Book Review
Disaster at Bushehr
by Leah Block
An American dentist is drawn into an investigation of a terrorist attack in Iran in the bombastic thriller "Disaster at Bushehr". When Israel is blamed for the bombing of an Iranian nuclear site, a small team of covert American...
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Timothy's Demon
by Leah Block
An ancestor’s bargain with a demon has implications for a disaffected young man in the exciting fantasy novel Timothy’s Demon. A young man blends technology with magic to fight creatures from hell and reclaim his mortal soul in...
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The Side Project
by Leah Block
A high school crush-turned-romance faces adult complications in the exciting contemporary novel "The Side Project". In Laurel Osterkamp’s romance novel "The Side Project", two reserved writers have complicated family lives that act as...
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Sanctions in Paradise
by Leah Block
The exciting political thriller "Sanctions in Paradise" works to acknowledge racism via an apartheid plot during an island-set conference. In Peter Nicholl’s novel "Sanctions in Paradise", a speechwriter attends a conference whose goal...
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Threads of Us
by Leah Block
A wounded woman is assisted in the search for the truth about her late father in the empathetic novel "Threads of Us". Christie Havey Smith weaves together four entwined perspectives in "Threads of Us", a novel about grieving a parent...
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Ugliest
by Leah Block
A sweet, anxious agender teenager comes into their own while facing new challenges in the involving novel "Ugliest". Kelly Vincent’s novel "Ugliest" is the earnest continuation of an agender Oklahoma teenager’s coming-of-age story....
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Murder in the Grand Bazaar
by Leah Block
A knowledgeable professor is thrust into a murder investigation in the information-rich novel "Murder in the Grand Bazaar". In Miles Nilsson Fowler’s novel "Murder in the Grand Bazaar", a murder involving early Christian history leads...
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Ride the Snake Road
by Leah Block
A man on the edges of a dystopian society seeks riches in the exciting novel "Ride the Snake Road". A pseudo-Western thriller set in an immersive dystopian landscape, LeRoy Wow’s novel "Ride the Snake Road" is set eleven hundred years...