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Book of the Month

The Puckford 7: Fantasy Ice Hockey Adventure

by Michael Alan Fischer

Fantasy

Time Travel Awaits! Dive into Riveting Fantasy Fiction in Captivating Full Color Art! The Puckford 7 is a Masterful Children's Tale promising thrills and enchantment on every page. PREPARE to be dazzled by the greatest hockey tale ever told about a group of friends who journey into a magical realm of fantasy, imagina ... tion and ice hockey in this masterful fully illustrated color first edition by Artist Michael Fischer. A beautiful addition to any collectors book shelf for a new generation of readers of all ages. WELCOME to Puckford Falls. A peaceful snow town where kids all dream one day of winning the Puckford Cup Trophy just like their hockey heroes. A dream soon to come true when they enter an animated world of pucks, familiar foes and ice skating robots. JOURNEY from the frozen pond to somewhere far beyond as here in this strange universe as they face their greatest team challenge of all. With the help of a mysterious new friend, can they defeat their rival opponents in overtime and return home safely with the Cup? “Michael Fischer rules! He is the only one artist I know capable of capturing the energy, the emotion and the humor of our great sport of hockey.” ~ :Bill Clement - NHL Hockey Hall Of Fame & Two-time Cup Champ Philadelphia Flyers read more

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Peeling Potatoes: Katie's Story (Rocked in the Cradle of Coal series Book 1)

by Jayne M. Booth

Historical Fiction

Northeastern Pennsylvania was the cradle of the coal industry in the early 1900s. Immigrants escaping poverty and hunger in Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and other countries were eagerly recruited by the anthracite mine barons to provide cheap labor in exchange for the promise of a better life in North America. Immigrants soon dis ... covered that the streets were not made of gold. Because they were part of a vast low-skilled labor force and did not speak English well, they faced prejudice and were ridiculed with ethnic slurs. With limited resources and a language barrier that separated them from the mainstream culture, these proud immigrants found strength in ethnic neighborhoods, societies, and their faith. They persevered with a strong work ethic, self-respect, and love for each other. The Rocked in the Cradle of Coal series is based on fact although not politically correct by today's standards. The situations and conversations are purely a product of oral tradition and the author's imagination... but they could have happened in any immigrant home at that time. BOOK 1 "Peeling Potatoes: Katie's Story" It is 1914. Katie lives with her widowed mother and four older siblings on the edge of a coal mine near the river. Her young life is about to change. She must start school one year early so Mama can work fulltime. Katie speaks Russian, but she knows hardly any English words. She's shy, she doesn't know any other children in the first grade, and she's a year younger than everyone

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Alien Awakening: An Alien Shifter Romance (Alien Wolf Tales)

by Honey Phillips

Romance

She was meant to sleep forever. When Ember Duvain’s ship explodes, her escape capsule locks her in stasis and crashes deep in Cresca’s mountains. She awakens in the arms of a brooding alien wolf shifter who trusts no one. Rykan doesn’t trust easily. Betrayal drove him from his pack, and he has no patience for ... fragile princesses who need protecting. But mountain life strips away illusion. As Rykan trains Ember to survive, he realizes the sheltered heiress is far stronger than she appears. And when she uncovers proof her own family tried to steal her empire, he is determined to remain by her side. They thought she was weak. They were wrong. A spicy scifi fairytale retelling featuring a betrayed heiress, a brooding alien wolf shifter, forced proximity, survival training, and a public claim that changes everything. read more

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WHO CARES?: A Guided Self-Help & Devotional Journal for the Seasons of Life

by Dr. Melita J. Murray-Carney

Religion & Spirituality

"Who Cares?": A Guided Self-Help & Devotional Journal for the Seasons of Life is a book that includes 9 Seasons of Life that will inspire and challenge you towards a pathway of whole health and self-care and increase your daily devotion to God. Featuring guided discussion, daily affirmations and motivational bible vers ... es, this book will equip you to navigate successfully through life’s most challenging seasons and remind you that through it all, God is by your side. read more

