Book Review
Sand Pail City
by Jill Allen
Trouble lurks beneath the perfect-looking shiny facade of a beachfront Florida community in Daniel Printz’s new novel, "Sand Pail City". Once a prosperous fishing village for the locals, Sand Pail City is populated with old-timers who...
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How I Became the Most Hated Man in America
by Jill Allen
In the gritty debut from Xavier Richard Wright, How I Became the Most Hated Man in America: Prelude to The Most Hated Man in America, the author recounts the highs and lows of his childhood and adolescence living in the housing projects...
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The Silver Mist
by Jill Allen
From award-winning Irish author Martin Treanor comes a poignant, lyrical debut novel, The Silver Mist. Like his protagonist Eve, the author grew up in Northern Ireland in the 1970’s. On July 21, 1972, Bloody Friday, bombs explode in...
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A Touch of Immortality
by Jill Allen
As the lone Romany, a girl of Gypsy heritage, in her small New England high school, Nadya CooperSmith must contend with her paranormal abilities and being bullied because of her ethnicity. While she possesses a cadre of loyal friends who...
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Verland
by Jill Allen
Following the death of her beloved mother, true-crime author Elle Bramasol struggles to make meaning of her life. Instead, she gets pulled into a deep and deadly web when domineering Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman calls upon her from...
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The Existence
by Jill Allen
When Chris attempts to intervene in an attack on a homeless man, his life changes forever. The ugly assailant calls Chris “Slayer” and leaps away with the body into the night. While Chris struggles to convince himself and others that...
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The Golden Handle
by Jill Allen
Josh Berman’s bleak debut novel, "The Golden Handle", follows embittered seventeen-year-old Wendy as she searches for “somewhere golden,” a place with genuine love far away from her current harsh reality. Wendy’s anger stems from...
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Jaga Na Kala
by Jill Allen
In common parlance, when “the wolf is at the door,” one can expect death and destruction. But when a wolf comes to the cabin of an orphaned sixteen-year-old in the Canadian wilderness, the predator gives Ruth, our heroic protagonist,...