgeoning landscape of mid-century Toronto, Bring Me Into the Light is a visceral exploration of the archaeology of memory. It is a story of how we survive the unthinkable, and the courage it takes to finally speak the truth.

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EROS AND ORDER: LOVE THAT CREATES AND DESTROYS by Carl Parsons

EROS AND ORDER: LOVE THAT CREATES AND DESTROYS by Carl Parsons

From author Carl Parsons, winner of Penmaster Global’s best short collection of 2025 for Town and Country, comes a new collection of literary stories—Eros and Order: Love That Creates and Destroys. In this collection you’ll encounter:
• A wife who deserts her husband and young children for a life of perfect freedom, she thinks.
• A teen fashion model who plots revenge against her father for the murder of her lover.
• A Detroit factory worker who falls for a Goth girl who warns him not to.
• A Moroccan immigrant who dies in the tough streets of Napoli.
• A married couple mired in a Babel of their own making.
• A folktale about a heroic woman and the Underground Railroad in West Virginia.

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Out of Time by M. Jacqueline Murray

Out of Time by M. Jacqueline Murray

Life has a time limit. Love doesn’t.
Maddie Cole has spent seven decades living on her own terms. A trailblazing engineer who chose career over convention, she built a life she’s proud of, even if it meant leaving romance behind. At 78, she figures that chapter is closed.

Then a family weekend in Bar Harbor, Maine takes an unexpected turn. Her daughter gets called away on business, and Maddie finds herself alone at the Hope Point Lighthouse B&B with its owner, Nate Jacobs, an 83-year-old widower and former corporate lawyer who has lived his entire life by the book. Everything about him should put them at odds. Instead, long breakfasts, coastal walks, and unhurried conversation start to awaken something she had convinced herself she no longer needed.

And then comes the discovery that stops them both cold: they have been crossing paths for decades, in the same cities, the same circles, the same rooms, without ever truly meeting. Until now. With limited time ahead and something neither of them quite has words for between them, the question becomes whether this is the best possible timing or the worst.

Out of Time is the kind of love story that tends to catch readers off guard. It is quiet and funny and deeply human, with two protagonists who feel unmistakably real. Kirkus Reviews called it “an uplifting reminder that one may find love at any age,” and the book went on to win four International Firebird Book Awards, including Best Unconventional Love Story and Most Heartwarming. It was also a Finalist for the American Writing Awards in Women’s Fiction.
If you have ever wondered whether love has an expiration date, this book is a pretty convincing argument that it does not.

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Kindling of a Firebrand: Fran Sweeney and the Fight Against Boston’s Fascism, A Historical Novel by Brenda Murphy

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This vital historical novel takes Fran Sweeney from Boston’s early 20th century Irish American neighborhoods to a life of action and influence where she fights powerful forces that threaten the democratic soul of her beloved city.

During the Great Depression and the war that follows, pro-Nazi organizations flood Boston with propaganda and terror tactics. Inspired by her Dad’s example during her childhood on the Charlestown waterfront and by her experience as an office worker in corporate America, Fran becomes a skilled activist and “fearless firebrand” speaking out for social justice and democracy.

The paper she starts, the Boston City Reporter, takes on Fascist, pro-Nazi and racist elements in Boston and beyond. Her words and actions, brave and smart, win national attention for the difference they make in Boston and set an example for action throughout the country.

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Talmadge Farm by Leo Daughtry

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It’s 1957, and tobacco is king. Wealthy landowner Gordon Talmadge enjoys the lavish lifestyle he inherited but doesn’t like getting his hands dirty; he leaves that to the two sharecroppers – one white, one Black – who farm his tobacco but have bigger dreams for their own children. While Gordon takes no interest in the lives of his tenant farmers, a brutal attack between his son and the sharecropper children sets off a chain of events that leaves no one unscathed. Over the span of a decade, Gordon struggles to hold on to his family’s legacy as the old order makes way for a New South.

“Talmadge Farm” is a sweeping drama that follows three unforgettable families navigating the changing culture of North Carolina at a pivotal moment in history. A love letter to the American South, the novel is a story of resilience, hope, and family – both lost and found.