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Singularity Point: A Zach Axton Thriller

by Mark Hacker

Science Fiction

After a radical AI neural experiment went wrong, a monster was born. Before he was stopped, Austin burned and the global markets collapsed. Humanity’s greatest fear was that it could happen again. When life-support systems in hospitals across the nation suddenly fail, killing hundreds, the cyberattack bears the monster ... Charlie Moore’s unmistakable signature. It can mean only one thing: The monster is back—this time seemingly as a sentient ghost in the machine. Or is it another monster altogether? Miles from civilization with only a tent and a dog, Zach Axton is barely surviving. But isolation is better than watching the people he loves die. To stop the rogue genius Charlie Moore and save Austin, Axton had to become the very thing he hunted. Abandoning his team, walking away from his best friend—and the woman he loved—was the only way to protect them. Or so he thought… Axton is the only man who can understand the monsters—and one way or another, he will be rejoining his old team. A man… a self-improving sentient machine… or both? In a high-stakes race against time, Axton and his team need to figure out how to stop an enemy with unlimited intelligence and astounding abilities. Singularity Point is a pulse-pounding techno-thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Brad Taylor, and John Sandford—a story where humanity’s future hangs in the balance, and the line between man and machine has vanished forever. read more

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Journey to the Dark Galaxy

by Hannah D. State

Science Fiction

A mysterious signal from deep space. Mischief and murder at a military base. Earth’s leaders are given an ultimatum: deliver Sam Sanderson to Logom, a planet known to house a hostile AI civilization, or face interplanetary war. When Sam receives a strange letter drafting her into the Great Alliance for Interp ... lanetary Affairs as a matter of international security, she expects to get answers. But instead of receiving a warm welcome, she finds that most people under the surface are distant, cold, and have built walls of silence. While grappling with her unique power and the consequences of her actions, she learns that the organization she’s supposed to serve has a chilling past and guards a dark secret. “You better wish upon the stars they don’t send you to the Dark Galaxy.” A harrowing journey into the unknown. An uncertain future. While Earth’s scientists scramble to defend their world and the planetary alliance from the AI threat, Sam is forced on a mission to the Dark Galaxy. A place where dangers lurk, tensions run high, and things are never what they seem. But will the journey change her forever? As Sam desperately navigates a maze of lies, dark secrets, and finds herself at the heart of a dangerous journey, she discovers that it will take much more than her courage and power to save humanity. Time’s running out, and there’s no turning back now… From the award-winning author of Journey to the Hopewell Star comes the highly anticipated sequel that’s sure to be a thrill

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Fresh Eggs and Dog Beds: Living the Dream in Rural Ireland

by Nick Albert

Memoir

Nick and Lesley Albert yearn to leave the noise, stress and pollution of modern Britain and move to the countryside, where the living is good, the air sweet, with space for their dogs to run free. Suddenly out of work and soon to be homeless, they set off in search of a new life in Ireland, a country they had never visited. As ... their adventure began to unfold, not everything went according to plan. If finding their dream house was difficult, buying it seemed almost impossible. How would they cope with banks that didn’t want customers, builders who didn’t need work, or the complex issue of where to buy some chickens? read more

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Archipelago

by E. William Podojil

Science Fiction

Pierre Baptiste has everything money can buy, but he still wants more, even the impossible. After years of searching, he has finally found the secret that mankind has sought for eons. The only problem is that it’s sunken below the turquoise waters of the South Pacific Ocean. Following a tragic event, The Herb Society, along wi ... th Lukas and Taylor are unwittingly pulled into Baptiste’s twisted plan to not only find a lost continent but unlock the secrets to a precious material that is only found near an archipelago he believes to be the remainder of this sunken world. Baptiste knows this material is more precious than all the gold in the world and he has big plans for it. When The Herb Society discovers Pierre Baptiste’s nefarious agenda, they unlock a global conspiracy led by the world’s rich and powerful that would completely alter civilization to their advantage for generations to come. Now The Herb Society, Lukas, Taylor, Tory and her boyfriend, Pepe are thrust into the plot and must fight the forces of nature and evil to save mankind from an unimaginable future. But will they be able to stop Pierre and his clever friends from initiating the countdown to an apocalypse? read more

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The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn

by Frank Kelso

Historical Fiction

Nigel must choose between entering an orphanage or entering an apprenticeship on a mule train. To Nigel’s horror, Comanches slaughter Reverend John Blackthorn and his family before his father preaches one word. Nigel survives by following his mother’s instructions to hide in a hollow tree. Nigel prays for God to send help. ... Instead, Pascal LeBrun, a roaming muleteer, rides to the smoke of the burning wagons to find Nigel, who believed cooking is a woman’s work. Alone, he doesn’t even know how to cook to survive. Pascal solves that problem. Plump, lazy, and spoiled, Nigel enters an unwelcome new world–work or starve. He finds survival is the way of life on the prairie. Worse yet, English is a little used third language. Riding across the prairie in a wagon bored him. The Comanche attack terrified him. Working dawn to dark on the mule train became drudgery. Two hundred miles later, when the mule train reaches the first white settlement, Pascal gives Nigel a choice: enter an orphanage, or enter an apprenticeship on the mule train for a piddling wage. Years later, Nigel wonders if the orphanage would have been easier. read more

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Not in Love

by Ali Hazelwood

Romance

A biotech engineer and the corporate raider circling her company agree to keep things purely physical. It does not hold.

