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“filled with a complex cast of characters imbued with both good and evil, as well a good man who walks the thin line between.”

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“an entertaining, imaginative piece of fiction, filled with enough historical facts to make it seem it could actually be true.”

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“The Stranger Diaries is an ambitious, evocative, and thoroughly tantalizing offering from an author who is not afraid to stray beyond her comfort zone.

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“Church’s characters are strong and believable, and the plot keeps the pages turning.”

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“the action never wanes, the story never dulls. An ageless tale of vengeance, violence, corruption and justice--or injustice—The Border is an epic conclusion to an epic series . .

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“The wall means having no choices. It means a bone-crunching ordeal of loneliness, isolation, hunger, and most of all penetrating cold.”

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“Across the decades of the narrator’s life, Black Souls becomes as mysterious as a set of cave paintings or yesterday’s ‘tags’ on a building.”

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“A slow, rich novel of a distant time and a man who is ‘Othered’ in most aspects of his life.”

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“They were strong paddlers and they lay into a steady rhythm and they stuck to the center of the river where a blast from a shotgun would be less likely to kill them.”

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“This book can be read over and over, because there is always something new to see in the art, and the puns are so punny. . . .

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“unusual and often gripping novel . . .”

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“A debut novel, written with insight and empathy as well as hair-raising suspense, After the Eclipse is sure to pique the reader's interest.”

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“a fascinating and entertaining read, and a welcome addition to the world of epic fantasy.”

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“a compulsively readable psychological thriller with so many twists and turns you'll need a roadmap to keep track of where you are.”

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“Macallister’s exploration of both the public and the personal takes this novel to a higher level.”

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Famous Men Who Never Lived uses a classic science fiction trope (alternate universes) to explore the urgent question of what it means to be a refugee.

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Peter Rock does dazzling things with meta-crypto-autobiography in The Night Swimmers, playfully commingling curation and creation, and wrestling with a writer’s c

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“Real discussions about race are complex, and so is good art. Savage Conversations breaks apart the myth of the Lincolns as white saviors.

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“With her two Walter Mosley-like gifts—impeccable narrative pacing and masterful command of Los Angeles’ intricate, evolving dynamics of race and class—Nina Revoyr’s L.A.

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“Offer[s] young readers plenty of opportunity to read their own ideas into the story, flex their imagination, and explore their own fear of the unfamiliar.”

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“with lots of action and palace intrigue, the novel is a page turner.”

“This is Natt Och Dag’s first published novel, but it seems too skillful and too assured to be his first writing.

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“Forsooth, methinks this chapter book is a winner!”

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“Death Is Hard Work is a short book, but one learns more detail of the life of war than from a hundred newspaper and TV reports.

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“This is a rare coming-of-age story so richly told and wholly captivating that Czapnik may in time find herself held up and used as the example of what fine literary writing is all about.”

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