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May 9, 2025May 8, 2025

Book Review — Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

http://www.tiawilliams.net/about Genre: YA Romance Published by: The Novl, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publish date: May 06, 2025 Number of pages: 384 pages Author’s website: https://www.tiawilliams.net/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Scorching-hot summer. Scorching-hot chemistry. Two teens can't forget they're just friends in this sweet, funny, electrifying romance from New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams. MEET AUDRE. …

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April 29, 2025

Book Review — Not Safe for Work Nisha J. Tuli

Genre: Romance Published by: Forever Publish date: May 20, 2025 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://www.nishajtuli.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Two workplace enemies find themselves in close proximity on a tropical company retreat that challenges their assumptions--and just might make them to fall for each other--in this romcom by a by a …

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April 28, 2025

Book Review — Serial Killer Games By Kate Posey

Genre: Thriller, Romance Published by: Berkley Publish date: April 29, 2025 Number of pages: 384 pages Author’s website: https://www.kateposey.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally? Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold …

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April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

Book Review — The Influencers By Anna-Marie McLemore

Genre: Fiction, Mystery Published by: The Dial Press Publish date: April 15, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: http://author.annamariemclemore.com/p/welcome.html Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous. What do you really know about the people you’ve …

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April 16, 2025

Book Review — Restaurant Kid by A Memoir of Family and Belonging by Rachel Phan

Lula King Photo & Film Genre: Memoir Published by: Pegasus Books Publish date: April 1, 2025 Number of pages: pages Author’s website: https://www.rachelphan.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A warm and poignant narrative about finding one’s self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter’s attempts to connect with parents …

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March 25, 2025

Book Review — Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan

Genre: Romance Published by: Forever, Grand Central Publishing Publish date: May 13, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: https://kennedyryanwrites.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry's rarefied air. Your vision board? …

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March 19, 2025April 22, 2025

Book Review — The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

https://www.maikaandmaritza.com/ Genre: YA Fiction Horror Published by: Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Publish date: 04/22/2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://www.maikaandmaritza.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Just add lemon, garlic, and a dash of the one percent.This smart, biting novel explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie …

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March 18, 2025March 19, 2025

Book Review — Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

Genre: Thriller, LGBTQIA+ Published by: William Morrow Publish date: 18 March 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s website: https://www.hannahdeitch.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives—an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion—an …

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March 17, 2025

Book Review — The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction Published by: Saga Press Publish date: Mar 18, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: https://www.demontheory.net/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the …

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March 14, 2025

Book Review — Martyr! A Novel by Kaveh Akbar

Author Photo By Beowulf Sheehan Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: January 23, 2024 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://kavehakbar.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided …

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