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In Search of the Kite Runner by Judi Slayden Hayes
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner (Riverhead Books, 2003), Hosseini shows us an Afghanistan rich in tradition and culture and an Afghanistan torn apart by war and political strife. We see Muslims who are not so different from Christians or Jews...Categorized as:
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![The First Hostage by Joel C. Rosenberg, David de Vries]()
The First Hostage by Joel C. Rosenberg, David de Vries
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“The president of the United States…is missing.”Three years before Clinton and Patterson, another New York Times bestselling author of thirteen international thrillers, Joel C. Rosenberg, posed this chilling scenario: What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history?Award-winning journalist J. B... -
![Hidden by Vannetta Chapman]()
Hidden by Vannetta Chapman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Christian romantic suspense by bestselling author Vannetta Chapman Home is where our story begins ... DANA JACOBS would rather forget the night of tragedy and violence that marred her childhood. She is now supervisor in charge of the Department of Homeland Security in Taos, New Mexico. Her team is prepared to handle any threat—biological, chemical, conventional, cyber, even nuclear... -
![Damascus Countdown by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
Damascus Countdown by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIsrael successfully launches a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheads. American president William Jackson threatens to support a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. And the Twelfth Imam prepares to order a genocidal retaliation... -
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![Saved by Hazel James]()
Saved by Hazel James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLeilani Moretti Life is out to get me. Humvee accident that took my right hand? Strike one. Cancer three years later that stole my breasts and hair? Strike two. An overbearing mother who seems to think I’m twelve, not twenty-seven? Yeah, I’m out of there. I thought moving to Oklahoma would give me a fresh start. I hoped life would finally cut me some damn slack...Categorized as:
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![The Ranger's Forgiveness: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book Five by Bree Livingston]()
The Ranger's Forgiveness: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book Five by Bree Livingston
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA conspiracy theorist, the high school sweetheart whose heart she broke, and the threats that bring them together. Taylor Mabrey runs a conspiracy theory satire website. It’s something she loves to do, and since it’s anonymous, she doesn’t think twice about it. But the fun stops when she starts getting ominous threats... -
![Adored by You: A Sweet, Celebrity, Military Romance by Jess Mastorakos]()
Adored by You: A Sweet, Celebrity, Military Romance by Jess Mastorakos
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan the sergeant and the celebrity get their second chance?Sergeant Noah West was eighteen years old the last time he saw Paige Walker. He joined the Marines for a more stable life and she left to chase her movie star dreams. But no matter where the Marine Corps sends him, he can't help but hope that their paths might one day cross again... -
![Royal Baby by Cami Checketts]()
Royal Baby by Cami Checketts
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA military leader focused on protecting his kingdom. A single mom in love with the absentee father of her baby. Will fate bring them together again or are they destined to live separate lives?Kingston trained with the United States Army, and met the love of his life. She had no desire to relocate to Magna so he made the hardest decision of his life, and walked away from her...Categorized as:
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![Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tantoo Cardinal]()
Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tantoo Cardinal
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation...Categorized as:
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![Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin]()
Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRussian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age... -
![The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFifty years after The New York Times broke a story that another Dead Sea Scroll had been found, a new evil is rising. White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy find themselves facing a terrifying new threat triggered by an ancient mystery... -
![To Live by C.G. Cooper]()
To Live by C.G. Cooper
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElmore Thadeus Nix, it's retirement time. You're sixty-five and ready. Take that final physical and then it's adios to your old life and hello to the new. Not so fast. Sorry, Elmore. Your plan's about to change. It's Elmore's last day of work. As part of his retirement, he heads to the family doctor for the follow-up to a routine physical. That's when the universe shifts on its axis. Cancer... -
![Sacred Hart by A.M. Johnson]()
Sacred Hart by A.M. Johnson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSleep, it was luxury I didn’t have. I could hear it then, in the dark light of night, in the dusky morning… The click of the trigger, the smell of her blood, the sound of the rain. I never thought I would see her again. She was a ghost. She was dead. When Maggie Wright pushed her way into my life, she brought the phantom with her, and I was helpless to her pull... -
![Amish Promises by Leslie Gould]()
Amish Promises by Leslie Gould
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJourney Down a Quiet Lane in Lancaster County Where Love and Heartache and Friendship and Healing Meet When Joel and Shani Beck arrive at their new home, they're looking for peace. Shani is thrilled to have Joel back from Iraq, but he needs time to heal, and the quiet of Lancaster seems just the place...Categorized as:
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![The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono]()
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSimply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern times. In the foothills of the French Alps the narrator meets a shepherd who has quietly taken on the task of planting one hundred acorns a day in an effort to reforest his desolate region. Not even two world wars can keep the shepherd from continuing his solitary work... -
![Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, Damion Searls]()
