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The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 1 by Sophia Lambton

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Zoomers vs Boomers by Sawyer Black

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They’re live-streaming for their lives.

When the influencers and live-streamers of Jackson High are selected as the winner of the Operation Gen Z contest, Craig Boucher and his friends can’t believe their luck. Sure, it’s a little awkward that Craig’s ex is on the team – and so is the former best friend who abandoned him for the cool crowd freshman year. But at least Craig’s got his BFF to lean on. And his hundreds of thousands of followers, of course.

The Zoomers think they’ve been chosen to compete in a secret competition to win a million-dollar scholarship. But when they get to the site – the rundown building that used to be the Oakridge Academy, an infamous school shut down after rumors of torture and brainwashing – they discover that they’re pawns in a brutal game of survival.

As they search for a way out of the booby-trapped campus, Craig and his friends are hunted by three fanatical Boomers determined to prove that Generation Z embodies everything that’s wrong with the modern world.
Millions tune in as the live stream goes viral, and the cameras transmit every move to the enemy. As the streamers begin to turn on each other in their attempts to survive, Craig doesn’t know who to trust or how to keep his friends alive.

Can these Zoomers come together to defeat the worst of the Greatest Generation? Or will they die before uncovering the truth behind this vicious contest?

Zoomers vs Boomers is an intense new stand-alone slasher-horror novel by Sawyer Black. Fans of Squid Game and The Hunt will be thrilled to death by Zoomers vs Boomers.

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The Model Spy by Maryka Biaggio

The Model Spy by Maryka Biaggio

THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Largely unknown today, Toto was arguably the first woman to spy for the British Intelligence Service. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the way. As the war entered its final stages, she faced off against the most brutal of forces—Germany’s Intelligence Service, the Abwehr.

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The Adventures of Streaky the Comet: Book Three, Streaky and the Space Spiders

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Streaky the Comet is back for more adventures, shining his wisdom, compassion, and positive nature in a new corner of the universe and weaving new friendships and alliances with his friendly nature. A ride through a wormhole lands Streaky in the realm of the Antennae Galaxy – and giant space spiders! Streaky shows the true meaning of friendship and loyalty when he helps to protect his new eight-legged friend Andy from a large, mean spider. Streaky and Andy also team up with a cluster of dragonflies to save a dragonfly damsel named Sheena from a bully spider named Bolt. Shannon weaves an exciting, enchanting, and uplifting comet tale in Streaky the Comet, Book 3. You won’t be able to put the book down until you finish reading the last page

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My Beautiful Dangerous by Laila Amlani

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“An expertly woven tale of dark romance, tragedy, humor, and suspense.” – Jude McLean, Author

“This book is amazing! I was hooked until the end.” – Jade West, USA Today Bestselling Author

Every sin comes with a price.

I ran away when I was a kid.
Before my family could break me.
Back when I thought I could still be saved.

Now I lie to everyone about who I am.
I lie to myself about the things I’ve done.
My new identity protects me.
But my secrets demand a lonely life.
No man is worth the risk.

Until Chase Hale…

He makes me forget that I’m unwanted.
He makes me forget what I deserve.
He makes me vulnerable.
He makes me weak.

And that’s what makes him Dangerous.

But when he starts making me believe I might be worth saving, that could be the most Dangerous of all.

Because every sin comes with a price, and when my family comes to collect, there will be nothing in this world left to save me.

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A Hundred Silent Ways: A Novel by Mari Jojie

About Featured Book: A Hundred Silent Ways: A Novel by Mari Jojie

How do you trust and let yourself be comforted by the idea that the sun and the moon give out equal brilliance?

On the brink of a crumbling marriage, Kate Pineda-McDowell runs away from the only life she has ever known—straight into the heart of the Philippines where her estranged father lives. As she waits for her connecting flight from Tokyo to Manila, she meets Liam Walker, whose disquieting stares express deeper things than his reluctant words. Unbeknownst to both, their chance meeting circles back to a closely linked past that holds little hope for new beginnings.

Shortly after arriving in Manila, Kate finds herself drawn to seek out Liam. In a span of a few magical days, what began as a spark ignites into an electric affair that compels Liam to let someone into his silent world while Kate confronts her heartbreaking sorrows. But falling for each other means opening old wounds and revealing their most intimate yearnings.

Emotionally gripping and endearingly hopeful, A Hundred Silent Ways examines the many different paths people take to obtain a second chance at happiness while asking the most heartrending question of all: How much are we willing to endure to keep love alive?

