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It's Time

by Leia Menlove

“I don’t have to be happy,” realizes the hero of Pavel Kostin’s It’s Time: Writing on the Wall, a novel recently translated from Russian into English by James Rann. The story details the meanderings of an acutely introspective... Read More

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The Elements of Expression

by Lisa Romeo

This isn’t a book about grammar, punctuation, rules, or even about getting anything “right” on the page; as the author points out, there are plenty of those books around. Rather, what Plotnik is concerned about—no, make that... Read More

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Sand Dollar

by Julia Ann Charpentier

Spiked with a sensible dose of realism and spiced with a jarring dash of melodrama, Sebastian Cole’s "Sand Dollar" is a literary-quality mainstream novel that explores the meaning of love. This well-crafted book is a romantic fantasy... Read More

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Captive Dreams

by J. G. Stinson

In the early years of science fiction publishing, writers were often coaxed into publighing fix-up novels, composed of two or more short fiction works which were combined with connecting material to form a novel. For example, Gordon... Read More

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Betrayed

by Brittany Dowdle

Lil Falcon may need help with her physics homework, but when it comes to battling unseen evil forces, she gets all A’s. In Awakened, the prequel to Betrayed, Lil discovered that she is not an ordinary teenager, but a nephilim—a... Read More

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Exiled

by Alan Couture

James Stuart is in deep trouble. Though only a teenager, he shows great promise of becoming a powerful sorcerer, perhaps even the prophesied “Anointed One,” but it seems the entire wizardly community is aligned against him. Unfairly... Read More

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