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Bankhaus

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Anulka Lorenzini runs the Wealth Management Division at Bankhaus Finsler, a discreet private bank in Zurich-where fortunes are protected, and secrets are buried. Many of her clients inhabit a shadow world of hidden, ill-gotten wealth, and Anulka has long harbored a quiet contempt for the system she serves.

Then she meets Giovanni Poggio.

Charismatic and dangerous, Giovanni recognizes the fault line beneath her polished exterior-and exploits it. He draws her into a scheme as simple as it is audacious: siphon millions from dormant accounts using a phantom client. The payoff is irresistible. The risk, unthinkable.

At first, it works. Millions disappear without a trace. But as the total climbs past €13 million, Anulka sees the truth: there is no clean way out. She shuts the operation down-only to discover that her partners have no intention of letting her walk away.

Desperate to break free, she makes a fatal choice. To repay what’s owed and buy her freedom, she launches a second, even more dangerous fraud-this time pulling in Felix Hofmaier, a compromised consultant with everything to lose.

But the deeper Anulka goes, the tighter the trap becomes. Her partners escalate their demands, their threats turning lethal. Cornered and furious, she stops playing by anyone else’s rules.

What began as quiet contempt ignites into something far darker-driving her into a ruthless game of deception, betrayal, and revenge where survival may come at the ultimate cost.

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Sworn to Collide by Maria Imbalzano

Sworn to Collide by Maria Imbalzano

After devoting eleven years of marriage to Ben, her high school sweetheart, and stepping off the corporate ladder to raise their three children, Denise is ready to seize the reins of the career she always dreamed of. But as soon as she commits to step back into the professional world, Ben drops a bombshell that disrupts everything.
Suddenly, this once rock-solid couple finds themselves in a battle over ambition, identity, and whose turn it is to shine. As personal choices draw them further and further apart, they must confront their widening rift—a threat to the love they thought was unshakeable. Can they rediscover the passion they once shared, or will their divergent paths pull them apart for good?

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Trust

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In a world where autonomy can be stolen and rewritten, Maia refuses to let exploitation have the final word. Rising from the ruins of Trust with her sons, she transforms Marrowfield into a sanctuary and codes Nevaeh Freed—a covenant that ensures tyranny collapses under its own weight. Alongside allies scarred by memory and loss, Maia discovers that renewal lies not only in safeguards but in community, as Jonah and Elijah weave resilience, art, and vision into the platform. Their innovations prove that survival can become legacy, and legacy the future, ensuring love and renewal endure beyond trauma.

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An Eternity to Burn in Hell by Justine (B.S.K.) Sanders

An Eternity to Burn in Hell by Justine (B.S.K.) Sanders

Five women who escaped a life of exploitation are being hunted one by one by a killer who believes their past sins demand blood. When the first body surfaces in a luxury Las Vegas apartment, mutilated beyond recognition, it becomes clear this is no random act of violence. Someone is sending a message. Someone who knows who these women were and what they did. As the investigation unfolds, the truth becomes unavoidable. Aphrodite’s Ladies didn’t outrun their past.

Their past has come home to kill them.

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AI Baby by Celeste Garcia

AI Baby by Celeste Garcia

Do you ever lose sleep about the coming AI apocalypse? Celeste Garcia has so she poured her anxiety into writing AI BABY, a humorous novel about a mom fighting for her daughter in the age of AI. The main character, Erica, is the tiger mom to beat all tiger moms, so when a perfect new girl arrives at her daughter Zoey’s elite Seattle prep school and threatens her college dreams, Erica embarks on an unhinged search for truth that pulls her into the heart of an AI empire and a battle for her daughter’s soul. Readers call AI BABY a “page-turner,” “laugh out loud” funny and “eerily close to our future reality.” A perfect addition to your summer reading list. FREE from 5/28-6/1.

