Book Review
Beard
Full of empathy, humor, and love, Kelly Foster Lundquist’s memoir "Beard" details the trajectory of her marriage to a gay man. When Lundquist and Devin first met as counselors at a Christian summer camp, their connection was immediate....
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A Complete Fiction
In R.L. Maizes’s novel "A Complete Fiction", two authors are caught in a media frenzy when one accuses the other of plagiarism. As P.J. receives rejection notices for her latest novel, she reads online that another author who’s an...
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Fall of the Fireflies
Twin sisters embark on a mission to save their father’s soul in Guadalupe García McCall’s fantasy novel "Fall of the Fireflies". When their father is injured in a mysterious attack, Delia and Velia set out to find the evil spirit...
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Shadow of the Bridge
Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee’s true crime book delves into the Delphi murders, documenting the case from the day of the crime all the way to the conviction of the killer. When teenagers Libby and Abby went missing on local trails,...
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High Desert Blood
"High Desert Blood" covers the 1980 New Mexico prison riot and two brothers with the unfortunate luck of getting caught in the middle. After a failed arson attempt in service of his father’s insurance fraud scheme, Gary Williams...
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Broken Butterfly
Narrated with raw emotion, the memoir "Broken Butterfly" includes keen descriptions of maternal anxiety and feelings of helplessness in the face of a daughter’s abuse and addiction. Wanda Gray’s emotive memoir "Broken Butterfly" is...
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The Phoenix
A distrusting teenager acclimates to a new life—and to supernatural realities—in the surprising novel "The Phoenix". In Eric Van Allen’s supernatural novel "The Phoenix", a teenager and her siblings navigate an unstable home life....
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Truth Cursed
In Angie Dickinson’s fantasy novel "Truth Cursed", a girl on a mission of vengeance uncovers deep secrets about her country. Due to a curse inflicted by her aunts when she was a child, Cressida is unable to lie. Her curse poses a new...
