Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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Existence Parallel by Patricia M. Muhammad
Two worlds exist. One tangible, and the other intangible. Only the elders of the first world know the secrets of the other. This is what they believe. For many years Queen Udelilia conspires against Princess Valera because of her destiny and the gifts the Great Powers bestowed upon her. The princess escapes the watchful eye […]
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Macbeth’s Spinners by Justine Johnston Hemmestad
Macbeth’s Spinners begins in Eleventh Century Scotland with the supernatural transformation of the three Greek fates, but witchcraft only serves as a cover for their true mission. To thwart their ancient nemesis, the Greek god Apollo, they consolidate their power to help the warlord Macbeth, though Apollo is aware and tries to crush Macbeth in […]
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McMinnville by Derrick McCartney
Two photographs taken on a spring evening in 1950 that seem to show the impossible—we are not alone. A thirteen-year-old girl disappears the same evening, but returns thirty years later without aging a day. A dying detective on the hunt for the answers to one mystery falls afoul of a more profound mystery that calls […]
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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 […]