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Double-Edged Sword: A Novel of Reconstruction by J.D.R. Hawkins

Double-Edged Sword: A Novel of Reconstruction by J.D.R. Hawkins

The Civil War has ended. Confederate cavalryman, David Summers, returns home to Alabama, taking his new wife, Anna, with him. Upon arrival, he understands how much the war has changed him and has scarred his homeland. Faced with challenges of transition, he learns how to navigate his new world, along with the pain and trauma of his past. He is also forced to confront his foes, including Stephen Montgomery. Their hatred for one another inevitably boils over into a fierce confrontation, whereby David is arrested. Will the jury believe his side of the story, even though he is an ex-Confederate? Or will he be hung for his crime?

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Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories by K.

Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories by K.

Is love the most revolutionary of all acts?

In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables to sci-fi thrillers, starring teens and drifting husbands, futuristic automatons and talking dogs, gardeners and gatekeepers, a blind girl, a young father, and many more.

In “Calamity Jane,” see love through the eyes of teenage boys obsessed with the calamitous girl of the title; revisit the famous Greek love story in “Orpheus and Eurydice”; Dan’s mechanical automaton seems to be his truest friend in the harshly conformist world of “Automatonomatopoeia”; a Crimean revolutionary gets waylaid at a mysterious gate in “The Invitation”; on a construction site in Yugoslavia, a young man tries to come to grips with unconventional fatherhood in “Vikings”; and in “The Conversation”, a blind woman manages her relationship with a hectoring mother while finding other types of love.

These are just a few of the tales in Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories. Anyone interested in the struggle against stifling societal powers and the potency of love will see some of themselves in these pages. By turns exciting, meditative, and funny, these enjoyable, thought-provoking stories will linger long after the book is closed.

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Chasing Byron by Jeb Stewart Harrison

Chasing Byron by Jeb Stewart Harrison

1945: a nation at war and a family in tatters. It’s springtime in the Jim Crow south, and young polio survivor Wyatt Bowman has been given a divine assignation, delivered through the voice of his deceased brother, to snap Byron Nelson’s famous PGA tournament winning streak. But when the local redneck judge attempts to frame an innocent black man for the rape of Wyatt’s adolescent cousin, the Bowman family, led by their obstinate, blind matriarch, “Boots,” decides to fight for justice. The real rapist, the crazy swamp rat cousin, is roaming the bayous with a pet copperhead draped around his neck, and it’s only a matter of time before the truth is, at last, revealed. Chasing Byron is Southern literary gumbo, served up with an unlikely mix of ingredients: golf, the war in Japan, the fading aristocracy, racial injustice, a tree frog named FDR, Jr., and a young man grappling with an unfamiliar, disturbing bout of cosmic interference.

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HEIMAT by Paul Marzell

HEIMAT by Paul Marzell

Matthias Schmidt left his Heimat, Neisse, Germany in 1929 for a better future in the US and leave Germany’s post-World War One economy and humiliation of defeat behind. Traveling with him is his friend, Josef Turner who is leaving on a whim. Before they get to their ship, the TS Bremen, in Bremerhaven, they forged a friendship with two other travelers from Neisse: Edo a Jew who left to prepare for his parents and sister to follow; Feliks, a teenage ethnic Polish farm boy because his family could not support him, and an American diplomat they saved from the tracks in Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof. The result is a friendship that sustained them through broken promises, misconceptions of the American dream, the Depression, Prohibition, assimilation into American culture, and World War Two.
Letters from family and others urged Matthias to return to Germany as the Nazi regime improved Germany’s economy and raised its national pride. But the war severed contact with his family for five years and sent him and his friends on separate paths. To a shipyard, building ships to carry the means of destruction to Germany and their Heimat. Into the US Army to fight in the Pacific, and later to join resistance fighters in Poland. Into Germany’s Wehrmacht to invade France and Russia and fight Americans in the Battle of the Bulge. And the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

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Whelm

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Rich and beautiful Audra Filigree has the so-called perfect boyfriend and is sailing through life, living the North American dream. But when that false veil of perfection crumbles, her whole world falls apart in a heartbeat. Despite her privilege, her life no longer feels right and she dissolves into a full-fledged panic attack. Not knowing what else to do, she starts walking with no clear destination in mind. Battling mounting anxiety and unrealized depression, she continues walking in a journey of self-discovery and in rebellion against her overbearing father and the life she begins to realize was never what she wanted for herself. Whelm is an important story about the reality of struggling with mental health challenges, learning what true love feels like, who our true friends are and what’s truly important to us.

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The Beasts of Success

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In this dog-eat-dog world, which a system revolving around money created, three friends find themselves getting nowhere in their careers despite their education and work skills. They decide to make their own rules to the game of life and play dirty to get ahead. Each of them concoct schemes to sabotage colleagues and clear the path for their swift advancement.
Through a journey of deception and personal discovery, they find that life at the top isn’t what they imagined it would be. All the while, they’re not aware that they’re part of a much larger game being played by a world-controlling group that doesn’t have their best interests in mind. And with a physical manifestation of karma on the loose, their futures are uncertain.
In this fast-paced, entertaining ride, readers will confront a cache of arcane truth and thought-provoking situations by means of satire, dark humor, and zany humor. The Beasts of Success lifts the veil on a hidden world of which few are aware. How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go?