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Memory Ranch by Marc Sercomb

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Former Western star Dusty Bob's beloved wife has been dead for twenty-five years when signs of her presence begin to reappear on his fading Arizona ranch. Soon he is holding Olivia in his arms once again, reliving scenes from his wild life and his old, forgotten movies on a nightly basis — powerfully vivid memories that last from midnight 'til sunrise. It's an all-too-human tale of broken dreams, lost love, desert magic, and the beauty and fragility of memories.

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Baker Vaughan: A Novel by Stuart Hotchkiss

Baker Vaughan: A Novel by Stuart Hotchkiss

***Literary Titan Gold Book Award***

Baker Vaughan is a man shaped by success, and undone by loss.

After heartbreak shatters his world during his second year at Yale Seminary, he runs. From grief. From faith. From himself. What follows is a carefully constructed life built on achievement and distraction, as he trades his spiritual calling for a high-powered advertising career on Madison Avenue.

For twenty-five years, Baker moves through life outwardly successful but inwardly unmoored, carrying the quiet weight of absence he has never learned to face.

Until Idaho.

In a small town with an unexpected sense of welcome, Baker begins to glimpse something he thought was gone forever: the possibility of starting again. But healing is never simple. In Boise, he meets Karl Thompson, whose presence forces him into uncomfortable questions about truth, morality, connection, and what it really means to be known.

Baker Vaughan is a deeply human novel about faith, reinvention, and the fragile courage it takes to stop running. It explores what remains when everything else falls away, and the surprising ways life offers second chances when we finally allow ourselves to receive them.

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Fallout of War: Ukraine Year Three by H. Peter Alesso

Fallout of War: Ukraine Year Three by H. Peter Alesso

The war ground into its third year and Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks now coordinated drone operations that shape battlefield outcomes across southern Ukraine.

His team, eight Ukrainian specialists and one increasingly assimilated American, has evolved beyond its original mission into something the military doesn’t quite have terminology for. They operate in gaps between established structures.

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Fallout of War: Ukraine: Year One by H. Peter Alesso

Fallout of War: Ukraine: Year One by H. Peter Alesso

A U.S. Navy submarine officer. A diplomatic post in Kyiv. And five months to prepare for the largest European war since 1945.

In the tradition of Herman Wouk’s sweeping wartime sagas, Fallout of War is a military thriller set during the opening year of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, following Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks from his September 2021 arrival as naval attaché at the American embassy in Kyiv through the first twelve months of full-scale war.

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Into The Void Volume One

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My greatest work of horror yet. 300 pages. 18 stories. Only 4.99 (or free if you have kindle unlimited). Each story so horrific the deep state attempted to bury it. Luckily for all of you, I dug it back up. From the grave, straight to my adoring fans! Ancient evils, new threats. Ghosts, ghouls, and ghasts. Goblins and changelings. Fey beasts and human monsters. Everything a horror fan could hope for, all in one place!

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The Teuta’s Child by S. G. Ullman

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Once upon a time in the Téuta, the ground shook.
The cliff fell, and boulders came tumbling down, crushing everything and everyone in their path.

The surviving villagers blamed Welo, the nightmare giant, for the disaster.

When little blind Kaikos notices mysterious spiritual activity on the ground, she must keep it a secret. The villagers will not hesitate to sacrifice Welo’s cursed granddaughter if they believe it will stop the earth from shaking.

With the fragile line between love and hate erased by fear, young Kaikos must brave the growing darkness to survive.

In the tradition of Jean M. Auel’s “Clan of the Cave Bear” and Michelle Paver’s “Wolf Brother,”
The Téuta’s Child is a gripping tale of loss and redemption set in neolithic times – perfect for all who love magic, fantasy, and ancient civilizations.

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Red Clover by Florence Osmund

Red Clover by Florence Osmund

Lee Winekoop feels like an outsider in his own family. Now twenty-six—confused and emotionally bankrupt after suffering a childhood fraught with criticism and isolation—he leaves his dysfunctional upper-class family to find his true self. Determined to cultivate a meaningful life, Lee discovers a world poles apart from the one he had left behind. But just when things start falling into place, he is made aware of an alarming family secret that causes him to question who he is and where he’s going.

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