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The Ultimate Guide for Bipolar Disorder, C.A. Cook

Do unpredictable and persistent mood swings have your head spinning? Is it hard to know what to expect from yourself each day? One day everything seems fine but you never know when you’ll be in the throes of deep depression or making bad choices during your manic highs. Does a “normal” life seem impossible for

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Pushing Pawns, Dima Novak

Class struggle. On the street and over the board. Urban high school kid Moses Middleton hoped that chess competition could be a ticket out of mediocrity, but everything goes pear-shaped after a disastrous tournament. That’s when he meets Viktor, a mad Russian grandmaster who agrees to coach the team by revealing the secrets of Soviet

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The Sons of Thunder, Andrew Pankratz

Jacob shifted his rifle to bear on the approaching horseman. They had thought it would be easy to kill two cowboys who fancied themselves to be tough. That was six or eight men ago. The previous deputies were gun slicks and card sharks who promptly bit the dust when they tangled with George Copley. So

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Room, Emma Donoghue

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick

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From Darkest Skies, Sam Peters

After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keona Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife’s personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind.

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The Hatching, Ezekiel Boone

Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the

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Through the Storm, Renee Allen McCoy

He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. ~Psalm 107:29 Zachary Maxwell has had his life planned out since freshman year in high school. He would be educated as an architectural engineer, drafted by the NFL, and marry the woman of his dreams. And it all happened in that order. Suddenly thrust out

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A Midsummer Night’s Murder, Maggie McChristie

A pleasant day at the lake turns ominous when Jack Dunn and his wife, Martha Healey, find a body on the beach. Circumstances surrounding the current death are similar to one that happened thirty years ago in the same location. Did someone get away with murder? Twice? As they are reluctantly drawn further into the

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Dance to Dreams, Shogo Onoe

Unlock the courage to follow your dreams and stop saying no to a better life. Having escaped from the suffocating grip of Japanese culture to pursue his dreams of being a writer, author and Japanese ex-pat Shogo Onoe continues his story in this thought-provoking autobiographical novel, recounting the rich culture and amazing people that he

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The Question, Greg Siofer

THE QUESTION NAIRB’S STORIES BOOK ONE DO SOME THINGS JUST HAPPEN? Which won a Silver Award at Literary Titan 2023. One morning, Nairb awakens to the sound of his coworker honking his horn as he arrives to pick him up for work. As he goes about his workday, he encounters mysterious situations. A bit confused,

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Bright Air Black, David Vann

In Bright Air Black, David Vann transports us to 13th century B.C. to give a nuanced and electric portrait of the life of one of ancient mythology’s most fascinating and notorious women, Medea. In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea

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Swimming Lessons, Claire Fuller

Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house

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The Witchfinder’s Sister, Beth Underdown

Essex, England, 1645. With a heavy heart, Alice Hopkins returns to the small town she grew up in. Widowed, with child, and without prospects, she is forced to find refuge at the house of her younger brother, Matthew. In the five years she has been gone, the boy she knew has become a man of

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Healing Cassiopeia, Charlie Daye

What if you lost everything you ever loved? Cassie lost everything in a single night… Her husband, her unborn child and any hope for a happy future. Welcome to Elvy – Land of the Fae and endless magic. In an attempt to pull Cassie from her downward spiral, her parents take her home, to Elvy…

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Ice Cream Under the Influence, Becky Rasmussen

A boozy ice cream drink can be a fun and delicious addition to any occasion. This book contains a collection of prepare-ahead ice cream drink recipes to make entertaining simple and easy. Each recipe is accompanied by garnish suggestions to help make your drinks look as fancy as they do in a restaurant and impress.

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Moo-La-La-Ti-Da!, Donna Boock

Ella Bella Bovine takes the bull by the horns and makes some changes around the drab farm. She dips her tail in dazzling paint and…Moo-la-la-ti-da! Most of her friends love the beautified barn and line up for makeovers, but Shania shies away. She simply isn’t fancy. When some of the other animals bully Shania, Ella

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Dream City Dreaming, Cindy Angell Keeling

A once-in-a-lifetime event. A rest-of-her-lifetime transformation. When a young widow brings her son to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, she is unaware of the odyssey of inspiration and healing that is about to begin.Junaluska Lewis is convinced that her future lies in the hands of her son, Henry, reluctant heir to the family business. To

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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman, Denis Thériault

Bilodo lives a solitary daily life, routinely completing his postal rounds every day and returning to his empty Montreal apartment. But he has found a way to break the cycle—Bilodo has taken to stealing people’s mail, steaming open the envelopes, and reading the letters inside. And so it is he comes across Ségolène’s letters. She

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Good Me, Bad Me, Ali Land

Fifteen year old Milly was raised by a serial killer: her mother. When she finally breaks away and tells the police everything about her mother’s crimes and years of abuse, she is given a new identity and placed in an affluent foster family and an exclusive private school. She wrestles with being the daughter of

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The White Raven, Carrie D. Miller

In her thirteenth life, Aven has settled into the now witchcraft-friendly Salem where she has found true happiness and friendship, maybe even love. Despite her contentment, the truth of Aven’s existence haunts her. When she dies, her Spirit is forced from the Veil to live again in the body of a stranger. Does the elusive

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