Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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Aya and the Alphas by Berneta L. Haynes and Lornett B. Vestal
When a young girl, Aya Wright, develops extraordinary abilities and becomes a target of the world’s most powerful fader, Eve must protect her. But at what price? In the twenty-five years since she exposed the existence of faders, Eve Cooper has survived the collapse of her country and the loss of her closest friends. Now […]
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The Aliens by Budhaditya Ghosh
A deadly gamma-ray burst bears down on the ramshackle mining colonies orbiting Jupiter. As the Terran military struggles to evacuate everyone in time, tensions back home fly high as innocent refugees become pawns in a game of political maneuvers and posturing. The wheels of a sinister conspiracy begin to turn and grind even while the […]
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Silhouette Lost by Patricia M. Muhammad
Yamaria achieves consciousness as a child, and an ethereal being guides her. Her mother, Josephine, abuses young Yamaria’s gifts to access the planes of space and time, garnering the attention of the nefarious. When Yamaria unwittingly reunites with a former co-ed, Salvatore, while in Italy, they begin a courtship and he proposes. Antonio, a man […]
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Sweet as Murder by Patricia M. Muhammad
Wilhemina is a coloured detective in 1950s Atlanta, Georgia. She is married to Charles, an Anglo-Brit. Lieutenant Carmichael sends her and Detective Arthur Dobson undercover at the Society’s annual baking competition to investigate a murder committed during the preliminaries. There is more at stake for than a blue ribbon prize. One baker is poisoned the […]
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Ardennia: The Unlikely Story of Cinderella’s Prince by Bruce Calhoun
A Cinderella story like no other, Ardennia is a young adult historical fantasy that captures the magic, brutality and earthiness of the medieval age. This first book in a series chronicles the many adventures of Cinderella’s prince as he experiences his first joust, undergoes his baptism of fire in the Battle of Paris, is charmed […]
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Hidden Valor by Patricia M. Muhammad
Duchess Arabella leaves the House of Wellington for the king’s court without notice or permission of her mother and father. Two murders occur in the royal palace. Duke Everett is accused amongst the courtiers. He pursues the duchess to take her hand in marriage. The Crown sequesters all of the king’s court to the royal […]
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Ellowyn Acers by Andrea White
Ellowyn Acers, a once ordinary girl, is set off to a school filled with adventure, magic, and of course, friends. With Rowan, Ellis and Averly by her side, her entire world is changing. For better, or for worse! Embark on a magical adventure with Ellowyn, a promising young witch, who discovers more than she bargained […]