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New release: Scavenger Girl Season of Atchem by Jennifer Arntson

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Stripped of their birthright and shunned by the people of Ashlund, Una and her family are forced to live on the fringe of society as Scavengers. There is no question that her family's bond is strong, but the law of the Authority is stronger...and soon it will come to collect her. After all, the family is on borrowed time already. When a night of torment and truth reveals well kept secrets, Una takes new freedoms - free from the Authority, her family, and possibly her fate. Pulled between the life she's always known and a world where status and rituals are everything, Una struggles to understand a culture that has rejected all she holds dear. As Atchem comes to an end and she learns who she really is, will Una find the courage to do what it takes to ensure her family's survival, or will she find the faith to follow her heart? www.ScavengerGirl.com facebook.com/ScavengerGirl goodreads.com/book/show/29509276 Instagram: Scavenger_Girl_Series pinterest.com/scavengerg Jenni

Trivia night! Last week to enter for "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis

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This week's trivia question: Sinclair Lewis' work was frequently featured in which magazine that is now known for pop culture?  Submit your answer here. A trivia question will be posted each week. All entries will go towards a monthly drawing. This month you have a chance to win  It Can't Happen Here  by Sinclair Lewis. It Can’t Happen Here  is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935

New mystery release: The Lost Spy by Kate Moira Ryan

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It is Paris, 1949. 27-year-old American detective and heiress, Slim Moran, is hired by a British spymistress to find Marie-Claire, a spy long presumed dead. Slim soon realizes that scores from the last war have not been settled. She races to find out what happened to this deeply troubled lost spy because if Marie-Claire is not dead, she will be soon. Marie Claire tapped back her response and removed the crystals, grabbed the antenna, and shut the case. Her job was finished; now she had to wait only two days to get out. After closing the case, she heard the concierge yell downstairs-warning her. She stashed the suitcase under the bed and pushed open the window. It was a straight drop down. If she jumped, she’d die, but if captured, she’d be tortured. She decided to jump. As she was about to leap, the polka-dotted bow on the front of her shoe caught between the window and the ledge. She was trying to disentangle herself when the SS men stormed into the room. Seeing her half out th

Vampires living in modern day Amsterdam and Prague, M.L. Worthingham's new release The Gloaming, Rise of the Stealth Vampire Elder

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In the aftermath of the mass slaughter of vampires in eighteenth century Europe Valentin tries to keep the fragile covenant not to kill mortals intact through a strategy of abundance. Working from the shadows as vampire elders rule the three nests of modern day Amsterdam, he attempts to manage the finances of the continental vampires while mentoring the newly turned American Steve. After dealing with a vampire hunter in Amsterdam, Valentin, Karolina, and Steve travel to the primal vampire nest in tunnels beneath the Mother of Cities to attend the annual council of elders ruled by Lord Makru. Things go horribly wrong though when a newly turned American girl on summer break tells a mortal everything about the vampires, but fails to feed on him, spurring yet another descendant of vampire hunters into action. Karolina's plans to start throwing feeding parties on unsuspecting mortals again after two and half centuries are put on hold as unrest in the four London nests spills over to

Debut novel from Goldsmiths’ graduate J. D. Dixon: The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle

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In a Scotland beset with depression, Willem is one victim among many. He loses his job, his mother dies and he is forced out of the flat they shared. Seeing no other option, he takes to the streets of Edinburgh, where he soon learns the cruelty felt outside the confines of his comfortable life. Stories from his past are interwoven with his current strife as he tries to figure out the nature of this new world and the indignities it brings. Determined to live freely, he leaves Edinburgh, hiking into the Scottish Highlands to seek solitude, peace and an unhampered, pure vision of life at nature’s breast. The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle is at once a lyrical, haunting novel and a set piece in the rage of an oppressed, forgotten community. J. D. Dixon’s sparse, brutal language captures the energy and isolation of desperation, uniting despondency and untrammeled anger in the person of his protagonist. Purchase on Amazon About the author: J.D. Dixon was born

Trivia night! Enter to win Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here"

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This week's trivia question:  It Can't Happen Here  was written during the Great Depression. What year did the Great Depression begin?  Submit your answer here. A trivia question will be posted each week. All entries will go towards a monthly drawing. This month you have a chance to win  It Can't Happen Here  by Sinclair Lewis. It Can’t Happen Here  is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published

Trivia night! Enter to win Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here"

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This week's trivia question: Sinclair Lewis was the first American author to receive what?  Submit your answer here. A trivia question will be posted each week. All entries will go towards a monthly drawing. This month you have a chance to win  It Can't Happen Here  by Sinclair Lewis. It Can’t Happen Here  is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935,  It Can’t Happen Here  is a shockingly