About Aliou: A Novel of the Backway by Eric Reese:

In desperate times, Africans migrating to Europe is life or death…

Local soccer favorite “Aliou Messi” is the portrait of talent…but this, alone, may not be enough. The Arab Spring revolution has ushered in a dark age for migrants seeking to leave, and Aliou’s motherland is rocked by poverty. The chances of emigration are slim and every peril borders every path. Diaspora could crush much more than dreams of gaming glory.

When his father passes away, Aliou is left to carry the family–a burden that makes dropping out of school an increasingly serious consideration. Aliou too must weigh a pressing marriage engagement. Pursuing ones’ sustenance means risking it all–including at the expense of others.There does exist a bastion of order, but getting there is the dilemma.

Known to fellow Gambians as ‘The Backway’, a daunting trek to Europe may represent Aliou’s only hope.

Can this teen, but yesterday a boy, lead those he loves to financial security? Barely could a crossroads represent more inner-strife.

A touching tale of African fiction…

A treatise on the human condition…

Eric Reese outdoes himself–a master of his craft.

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About Homegirl Ain’t Gonna Make It: An African American Murder Mystery by Eric Reese:

After her first day working in Boston, this young black woman is being charged with killing her boss…

Gabrielle Muhammad grew up in a lower-class neighborhood in New York City. She finished her degree at an Ivy League school and is looking to start paying off those college loans. A promising career opportunity landed on her lap but two-hundred miles away. This young African American woman is willing to take the gamble to jumpstart her career.

Was it a blessing in disguise or was it…

White privilege in the office is testing her perseverance. Now, this black woman will have her hands full by day’s end over with this bizarre accusation.

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About Homegirl Ain’t Gonna Make It: An African American Muslim Story by Eric Reese:

Gabrielle is back home but trouble still seems to find her wherever…

Fresh off her ordeal in Boston, Gabbie comes home finding her parents have divorced and sister, Khadi is becoming a young teenage horror. A new guy, Maleek, Ummi’s co-worker is trying too hard to be in with her family, quickly adding to the urban nostalgia.

Gabrielle’s friends could be a source of help but their childish behavior at a local mall will turn into an unbelievable adventure of suspense and drama with the Italians no one expected.

Perfect for coming of age readers, this fun-loving action in this episode of Homegirl Ain’t Gonna Make It doesn’t fail to deliver.

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About Lakeside by Amanda Linehan:

Badminton, Trivia, Evil Spirits. Welcome to Lakeside…Seventeen-year-old Jemi is the new girl in town. Again.After moving with her mother to the town of Lakeside, Jemi finds herself thrown into a busy life with new friends. Amid an array of new activities she volunteers to clean up the town lake and its surrounding park, which is rumored by superstitious locals to be controlled by evil spirits.When her project is sabotaged by a jealous classmate, Jemi is ready to throw in the towel. But with the help of her friends, an eccentric millionaire, and an array of memorable townspeople, Jemi takes back her project and learns that sometimes the way to success is to hang on and let go. Because in Lakeside, there’s always more than what meets the eye.

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About Just One Summer by Lynn Stevens:

One summer, no regretsCarly Reynolds does not want to work at her father’s Branson theater over the summer, but she has no choice. After wrecking his prized Mercedes on Prom night, she’s got to pay him back somehow before she leaves for college. Now she’s stuck working as the personal assistant to twenty-year-old Gracin Ford, former member of one-hit-wonder boy band Accentuate. Gracin is demanding, condescending, and an all-around jerk. Carly would rather eat glass than deal with a male diva who’s more famous for his stint in rehab than his music. Until she realizes that Gracin’s lonely. Once she welcomes him into her life, she starts to let him into her heart. Even though she knows it will end when she leaves for school, Carly doesn’t want to look back on her life and wonder what if. Even if it means a broken heart.

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About Bearly Awake: Providence Paranormal College Book One by D.R. Perry:

Pass, fail, or die. Bobby Tremain is going to flunk out. And it’s all a massive snowstorm’s fault.He’ll hibernate until spring unless he can figure out why he’s sleepier than the average bear shifter. When his professor assigns him a stunning genius-level tutor to pass exams, he discovers Lynn Frampton has her own problems. Lynn suspects the weather’s being magically enhanced. But as the only regular human on campus, nobody listens to her. Bobby’s listening but that’s a new experience for Lynn. Working together is the only way to survive the semester and they must focus on books instead of each other. But exams aren’t their only problem. Ignoring the magical threat is unbearably dangerous. Unknown forces want Providence Paranormal College closed down at any cost. You’ll love this tale of brain and bear. And this is only the beginning of a ten book series. Get it now.

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About Claimed: (The Land of Schism Book 1) Epic Fantasy Novel for Young and New Adults by Nicole Adamz:

An epic YA and New Adult fantasy saga that makes the term “frenemy” soar to new heights.

In a city divided between two gods, everyone has chosen sides.

The City: The Elysian fly around Summit obsessed with beauty, power, and pleasure. Born with surplus Talent, the citizens who become Caelum obediently squander their raw power, and unchallenged rules keep them in line—but times are changing. One Caelum crafts a malicious and deadly new use for Talent, and rising political tensions expose a simmering darkness beneath the city’s façade.

