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Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman
"Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman" is an intriguing novel that centers an underlauded woman pioneer in the sciences. In Caroline Fernandez’s adventure novel "Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman", best friends travel through time...
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Do You Remember Being Born?
In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is...
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Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician
In Tim Collins’s fun puzzle quest novel "Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician", a detective dog and his Watsonesque cat companion are embroiled in an epic caper involving hypnosis, a passel of animals, and a series...
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Gemja
In the science fiction universe of "Gemja", worlds of unexpected wonder and danger abound. In K. M. Messina’s imaginative interplanetary adventure novel "Gemja", a witch’s personal trajectory is changed on an unwanted planet....
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Serengotti
Set in rural Australia, Eugen Bacon’s novel "Serengotti" follows a programmer who travels to an isolated African migrant community where little is as it seems. The novel begins with Ch’anzu having a breakdown—over a drowning...
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The Couscous Chronicles
Azzedine T. Downes’s memoir "The Couscous Chronicles" moves across cultures, continents, languages, and time, embracing personal and global transformations during the 1980s and 1990s. Downes begins his story with his time in the Peace...
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Nell & the Netherbeast
In Adi Rule’s fun supernatural novel Nell and the Netherbeast, a girl works with a malodorous beast to solve a mystery at her aunt’s bed and breakfast. Twelve-year-old Nell had intended to spend her summer helping at a local shelter....
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A Heart Worth Stealing
In Joanna Barker’s beguiling romance novel "A Heart Worth Stealing", more goes missing than romantic affection. When Ginny’s father’s watch is stolen from the family estate that he left under her care, she is eager to find it. But...