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In Good Faith

by Kelli Christina
📘📘📘 Solid, Selectively Recommended

A passionate whistleblower narrative, In Good Faith exposes the personal, financial, and emotional cost of fighting workplace misconduct and systemic failure from inside a broken professional world.

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Gritty Girl

by Barbara Thomason
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A tender, character-driven island novel about a girl whose unsettling “Knowings” of others’ futures become, with the help of an old friend, a hard-won gift she learns to give in service of love, dignity, and community.

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Camping with a Killer

by Becki Willis
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A brisk, character-driven cozy mystery where an RV getaway curdles into danger, and Madison deCordova’s sharp instincts and loyal circle keep the suspense moving without losing warmth.

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Aspire

by Patty Y Raymond
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A warm, rhyming celebration of mother–daughter time, Aspire! turns everyday weekends into a vocabulary of confidence—brilliant, brave, empathetic, curious—inviting kids to dream bigger and stand taller.

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The Signal Within

by Brian Byrne-Soria
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A grounded, near-future fable of alien contact and human awakening, The Signal Within trades bullets and riots for resonance and refusal, imagining a non-violent uprising that quietly empties fear-based power of its grip.

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Love at the Eagle

by B. Alan Bourgeois
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A tender, kink-positive collection set around a queer leather bar, Love at the Eagle trades spectacle for emotional honesty, delivering character-driven love stories about consent, repair, and the hard, holy work of staying.

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Texas Tainted Dreams

by Vivian McCullough
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A historically rich and emotionally resonant Texas frontier saga, Texas Tainted Dreams traces one family’s courage, trauma, and hard-won resilience amid war, captivity, disease, and the unforgiving realities of mid-nineteenth-century life.

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CeeGee’s Gift

by Joy H Selck
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A tender, character-driven island novel about a girl whose unsettling “Knowings” of others’ futures become, with the help of an old friend, a hard-won gift she learns to give in service of love, dignity, and community.

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Cherokee Rock

by James Humphrey
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A sweeping Indigenous historical fantasy, Cherokee Rock follows a grieving Cherokee boy’s journey toward healing, resistance, and spiritual purpose amid disease, violence, and colonial expansion.

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Cherokee Reel

by James Humphrey
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A sweeping historical drama, Cherokee Reel follows Cherokee, freedmen, and mixed-heritage lives through slavery, war, political division, and survival in a changing nineteenth-century Indian Territory.

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So You Want To Be A First Lady

by Tish Barnhardt
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A candid faith-based drama, So You Want To Be A First Lady? exposes the emotional, financial, and spiritual strain behind church leadership while following one woman’s fight to preserve her voice.

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Leave It at the Door

by B. Alan Bourgeois
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

Leave It at the Door is a warm, witty four-perspective LGBTQIA+ novella about age, desire, belonging, and the assumptions people carry into a room before anyone has spoken.

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Stolen from Me

by D. Robert Robinson
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

An ambitious Cold War-era historical drama about a brilliant Black American scientist whose extraordinary mind becomes both his greatest gift and the instrument through which decades of his life are taken.

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2027: The Year of the Author

by B. Alan Bourgeois
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A thoughtful, practical celebration of authorship that looks beyond sales and status to recognize the imagination, labor, responsibility, community, and human judgment behind the books readers value.

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Y’all Write

by B. Alan Bourgeois
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

Y’all Write is an encouraging, flexible month-long writing guide that turns vague creative intentions into manageable goals, daily action, accountability, and a practical plan for continuing afterward.

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Every Delay Means a Life

by B. Alan Bourgeois
📘📘📘📘 Strongly Recommended

A quiet but relentless social novel, Every Delay Means a Life turns one veteran’s search for a safe parking space into a searing indictment of how cities weaponize delay against the people they’ve already broken.

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