The People: Ari Laurel is an outcast with a secret, but she’ll risk exposure to save the only mother she knows from being sold at an auction. After a botched magical awakening, Ari is unexpectedly assigned to the lauded Second Born Storyweaver, Caelum Maewyn Ambire. Ari thinks she’s found an ally amid high-society prejudice, but trusting Maewyn might be her biggest mistake.

Maewyn’s family will make her do anything to gain social status—punishment for uncooperative behavior is severe. She thrashes under her family’s rigid control, and yearns for the power to reverse the situation. Especially when her obsessed, twisted former mentor reappears. In a desperate bid for freedom, Maewyn becomes bitterly ensnared in a web of deceit.

Both young women are unwitting pawns in an impending, cosmic clash between two gods. The odds are stacked against them, and the only god they trust is their own.

Whose side will you choose?

Claimed is an epic, world-building fantasy adventure involving secrets, faith, friendship, family, romance, and magic. This visionary and inspirational novel stirs the senses on how two friends begin to view each other as enemies, and how their decisions follow them into a brewing, world-altering war.

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About Beyond, the box set by Kristy Tate:

Beyond the Fortuneteller’s TentWhen Petra Baron goes into the fortuneteller’s tent at a Renaissance fair, she expects to leave with a date to prom. Instead, she walks out into Elizabethan England, where she meets gypsies, a demon dog and a kindred spirit in Emory Ravenswood.Beyond the HollowPetra Baron and her immortal boyfriend, Emory Ravenswood, are living their happily ever after in modern day Orange County, California until Dane, a heart-stoppingly handsome man from Petra’s past shows up. Petra can’t remember Dane, or anything else about her time in Tarrytown, New York two hundred years ago, but Emory does, and he knows she’s lucky to have forgotten all about Dane and the nightmarish episode in the fall of 1810. Beyond the PaleAfter their encounter with the Headless Horseman in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Petra Baron and her immortal boyfriend, Emory Ravenswood, find themselves thrust into the bustle of modern-day New York City, where the dangers are both living and dead.

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About Repatriate Protocol (The Repatriate Protocol Book 1) by Kelli Kimble:

In an underground world where everyone is afraid to go outside, could you risk yourself to save humanity?Hillary is just another girl, hoping to graduate to level C so that she can follow in the footsteps of her parents. But she soon learns that there is another path she can follow.In nearly a thousand years, only a few have seen the outside world, and virtually everyone inside is terrified of it. When Hillary is offered the chance to see it herself, she can’t help but want to jump into the adventure.But it isn’t just a matter of opening a door. Hillary must endure a rigorous education and brutal physical training to get outside. Can she pass through the grueling gauntlet to get outside? And what does she risk if she makes it?Part coming-of-age adventure, part survival horror, and part science fiction, REPATRIATE PROTOCOL is the gripping first installment in THE REPATRIATE PROTOCOL series by Kelli Kimble.

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About Chastity’s Belt by Dave Belisle:

How now! Blank page! For rampant rage, I write, you read These words I cage.Shakespearean writer’s chops ever-chopping, Belisle plays whack-a-mole with the hormones-a-hopping down a high school hallway near you. It’s a coming of age tale for bottled emotions that always seem to be just past their expiry date. Perhaps Shakespeare … re DB … should elaborate: Who be this sage, Who comes of age To stumbled youth As though they wage The longest war On longer shore Where hope is none To face the horror. How to escape This reddest tape That holdeth back Their back with cape?More to the point … 16-year-old Jane Chatterton bites off more than she bargained for in her bid to be more than just another girl at Ottawa’s Assumption Immaculata. Her weapons of choice? Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” … and a chastity belt. The boys in grade 10 English Lit never knew what hit them.

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About Atancia (The Durand Duology Book 1) by Wren Figueiro:

After watching a young boy die, college freshman Atancia Clark begins to have panic attacks. Her heart flutters, her breath catches, and she can’t control her emotions the way she always has. She wants to be strong, but lately she just hasn’t been living up to her own expectations. When she meets Ben Althaus, her breath starts catching for entirely different reasons. He helps Atancia discover the cause for her odd emotional reactions and the history she thought was lost when her mother left her. Like Ben, Atancia is Durand, an immortal who survives by transferring energy from other living things. He wants to help her hone her emerging abilities, but her focus is threatened by life-altering events. Thrust into a culture she never knew existed, Atancia will have to decide whom she can trust with her secrets and with her life.

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About Mageborn (The Mageborn Saga Book 1) by Dayne Edmondson:

Emma was a normal teenage girl before her twin nearly burned her to death.

When Emma and her brother discover they have magic, they are visited by an archmage of a school for mages. They embark on a journey, but it becomes fraught with peril as a deranged cult captures them. Using every trick in their book, and with the help of unexpected allies, they struggle to not only survive in the wilderness but foil a dangerous plot involving a world-ending artifact.

Can Emma and her allies overcome overwhelming odds and stop the cult before it’s too late?

The first book in a new series by author Dayne Edmondson, “Mageborn” takes place twenty years after “Shadows Fall” and features cameos from characters past.Read now to jump into the adventure.

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