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Danger in Plain Sight
"Danger in Plain Sight" is an inventive thriller whose unconventional heroine learns how to live again. Burt Weissbourd’s exhilarating thriller "Danger in Plain Sight" introduces a compelling and driven heroine. In Seattle, Callie...
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An Improbable Spy
"An Improbable Spy" is a cryptic thriller: nothing is as it seems, and no one is who they say they are. David Paul Collins’s timely historical spy novel "An Improbable Spy" has all the elements of a classic Cold War-era tale, as the...
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Coyote
"Coyote" is an entertaining, fast, and refreshing mix of murder, greed, philosophy, mystery, and woman power. Coyote: A Jessica James Mystery is the very funny yet profoundly dark second novel in Kelly Oliver’s series about the...
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Being and Becoming
This surprising and satisfying thriller blends philosophy, politics, medicine, and danger. Phalgun Prativadi’s "Being and Becoming" is an ambitious and sophisticated medical thriller with a social conscience. Arya Krish is a brilliant...
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Nothing Lasts Forever
This compelling historical novella examines Australia’s development through the story of one young man. "Nothing Lasts Forever" is an engaging historical novella by Althea Foster that imagines the life of a young Samoan warrior taken...
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Recollections and Reflections
Dzadagu writes movingly of his personal struggles and persuasively of the reasons for his decisions. Recollections and Reflections: The British Journey of One Former African Priest is the autobiographical account of Athanasio Dzadagu,...
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Gibraltar
"Gibraltar" is a semihistorical novel with a unique and provocative narrative. Gibraltar: The Conquest of Iberia is Shariq Ali Khan’s historical, sometimes fantastical, treatment of the Moorish invasion of Spain in the early eighth...
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The Wise Men of Pizzo
This gently measured tale is filled to the brim with gorgeous language. "The Wise Men of Pizzo", the first work of fiction from Francesco M. Marincola, is an unexpected little gem, a love letter to small towns forgotten in the frenetic...