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, Damion Searls
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh...Categorized as:
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![Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer]()
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThe second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all.In which automation now provides for everybody’s basic needs.In which nobody living can remember an actual war... -
![The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia.Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs.With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow...Categorized as:
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![Royal Security by Cami Checketts]()
Royal Security by Cami Checketts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA smart, sassy princess; a tough security expert. When he’s assigned to protect her, can he stay immune to her?Princess Adelaide wants to make the medieval reenactment fairs successful. She does not want to be protected by an overconfident elite military man who also happens to be her brother’s best friend, and the man who broke her heart years ago... -
![Memories of You by Jess Mastorakos]()
Memories of You by Jess Mastorakos
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mind might forget but a soul remembers everything…When you get married, you make so many vows.For better or for worse. I’m a Marine with a wicked scar from the 50-cal round that almost took me out, so check that box.For richer or for poorer. We’ve been together forever, me and Cat, so check that one too.In sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until death do us part... -
![Three Weeks in Washington by Luana Ehrlich]()
Three Weeks in Washington by Luana Ehrlich
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTitus exposes a plot to attack the nation's capital with chemical weapons. Book III in the Titus Ray Thriller series, featuring CIA intelligence officer, Titus Ray. Encountering a Shooter . . . CIA intelligence operative, Titus Ray, arrives in Washington, D.C. on the day a terrorist enters the Washington Navy Yard and murders five people... -
![The Trouble with Crushes: A Romance by Brooke St. James]()
The Trouble with Crushes: A Romance by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first time I met Daniel King, he had a busted nose. He was also a couple of years younger than me, which seemed like a lot back then. I had always thought of him as more of a little brother or friend. I was so preoccupied with other guys that I never realized he had deeper feelings for me.By the time I saw the error of my ways, it was too late...Categorized as:
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![Freedom Code by Elaine Levine]()
Freedom Code by Elaine Levine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Sleeper SEALs are former U.S. Navy SEALs recruited by a new counter-terror division to handle solo dark ops missions to combat terrorism on U.S. soil.When a CIA agent is found beheaded in a Boulder, Colorado alley just hours after speaking to an informant about a potential terrorist cell, retired Navy SEAL Levi Jones is activated to find his killer... -
![Flightpath by Amber Addison]()
Flightpath by Amber Addison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom New York Times best-selling author Cristin Harber and Amber Addison comes an exciting collaboration… Being married young isn't a thing of the past in Louisiana. And for Madelyn and Seth, it's a way of life. Except, no one prepared them for the road ahead... -
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![Jenny by Melissa McClone]()
Jenny by Melissa McClone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrab your beach hat and a towel and prepare for a brand new series brought to you by twelve New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors… Beach Brides! Fun in the summer sun! Twelve heartwarming, sweet novellas linked by a unifying theme... -
![The Ranger's Hope: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book Four by Bree Livingston]()
The Ranger's Hope: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book Four by Bree Livingston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a stubborn therapist meets an Army Ranger who has given up, it’s a battle of wills—and a growing attraction. Counselor Kennedy Crenshaw loves her new job as director of Rescues for Vets. Not only does she get to help returning veterans, but she also finds homes for shelter dogs... -
![Royal Battle by Cami Checketts]()
Royal Battle by Cami Checketts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sweetheart of a princess and the leader of the rebellion...Categorized as:
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![Fallout by Rebecca Deel]()
Fallout by Rebecca Deel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWaking up with amnesia next to a dead body means big trouble for Willow Knox. Worse, the police believe she's a cold-blooded killer. On the verge of being arrested, Willow asks a black ops warrior for help. But someone wants Willow dead at any cost. If they're not careful, Willow and Max will lose everything, including their lives... -
![Trail of Danger by Valerie Hansen]()
Trail of Danger by Valerie Hansen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat she forgot could kill her A heart-stopping True Blue K-9 Unit book Injured by an attack she can’t remember, Abigail Jones knows someone’s after her, but she doesn’t know why or who . Now the man who rescued her, Officer Reed Branson, and his K-9 partner will shield her while she regains her memory... -
![Heppel Ever After by Con Riley]()
Heppel Ever After by Con Riley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBecause every epic romance deserves an epic happy ending...All Charles Heppel wants is a wedding. It's not much to ask now that he's set his playboy days aside for his almost-ordained fiancé. He can't wait for a lovely, lazy beach honeymoon with His Holy Hotness to continue Hugo’s education in the bedroom... -
![Christmas with You: A Sweet, Fake Relationship, Military Romance by Jess Mastorakos]()
Christmas with You: A Sweet, Fake Relationship, Military Romance by Jess Mastorakos
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCooper sighed and lowered his forehead to mine. “I’m really getting sick of people interrupting us when I’m trying to kiss you, Angie Black.” “Then stop trying to kiss me.” Marine Staff Sergeant Charles Cooper is desperate. When he idiotically made up a fake girlfriend to appease his grandmother, he hadn’t counted on Grandma Jean flying halfway across the country to meet her at Christmas...Categorized as:
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![The Ranger's Chance: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book One by Bree Livingston]()