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The Friend Zone

by Abby Jimenez

Romance

A wedding planner and a marine fall for each other while she guards a secret she believes makes a future impossible.

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North in the Spring: Coming-of-Age Adventure (The Apprentice Series Book 2)

by Frank Kelso

Young Adult

No longer the whiny Nigel, he anglicizes his Cheyenne name to become Blackie Wolfe. Pascal grooms Blackie to take over the trade business, but at seventeen, can Blackie handle it? Can he convince Pascal to fire the troublesome Phillippe and make Blackie the team leader? When he leads a trade parley, it turns sour and ... Blackie is taken hostage. The Bannocks hold Blackie in trade for kegs of the forbidden gunpowder. Pascal trained him to run—it’s Blackie’s duty to escape. After breaking free, the Bannock chasing him capture an Arapaho woman and her daughter. No one came to his family’s aid in their time of need. Blackie decides to save the Arapahoe woman and daughter from the Bannocks, but in their flight, they are captured by the Absaroka. Without the black robe’s respected present, can Blackie negotiate their freedom and return to Pascal and the mule train? Blackie is forced to grow up and make decisions he avoided the first seventeen years of his life. Throughout this adventure, Blackie Wolfe matures and realizes who he is and what he must do to survive in a land where death awaits over the next hill. A fitting sequel to The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn by Frank Kelso read more

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Yours Truly

by Abby Jimenez

Romance

Two rival ER doctors begin exchanging handwritten letters and discover the person behind the reputation.

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Shopping For Christmas

by Pat Simmons

Romance

Christmas came early for entrepreneur, Brandon Johnson, when personal shopper, Imani Robinson, stood on his doorsteps with groceries that he didn’t order—his mischievous niece and nephew couldn’t resist the junk food.

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Unexpected Witness

by Penny Zeller

Thriller

If she can identify one person, she could bring down an entire crime network. Nurse Mila Casey did not expect to witness a murder in the clinic’s parking lot. Nor did she imagine seeking protection from the at-large killer would land her on a secluded ranch owned by handsome, but standoffish, Roarke Brenneman. ... > Mila finds herself in the center of ever-growing danger as the police are unable to locate the suspect. When the protection of the ranch is compromised and Mila’s location is discovered, can she, with Roarke’s aid, stay one step ahead of a crazed murderer who intends to silence her forever? read more

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Alien Huntsman: An Alien Shifter Romance (Alien Wolf Tales)

by Honey Phillips

Romance

A beauty marked for death. An alien shifter determined to protect her. Tessa pours her heart into her family’s bakery, despite the constant demands from her cruel stepmother, Lenora. But when Lenora’s jealousy turns deadly, Tessa finds herself at the mercy of Korrin, a terrifyingly attractive Vultor bounty hunter. ... Korrin neither likes nor trusts humans, but even he has his limits. Hired to make a beautiful, curvy woman disappear, he chooses to protect her instead, hiding her in the wilds of Cresca. But Tessa’s unexpected kindness and her determination to care for seven orphaned Adyani pups begin to thaw his icy heart. A poisoned betrayal from someone Tessa once trusted forces Korrin to confront his deepest fears—and his growing feelings for the passionate woman who’s turned his world upside down. Can a woman with a tender heart and an alien hunter with a guarded soul find their happily ever after? Each book in the Alien Wolf Tales series may be read as a standalone romance. These sweet and steamy tales are intended for mature readers. read more

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Infliction Point: A Zach Axton Thriller

by Mark Hacker

Mystery

A spiraling agent with unparalleled skills. A murderer with enhanced intelligence. Who is the hunter… and who is the prey? Zach Axton is in a dark place. After the brutal murder of the love of his life, the haunted FBI agent is one border collie away from cashing in his chips. But he’s grudgingly pulled back into acti ... on when a prisoner in an experimental government program designed to increase brain functioning escapes in a violent and bloody confrontation. Teaming up with his former partner and a beautiful assistant district attorney, Axton uses his specialized skills in hunting serial killers to track down the brilliant psychopath. But the secret to his success in knowing the minds of murderers could be the very thing that leads him to his own destruction… Can this skilled operative take down a man who is faster, smarter, and more dangerous before the city of Austin is destroyed? Before he is destroyed? Infliction Point is the cinematic first book in the Zach Axton thriller series. If you like flawed characters with heart, fast-paced action, and unputdownable drama, then you’ll devour Mark Hacker’s riveting adventure. Buy Infliction Point and meet your match today! read more

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Malibu Rising

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Historical Fiction

Four famous siblings throw an end-of-summer party in 1983 that burns their family secrets into the open.