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The Model Spy

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My Canvas Bag by Lucas Kinkaid

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Mark is a young man born into a bad family situation. He lies about the reality of his life to hide his shame. Mark escapes from the chaos of his home by spending time in some nearby woods. He keeps a canvas bag hidden close to his house. It contains blankets, a flashlight, cans of food, a transistor radio, things to read, and more. The canvas bag makes his time in the woods possible.

Mark’s life is a constant struggle to avoid the judgments of his family being placed on him. He feels helpless against his parent’s unstable relationship constantly bringing him into embarrassing situations.

As he gets older, Mark’s anger and resentment toward his family increases. He makes some bad decisions. There comes a time when he must choose a path for his life. This begins Mark’s tremendous struggle to separate himself from the dysfunction of his family and his past mistakes.

Mark discovers his ability to write and then discovers himself.

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“Paris, a novel” by Rupert Rushbrooke

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Miles has left his public school fractionally on the early side, after an incident involving a bottle of Green Chartreuse, or at least what was left of it, and is now determined to leave home and make his way in the world of 1980s London.

But his real ambition is to play blues piano in the 1960s or earlier, in Paris, or Chicago or Berlin, and the fulfilment of this unlikely, if poetic, dream is further complicated by other factors that are currently hidden deep within him, and of which he has no idea as the story begins.

“Rupert Rushbrooke has given us a lively, witty and always superbly engrossing latter-day pilgrim’s progress to enjoy in Paris, and I thoroughly recommend it.” Christopher Sandford, best-selling biographer.

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Ask Not by Mary M. Schmidt

Ask Not by Mary M. Schmidt

To Katie, her love for John F. Kennedy was her whole world, even though he never heard of her. Anyone who harmed him would have to answer to Katie. It would not be pleasant. And when someone does, her revenge would consume her spirit and drive her in madness to Dallas. Will she succeed in destroying Oswald? Ask Not.

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TO DANCE OR NOT TO DANCE by L.R.Johnson

TO DANCE OR NOT TO DANCE by L.R.Johnson

This fictional-biographical novel/eventual screenplay, is based upon a male, Muslin classic dancer called, Haleem Khan. In the novel, the main character, similar to the real person, was born to be an entertainer. At a very early age the main character was attracted to an Indian classical dance form called, Kuchipudi. Through his early school years up to adulthood he was confronted with differing forms of discrimination, prejudice, and attacks, based upon ignorance pertaining to his ambition to become a classical Kuchipudi dancer because many male dancers perform dressed as females. One can imagine the insults and discrimination directed at the character, especially being a Muslim in a Hindu majority part of India. I managed to form a novel/screenplay utilizing every emotion possible i.e., love, hate, anguish, fear, joyfulness, and quite common in India, paternal pressure, or even rejection, when the male child does not agree with his father’s subjective ambitions. This causes many upsets and family disruption.
The story will hopefully, make people laugh, cry, feel deep anger and, for those who regard men being attracted to effeminate art forms, or prejudice against peace-loving Muslims; to look in the mirror and rethink. It matters not from which ethnic/religious background we are born into, sexual preference, or the colour of one’s skin, we all remain human beings.
This pro-active story, built around a real person, is an invaluable insight for those who prefer to discriminate before understanding and accepting that humans are just one huge melting-pot of diverse emotions, colors, beliefs, and sexual preferences. It will entertain the reader whilst giving the reader a sense of affinity to those who exist in such minorities. Especially towards those who are bullied and terrorized for their diversities, are forced to hide their true identities, but still manage to put smiles on our faces, entertain us, and prove to us through diverse forms of creative art, how wrong we all are to discriminate against those who are slightly different.
L.R.Johnson

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Picasso’s Motorcycle by Marc Sercomb

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France, 1940.
An unexpected gift of an old motorcycle with a tragically romantic past hurls a young orphan into the thick of things as war breaks out and his life changes forever. Half-French/half-German Daniel must find a way to survive in a world that mercy seems to have abandoned. This book transports the reader to Nazi-occupied France, where Daniel unwittingly and unexpectedly finds himself working for the Resistance, and ultimately to the Russian Front in a twist of fate so startling that no one can see it coming. In turn quirky, heartwarming, beguiling and uncompromising, author Marc Sercomb weaves together many moods and colors to tell young Daniel’s story. Beyond engaging, Picasso’s Motorcycle has been hailed as a genuine “page-turner” by those who have so far encountered it.

If you like “The Book Thief” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” you’ll love this book!

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The Model Spy

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