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The Better Part of Worse by Denise-Marie Martin is a historical fiction novel published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Q5XasE Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The novel spans several decades, beginning in 1927 and concluding in 1959. It explores themes of family bonds, love, mental illness, and resilience . The story follows Jamie Murphy and his wife Ka...

The Husband by Daniel Hurst is a psychological thriller published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40YZJ6f Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around a seemingly ordinary man named Lachlan, who harbors dark secrets, including a past murder. When a documentary about the unsolved murder of a young woman from his childhood resurfaces, it threa...

Relationship Road Map: Turn by Turn Directions to Finding Your Spouse by Stephen Chandler is a religious self-help guide published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42CtLxS Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book is a practical and inspirational guide for singles seeking marriage, using the metaphor of a road trip to navigate the journey of dating with pu...

"Lie for a Million" by Janet Dailey is a fiction novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42IE3N4 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Lila Culhane, whose life is thrown into chaos after her husband, Frank, is murdered. Lila must contend with Frank's scheming grown children and ex-wife who want to evict her from the ranch she...

Heart of the Glen by Jennifer Deibel is a historical romance novel published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hA2LTY Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story is set in County Donegal, Ireland in 1912, and follows Saoirse Fagan, a young woman burdened by a tragic past, who finds herself seeking refuge at Drumboe Castle. When she discovers the castle is a...

The Monkey State by J. R. Roberts is a fictional novel, first published in Great Britain in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gsvqJq Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story is set in the rainforest of Tierra Libre, where monkeys live under the strict control of the State. The protagonist, Claude, is a State Inspector who feels increasingly disillusioned wi...

The Mother's Phone Call by Victoria Jenkins is a psychological thriller published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aIy4d3 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around two families, the Clarkes and the Harrises, and the complex relationships between them. The book opens with a 999 call from a mother reporting her son for murder, and the plot...

The book, titled A Second Act , is written by Dr. Matt Morgan . It is a non-fiction book, likely in the self-help or memoir genre , and was published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hnrqLM Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book explores the lives of individuals who have experienced a "second act" after facing death or a major life crisis. It draws on...

Before the King by Heather Kaufman is a work of Christian historical fiction published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jCn4lo Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The novel tells the story of Joanna , a woman mentioned in the Bible as someone healed by Jesus and who financially supported him. The story explores her life as the daughter of a Sadducee priest,...

The Empress of Ireland by Juliet Rosetti is a work of historical fiction published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42BzyDU Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story is set in 1914 and follows multiple characters connected to the Empress of Ireland ocean liner, which sank in the St. Lawrence River after a collision. The book features characters such as Re...

The book is titled I Know What I Saw by K.T. Carlisle , it is a fictional story published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ElaLdh Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story follows Eliza, a teenager who is haunted by a traumatic event from her past involving a monster in the woods. She lives in the small town of Whitehall, New York, where strange things b...

"Buy What You Love Without Going Broke" by Jen Smith and Jill Sirianni, is a personal finance book published in January 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jGpVKb Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book addresses the common struggles people face with spending, saving, and managing money, and it challenges traditional personal finance advice that the authors f...

Port in a Storm by Jeff Downs is a fictional novel published in 2024 . The book is an action-filled martial arts adventure available on Amazon; https://amzn.to/3Q53gtt Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story follows Nolan and Kali Richardson , a married couple on a cruise in the Bahamas. Their vacation takes a dangerous turn when they get caught up in a series of e...

Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran is a nonfiction book published in 2025 available on Amazon; https://amzn.to/3CF4EQn Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book is a memoir that explores the author's life as a South Asian, specifically a Sri Lankan Tamil, and his experiences with identity, displacement, and family. It delves into...

Bury Me Cold & More Last Words by Jacob Steven Mohr is a horror collection of short stories published in 2025 available on Amazon; https://amzn.to/3EzF3ZB Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The collection features 14 stories in the vein of classic pulp horror, with elements of cosmic horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and crime thrillers, often incorporating mix...

Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis by Debórah Dwork , is a history book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Q0Zl0T Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book tells the stories of a number of Americans, including Quakers, Jews, and Unitarians, who traveled to various locations around the world to provide aid to...

Making Time: A New Vision for Crafting a Life beyond Productivity by Maria Bowler is a manifesto published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jMiUYu Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. That critiques productivity culture and offers a path to creative living. It is not a self-help book with formulas or instructions, but rather a message to let the words land wi...

Save Me, Stranger by Erika Krouse is a collection of short stories published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WKUxjZ Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The collection includes stories previously published in literary magazines. The stories explore diverse themes, including: A young woman mayor of a Siberian village who takes in a mysterious American. A pian...

Choose Trust: Building relationships for business success by Stuart Maister and Kevin Vaughan-Smith and was published in 2024. It appears to be a business guide available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gtyEN4 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book explores the challenges and opportunities of trust from multiple perspectives, including personal, and organizational trus...

Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It by Christopher DiCarlo, Ph. D., is a non-fiction book in the genre of ethics and technology, published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hmEDEC Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book explores the complex issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), examining what we cur...

Cinderella’s Moroccan Midnight Kiss by Nina Milne is a Harlequin Romance novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hoazbD Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story follows Lily Culpepper , founder of a prestigious housekeeping service, who is hired to prepare a villa in Morocco for a charity fundraiser. She meets Darius Kingsleigh , the villa owne...

"What's Your Dream?" by Simon Squibb , is a self-help/business book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hq2AuS Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book is about how to discover and pursue your dream. Simon Squibb, the author, shares his experiences as an entrepreneur, starting his first business at fifteen while homeless, and eventually selling hi...

The Enemy by C. Lymari is a fiction novel, copyrighted in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/410zDzI Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Lourdes Riviere and her tumultuous relationship with her stepbrother, Neo Caldwell. Lourdes, the daughter of the founder of a Fortune 500 company, finds her position threatened when her father's new wife...

"Falling for the Single Daddy" by Flora Ferrari, and it is a romance novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40HxaJg Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Gray Aldridge , a 43-year-old single father, and Callie Monroe , a 23-year-old woman who becomes his daughter Emery's nanny. Gray and Callie experience an intense attraction...

A Mother’s Last Wish by Jo Bartlett is a work of women's fiction , first published in Great Britain in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aJe8GY Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Louisa , a mother who is diagnosed with incurable cancer and her efforts to ensure her family will be okay after her death. The narrative explores her relatio...