By Fabian Foley Thorpe-Bowker, Publisher ISBN-13: 978-0645674637 Kindle version, file size 796 KB; © 2023 Paperback, 327 pages; © 2023 Where is Ash? He never came home, and only Bimba knows he’s missing. She doesn’t know what happened, but she has to find him. Yet how is a small dog with no bark going to…
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Pieces of Her
By Karin Slaughter William Morrow, Publisher ASIN: B074DTKCR3 Kindle version, file size 5395 KB; © 2018 Paperback, 476 pages; © 2019 Wow … this story starts out with a huge bang in the first chapter, and rarely lets up throughout the book. Andy’s helpless failure attitude is thrown shrieking to the winds when her mother’s…
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
By Glendy Vanderah © 2019, Lake Union Publishing ASIN: B07CWSPSMX Kindle version; file size 5390 KB Paperback, 333 pages. Grad student and cancer survivor Jo is isolated in a remote cabin, working on her thesis, when a young girl shows up at her place barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, claims…
Teacher Bloopers and Potty Mouth Stories
By Maxine Blake Illustrated by Jo Titman @2023 MaxineBlake.com ASIN: B0CN3CDZWR Kindle version: file size 2956 KB Paperback, 240 pages. What an interesting and fun peek behind the curtain into the world of teaching and educators! Author Maxine Blake shares some stories—hilarious, awkward, surprising—from her teaching days. Some tales come from her own experience, some…
Nonna and the Little Red Truck in Autumn
By Kathy Brandon Illustrated by Jennifer Kasitz © 2023, Munn Avenue Press ISBN: 978-1960299307 40 pages This is such a fun book for the little ones in your life! The story itself is told through the eyes of a young child. While my first reads on this Nonna story and the previous one made me…
Scribes Aflame
By Dylan West © 2023 Pickle Jar Press ASIN: B0CH5L623Y Kindle version; file size 3015 KB Paperback, 430 pages. Scribes Aflame is the second book in the Scribes trilogy, and continues the story of Mallory, Rain, and Boxer, the Scribes foretold in the Book of Books. The adventures and trials they began in book one…
Monk and Robot Books
A Psalm for the Wild-Built By Becky Chambers © 2021 TorDotCom ASIN: B08H831J18 Kindle version; file size 3476 KB Paperback, 151 pages. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy By Becky Chambers © 2022 TorDotCom ASIN: B09CNFL3W7 Kindle Version; file size 5020 KB Paperback, 152 pages It’s years after The Awakening, when robots gained sentience, and were…
The Broken Heart
By N.J. Gallegos © 2023 Winding Road Stories ASIN: B0C7LJ7XRB Kindle version; file size 1658 KB Paperback, 340 pages. Heart failure looms in Casey’s imminent future, while she awaits her turn on the transplant list for a new one. Her deadbeat husband can’t be bothered to help her manage her sociopathic 6-year-old or keep watch…
Foreigner
By C.J. Cherryh © 1994, 2004, DAW ASIN: B006JHXPDW Kindle version; file size 927 KB Five centuries after humans, lost in space and desperate for a world of their own, land on the planet of the atevi, and nearly two centuries after the War of the Landing, atevi and humans share an uneasy peace. With…
Grave Covenant
By Tobias Youngblood © 2023, Riposte Press, LLC ASIN: B0C9W7SPTV Kindle version; file size 2817 KB Ilyana is an insectile shapeshifter with a dangerous interest in humans. Ridley is an amateur boxer with a death wish. Iris is a knife-wielding nine-year-old on a mission to find her father. Separate characters, each with their own goals,…