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2026-03-01

Beach Read

by Emily Henry

Romance

A burned-out romance novelist and a literary fiction darling spend a summer as neighbours and dare each other to swap genres.

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2026-02-01

Book Lovers

by Emily Henry

Romance

A cut-throat literary agent keeps colliding with a brooding editor in a small town that seems determined to write them a love story.

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2025-09-01

Happy Place

by Emily Henry

Romance

A former couple pretends to still be together for one final week at the cottage where their friend group has always gathered.

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2026-06-01

Mercy (Genesis - Savage Warriors Book 3)

by Reese Knightley

Romance

Two killers. One mission. Zero mercy. They were never meant to trust each other.
Let alone want each other. Viper lives by control—command, discipline, rules that keep the world from burning down around him. Titus is chaos sharpened into a weapon—lethal, unpredictable, and allergic to authority. ... When their paths collide, it isn’t subtle.
It’s friction. It’s defiance. It’s a collision of power where neither man is willing to bend. Every glance is a challenge.
Every fight is a test.
And every step closer blurs the line between hatred and hunger. Forced into proximity and bound by a mission that doesn’t care what they want, Viper and Titus discover that the most dangerous enemy isn’t the threat closing in around them—it’s the pull they can’t outrun. Because when desire ignites between two men who refuse to yield, mercy becomes the one thing neither of them can afford. Or live without. ** Mercy is an enemies-to-lovers action romance and the third book in the Genesis Savage Warriors series. While this story stands on its own, the emotional depth and character arcs are best experienced by reading the series in order. read more

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2025-10-01

Funny Story

by Emily Henry

Romance

A jilted librarian moves in with her ex-fiance's fiancee's ex, and a fake romance becomes an unexpectedly honest one.

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2026-01-01

Bride

by Ali Hazelwood

Romance

A vampire heiress is married off to a werewolf alpha to keep a fragile peace, and the alliance turns dangerously personal.

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2026-05-01

Mama and the Alien Warrior: Treasured by the Alien

by Honey Phillips

Romance

Can a weary warrior and an abducted mother save each other? Abby Wentworth never regretted abandoning her corporate career to adopt her orphaned niece and run a maternity home. But she certainly never expected to find herself and her girls abducted by aliens who intend to sell them as breeders. When they ar ... e rescued by a massive alien and his crew, desires she has long suppressed start to surface. She finds herself unexpectedly drawn to the captain who treats both her and her daughter with unwavering devotion. Until his ship intercepts an illegal Vedeckian trader, Captain Hrebec is resigned to spending his life alone. The Cires lost their females to a plague many years ago. Now for the first time, this luscious human female has him longing for a mate and a family. But Abby has to get her girls back to Earth, and Hrebec may have one last chance to save his race. Will their duties force them apart? Or will they finally find a family of their own? Mama and the Alien Warrior is a standalone science fiction romance. This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for adults only. read more

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2026-04-01

Baby for the Alien Warrior (Treasured by the Alien Book 14)

by Honey Phillips

Romance

A warrior with nothing left to give. A woman who’s lost too much. A miracle that changes everything. Dr. Corinne Vale thought her life of quiet study ended the day she was abducted and sold across the stars. Now, she’s on the run with a traumatized teenage girl and a baby she risked everything to save. When she encoun ... ters Commander Selik, a huge Cire warrior with haunted eyes, she expects another cage. Instead she finds a hero. Selik has done his best to bury the past and the family he failed to save. He doesn’t expect the fierce, beautiful human he rescues to awaken feelings he thought long dead. But when a night of shared grief leads to a moment of passion, the impossible happens. Now Selik will risk everything for his fragile new family. Because sometimes the most powerful bonds are the ones you never saw coming. Each book in the Treasured by the Alien series can be read as a standalone romance. This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for adults only. read more

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2025-08-01

Just for the Summer

by Abby Jimenez

Romance

Two people convinced they are cursed in love agree to date each other and break up, freeing them both. Naturally, it complicates.

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2025-11-01

Daisy Jones & The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Historical Fiction

An oral history of a 1970s rock band's meteoric rise and the night they walked away at the peak of their fame.

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2025-12-01

Carrie Soto Is Back

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Historical Fiction

A retired tennis champion returns to the court at thirty-seven to defend the record that made her name.

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