Courtroom Complications

A phone call from a former classmate asking for help will introduce complications and changes into the trajectory of a woman’s career and life in Class Reunion by Gail Ward Olmsted. Just before a long weekend begins, attorney Lennon Gallagher receives a surprising phone call from a former law school classmate, Erin, with whom she shares a complicated past, asking for help in dealing with a domestic violence charge.

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Retrospective of August

And with that, we've now entered into the -ber months, though seems a far way from the brr enrtu. Throughout this past month, I read 9 books, which brings me to a total of 75% of my annual goal. August Release Round-Up: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett The Witch Queen by Heather Walter The Hill in the Dark Grove…

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Accumulated Attention

Following a meticulous procedure and with keen observational skills that note everything in his surroundings, a man reaches a critical decision point in his years of travel in Black Tank by Wade Prull. The RV that he’s been traveling in for the past four years was supposed to be a shared journey with his wife, Claire, who provided valuable input on its selection, but instead Gary has had the company of his memories and a procedure.

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Cosmic Complications

As a rare comet makes its way around Earth and manages to leave a path of destruction, the true impact it has gradually unfolds, changing the lives of many in Generation Comet by Lynn W. Francis. On the day that the Hicks-Cooper comet was passing, and before it fell, changing the course of their lives, Ivy was determined to bring her life to an end, while for Hugo it was simply another ordinary day of working his summer job before going home and reading comics with his niece, Samantha.

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Titles Out Today

Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki and translated by Jordan Taylor and The Whitechapel Full Moon Society by Elizabeth DeLozier are out today.

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Moony Mysteries

A young woman ventures questionably into London while it’s facing a series of brutal murders as she tries to learn the truth in her search for her missing brother in The Whitechapel Full Moon Society by Elizabeth DeLozier. Searching for her brother, Charlie, at the last location she knew him to be, a men’s boarding house known as the Whitechapel Full Moon Society, Caroline is faced with a dilapidated exterior but a well-run interior, though with no leads on her brother’s whereabouts.

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Alternate Affections

The mysterious cat-run café that appears where and when it desires, Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki and translated by Jordan Taylor explores the different forms love can take in the interconnected lives of three people. In Leo Season, when there are greater possibilities and the potential for people to be receptive to the special, helping talents of Neptune, who adopts the name Sala as one they are more comfortable with, they provide dreams to guide the customers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop that would assist them in facing their personal conflicts.

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Titles Out Today

Tapeworm by A.P. Thayer and The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty are out today.

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Home Hunger

An apparent dream home that is accompanied by a strange, rather inexplicable appetite that needs to be sated in a rather unique manner in The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty. Moving to the suburbs was meant to give Claire and her family a fresh start. While the house does present new opportunities for her husband, Tom, to show off while striving for promotion, and for her two children, Derek and Grace, to have new experiences and make new friends in a safer environment, there’s something a little strange about the house as things go missing or are oddly forgotten.

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Ravenous Rot

During an annual desert retreat with friends, there’s something strange threading its way into their frayed group and feeding upon and into their desires in Tapeworm by A.P. Thayer. As Victor has been undergoing a prolonged and uncomfortable separation from his wife, Trish, he recognizes just how much he’s been repressing his desires as his sexual fixations and frustrations rise to the surface during the annual friends’ trip in the desert town of Superstition, which he takes without Trish in tow for the first time as they can’t seem to reconcile enough to be together in front of their friends.

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Obfuscated Opportunity

In the midst of a snowstorm, the body of a murdered man sparks an investigation that proves to be impactful for the small town in Means and Motive by Andrew Oliver. Jack, the police chief for a small town in Maine has been called to the dead body of Ben, who has been found shot as a snowstorm rages around them, making him question the vehicle he saw leaving the scene.

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Titles Out Today

The Witch Queen by Heather Walter, The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson, and She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth are out today.

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Doomed Determination

Seeking answers about her mother’s past to understand what haunted her, a young woman follows her footsteps, perhaps too closely, learning of a curse afflicting her family that she may also fall victim to unless she acts in She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth. Mallory’s past is an unfortunate one filled with ghosts and haunted by the gruesome death of her mother, but wanting to learn more about what was haunting her mother, she decides to attend the same small college built upon the bones of a sanitarium, certain that she’ll find answers there.

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Digging Devotion

The uncovering of a strange stone head buried in remote Welsh farmlands ushers in unfathomable changes to sheep farmers’ formerly quiet lives in The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson. Carwyn and his wife Rhian have tended to his ancestral lands in the remote Welsh mountains for years, living a quiet life as sheep farmers; however, as the years have passed, they’ve taken their toll with increasing debts, the loss of friends to age or other causes, and the influx of English tourists disrespecting the land or purchasing houses and leaving them vacant for most of the year.

