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Small-town secrets run deep in 1980s Glenmere, Saskatchewan. How long will they stay buried? Lisa Adair’s The Cache Box: The Glenmere Box Mysteries is the third installment in a compelling mystery series set in the quaint town of Glenmere, Saskatche...
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What does it take to survive a system built to break you? JC Kors’s Bracing for Impact is a gripping debut that explores the correctional system with unyielding honesty about its shortcomings. Drawing from over thirty years of personal experience wor...
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How many versions of yourself can you become before one of them catches up to you? Laura Frost’s Seeking Sasha is a thrilling debut that blends psychological suspense with emotional depth, offering a fresh take on the familiar cop-and-runaway dynamic...
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Set against the backdrop of communist-era Romania, Radu Guiaşu’s The Faraway Mountains captures the uneasy tension of growing up in a world where control is an illusion. In the 1980s, four childhood friends—Alex, Gabriel, Dan, and Victor—find themsel...
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Wholly original and entertaining, Augusta de Rooter’s Still Life of a Salesman is unlike any book you’ve read before. He’s honest, bitter, sarcastic, unapologetic, and . . . he’s been diagnosed as brain dead. Meet Ted: the protagonist in Still Life...
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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.” This haunting epigraph begins author and psychologist Sara Aharon’s My Father’s Shadow: Uncovering the Stories Between the Lines, in which she attempts to understand her father and the complex ev...
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