The Ranger's Chance: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book One by Bree Livingston
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA computer geek, an Army Ranger assigned to get close to her, and the lies that could end everything before it begins. Mia Milan jumps at the chance to work as a computer security specialist in Miami. Installing software for a shipping company on the east coast sounds more like a paid vacation. She doesn’t realize her new boss, Harrison is a known transporter for human traffickers... -
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Correspondents by Tim Murphy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash...Categorized as:
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![Demian by Hermann Hesse]()
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsEmil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth...Categorized as:
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![The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick]()
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...Categorized as:
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![The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer]()
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA political SF epic of extraordinary audacity.The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location... -
![Keeping London by Ellie Wade]()
Keeping London by Ellie Wade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Two in the Flawed Heart Series... -
![The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto]()
The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize–winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique’s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead... -
![Loving London by Ellie Wade]()
Loving London by Ellie Wade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFLAWED I left. I followed my dream— To write, to feel, to live. But my life has no meaning without Loïc. I’m fading. I'm not whole, not me, Without him. Loving Loïc is how I breathe. FLAWED She's gone. I'm a hollow waste of space. I can't feel, can't breathe, can't fight Without London. She's who I am— What I am supposed to be. Loving London Is how I live... -
![Forever with You by Jess Mastorakos]()
Forever with You by Jess Mastorakos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe's been hurt before. As a U.S. Marine, he's the embodiment of loyalty.After being left at the altar, Sara came home to run her parents’ bookstore. She’s sworn off love, but as she gets to know the handsome Marine Recruiter who works next door, she can’t help but wonder if he might be just the man she always needed.Sergeant Vince Moore is struck by Sara the moment he meets her...Categorized as:
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![Two Hearts Unspoken by Tamara Ferguson, Adriana Hanganu]()
Two Hearts Unspoken by Tamara Ferguson, Adriana Hanganu
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#1 Two Hearts Wounded Warrior Series From The Bestselling Mother's Day Magic AnthologyMulti-Award Winning, Bestselling AuthorWINNER 2015 TRR Readers' Choice Award New Adult Romance WINNER 2016 TRR Readers' Choice Award Anthology RomanceThe single mom of a severely autistic son, Elizabeth Bowen is a full-time accountant in Illinois...Categorized as:
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![Reluctant Rescue (Park City Firefighter Romance) by Cami Checketts]()
Reluctant Rescue (Park City Firefighter Romance) by Cami Checketts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaylee Compton has determined she'll never commit to a man, especially a too-handsome, fun-sucker like volunteer firefighter, physician, and ex-military Captain Levi Turner. Levi determines to change her mind. In the beautiful and exciting location of Lake Powell, Caylee fights valiantly to stay strong, but Levi's patience, kindness, and kisses might conquer even her commitment phobia... -
![Candy by Kelly Fox]()
Candy by Kelly Fox
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm an atheist gym rat falling for a faithful man with a sweet tooth, and I can't help myself.When my gym buddies said I'd be stringing up Christmas lights with Caleb, they failed to mention how adorable he is... -
![A Soldier's Promise by Laura Scott]()
A Soldier's Promise by Laura Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReeling from a broken engagement that resulted in a small town scandal, ER nurse Julie Crain just wants to be left alone over the Fourth of July Holiday weekend. But when single dad, Derek Ryerson and his young daughter need a place to stay to recuperate from a car accident, Julie can't ignore their plight. She knows she needs to protect her heart, but little Lexi needs love and support...Categorized as:
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![The Free People's Village by Sim Kern]()
The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. For twenty years, Democrats have controlled all three branches of government, enacting carbon-cutting schemes that never made it to a vote in our world. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S...Categorized as:
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![The Veritas Conflict by Shaunti Feldhahn]()
The Veritas Conflict by Shaunti Feldhahn
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClaire Rivers races to the mailbox to receive a letter of acceptance to Harvard University while a heavenly battle rages. In this fast-paced, suspenseful novel, the ageless war for the hearts and minds of students on our college campuses is revealed. Conflict between unseen evil and angelic forces reflects their battle for victorious living amidst confused messages... -
![Guapa by Saleem Haddad]()
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval...Categorized as:
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![Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov]()
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his bees collect their pollen in peace.But Sergey lives in Ukraine, where a lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda has been dragging on for years... -
![The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf]()
The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago... -
![The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo]()
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Indonesian island is hastily given independence, and a Chinese-educated homosexual who was born on the island returns from his Canadian university to find his life radically altered. The story, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, represents an account of a post-colonial disaster...
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