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Title Out Today

A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett is out today.

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Retrospective of July

I have yet again progressed in my chronological aging - woo. Throughout this month, I read 10 books and have now reached 66% of my annual goal. July Release Round-Up: The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen Perfect Life by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores Dominion by Jean Kwok

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Implanted Inheritance

Rival gentry families are left with one family’s son accused of murdering the daughter of the other, yet what the investigation uncovers is both mundane in motive and shocking in origin and application potential in A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett. While Ana and Din have been called to investigate a seemingly simple murder case and prove a man’s innocence in the death of a young woman, the fate of two powerful families within the Empire will impact not only their lines of succession but the livelihood of the entire Empire as the foreboding sense of tension and impending war that fills the farming region of Sapirdad threatens to plunge them into starvation.

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Reuniting Royal Rise

In the years since embracing power, both magical and ruling, there’s a fine balance to navigate, yet looming threats of the rise of the "true queen" spur action that cannot be undone in The Witch Queen by Heather Walter. Three years after releasing Malum, binding the king to a magic mirror, sending Princess Blodwyn to her aunt in the countryside to convalesce, using her huntsman Shade to obtain the magic of the coven witches, and taking control as queen, Ayleth has the kingdom under her command; yet there remains a looming fear that she’ll be discovered as a witch, threats of the rise of the true queen touted by Followers of Meira, and complicated lingering thoughts and feelings of loss over Jacquetta’s betrayal.

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Concerted Cause

Caught up in a mass shooting while coincidentally crossing paths in an airport, the loosely connected lives of a small group of people aim to usher in change through a musical project in Singing for Change by Emily Gallo. As Dutch, a musician with fame built in the ‘60s, traveled to LA for a gig and used the opportunity to catch up with old friends along the way, he became acquainted with some new friends whose lives would soon be greatly altered.

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Integrated and Influenced

Noticing some seemingly impossible patterns leads to the unraveling of a larger AI infrastructure that had been guiding daily life in The Rat Kings by Vladimir Provorov. Kate Vostok is an adept pattern analyst, able to note minute trends in global markets, so when she finds a correlation that should be statistically impossible, her curiosity is elevated, and she begins to track details back to learn what few others have or would believe.

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Ebook Edition Available Today

The Strange Courtship of Kathleen O’Dwyer by Robert Temple is available in ebook edition through Piccadilly Publishing today.

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Title Out Today

Dominion by Jean Kwok is out today.

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Mental Menace

Returning from a ghost tour, two sisters encounter something even more haunting in Shaded Grove by Oliver C. Seneca. Driving home from a ghost tour of the Ashland house, where a woman killed her three children, husband, and herself, sisters Megan and Dianne Willis suddenly brake to avoid hitting an elderly woman who appears in the middle of the road in the rainy night.

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Purloined Passions

Violently impactful life events and subsequent injustices change the course of a young woman’s life in The Day My Soul Died by Rishi Vohra. Sunaina had her life planned out with a long-term boyfriend, Paras, on track for marriage after he gets his MBA, and she has a job that brings in a steady, if low income but would keep her near her family.

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Titles Out Today

The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen and Perfect Life by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores are out today.

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Measured Mess

Dealing with the aftermath of the lives impacted after the murder of a friend, one man navigates a variety of choices made in matters of love, loyalty, and grief that will dictate more than just his future in A Moment’s Surrender by John Burt. After visiting his friend Paul Bishop, Tom Corbin is murdered in a robbery that appears to have escalated.

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Emotional Effect

Newly released from prison, a man navigates the world with the restrictions placed upon him as a registered sex offender in Reckoning: A Sex Offender Faces the Truth of His Crime by J.P. Zeeb. Having newly reentered his hometown from serving his sentence in prison, Warren is finding that life is much more difficult while on parole and as a registered sex offender.

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Retrospective of June

Summer is officially underway, and during the month of June, I've read 9 books, reaching 56% of my annual goal. June Release Round-Up: The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden The Chateau on Sunset by Natasha Lester Almost the End of the World by Mike Schlossberg Wildflower by Becky Jenkinson Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh

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Fighting Fortitude

While trying to survive, covering the needs of daily life and suppressing the rebellious fire within that marks her from the Soulless, one woman’s deal attempting to save her family might just ignite something greater in Airabeth (The Sacred Seven Series: Book 1) by Jojo Bee. As Flames, Nadia and her siblings have been defying the orderly governance of the Sacred Seven and the strongholds the Masters place within their minds, fighting against the invasion to retain control over their own thoughts.

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Title Out Today

Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh is out today.

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