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Title: Make Love Great AgainAuthor: Brian MichelsGenre: LiteraryBook Length: NovelFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: 2025 Date Started: March 26, 2025Date finished: April 17, 2025 This story is about the relationship between Julie and Rick, a couple who met once years earlier and then lost touch. When they meet again, sparks fly, and they quickly get married.... Continue Reading →
Title: House of DetentionAuthor: Jean EndeGenre: LiteraryBook Length: 368 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: April 1, 2025 Date Started: April 4, 2025Date finished: April 10, 2025 This story is about the Rosen family, a Jewish close-knit family from Poland living in America after WWII. They lived in an upper middle-class community in the Bronx where they... Continue Reading →
Title: YankeelandAuthor: Lacy FewerGenre: Historical FictionBook Length: 303 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: March 25, 2025 Date Started: March 2, 2025Date finished: April 3, 2025 Life was hard in Ireland, with no jobs and no hope for success, so Brigid and her husband, Ben, decided to make a new life in America. Leaving their extended family... Continue Reading →
Title: Confessions (Johnny Walker Novels Book 1)Author: Ralph GriffithGenre: Detective ThrillerBook Length: 280 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: September 3, 2017 Date Started: February 26, 2025Date finished: March 1, 2025 In this gripping story, Detective Johnny Walker is assigned to a case where tracking the murderer is truly a mystery. It all started when the wrong... Continue Reading →
Title: A Madness Unmade (The Deathly Inheritance Duology Book 1)Author: E.K. Larsen-BurnettGenre: Fantasy, Young AdultBook Length: 271 PagesFormat Read: ePubYear Published: March 3, 2025 Date Started: January 22, 2025Date finished: January 29, 2025 This story is about Laurel Persephone Rumbroom, an 18-year-old who suddenly becomes orphaned when her father mysteriously dies. She grew up in... Continue Reading →
Title: TracesAuthor: Franklin J. KnightGenre: Fantasy; SpiritualBook Length: 327 PagesFormat Read: ePubYear Published: December 16, 2024 Date Started: January 10, 2025Date finished: January 19, 2025 There are three main stories in this book, and all three stories intertwine. We follow an archangel named Damiel, whose job is to guide an apprentice named Adlai toward becoming... Continue Reading →
Title: Ghosts and Gods (A Light in the House Book 3)Author: Liam JamesGenre: Fiction, Coming-of-Age, FantasyBook Length: 63 PagesFormat Read: eBookYear Published: October 26, 2024 Date Started: January 3, 2025Date finished: January 7, 2025 The third book in the A Light in the House trilogy, Ghosts and Gods takes us deeper into Joe’s life. He... Continue Reading →
Title: Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII: Tomb of the Black PharaohAuthor: Christopher MichaelGenre: Horror; Thriller; Alternate Historical FictionBook Length: 414 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: September 22, 2024 Date Started: December 16, 2024Date finished: December 31, 2024 This story is about locating a dangerous and powerful stone in Egypt before the Nazis get their hands on... Continue Reading →
Title: The Half Light (The Chronicles of Capherayna Book 3)Author: Karen MenezesGenre: Literary; Women's FictionBook Length: 254 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: July 2, 2024 Date Started: December 9, 2024Date finished: December 14, 2024 In this story, we follow the Lightbender as he spends time in a ghetto district in Dorsfield known as Crikwood. There, he... Continue Reading →
Title: Summer FrostAuthor: Blake CrouchGenre: Sci-fi; LGBTQBook Length: 85 Pages (Short Story)Format Read: eBookYear Published: September 17, 2019 Date Started: October 29, 2024Date finished: October 29, 2024 This story felt like it was a glimpse into a longer story. It’s about a game developer named Riley who created a character named Max and fell in... Continue Reading →
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