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Clean Fiction Is Growing — So Where Are the Reviews?
Did you know clean fiction is quietly rising in popularity? I say “quietly” because mainstream outlets aren’t really talking about it. In fact, clean fiction remains largely underrepresented in the book industry. So if more people are reading clean fiction, then where the heck are all the reviews? The truth…
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Discarded: Black President by Brenda Hampton
Black President: The World Will Never Be the Same is the first book in the Black President series by Brenda Hampton. Here’s a portion of the book’s synopsis: The man who now holds the keys to the Oval Office was born and raised in the rough streets of St. Louis,…
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Every Time You Go Away by Beth Harbison
Willa Bennett’s husband Ben died a few years ago and she’s still recovering from it. She’s even grown a bit detached from her young adult son, Jamie. Now, it’s time for Willa to return to their family beach house in Ocean City, Maryland where Ben died so she can put…
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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls is about two teenagers and best friends who suffer from anorexia and bulimia. It’s by Laurie Halse Anderson, who also wrote Speak. Lia and Cassie vowed years ago to the be the skinniest girls in school, and even competed with one another for the title. One day, Cassie is…
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I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay
Richard Boyle, a high school English teacher, becomes a hero when he stops a former student from blowing up his school. But Richard’s sudden fame takes a downward turn when he’s blackmailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Can Richard clear his name and find the real bad guy before…
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I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
This is the first book by Clare Mackintosh, who’s wildly popular for packing lots of shocking twists into her thrillers. The prologue of I Let You Go opens onto a heartbreaking scene in the rain, where a 5-year-old boy, Jacob, lets go of his mother’s hand and runs directly into…
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Six Weeks to Live by Catherine McKenzie
Jennifer, mom of grown triplets, is intentionally poisoned and diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She suspects someone in her family is to blame. Jennifer has only 6 weeks left to live—can she identify her murderer before it’s too late?
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Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
Cloud of Sparrows: An Epic Novel of Japan takes place in 1861, during the time of shogun, samurai, geisha, and ninjas. I specifically sought out this book after watching Shogun on FX, based on the novel Shogun by James Clavell. On January 1, 1861, a young nobleman named Lord Genji…
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The Sphinx by Graham Masterton
It’s been about 20 years since I read my first book by Graham Masterton, which I believe was Prey. He’s one of my all-time favorite horror novelists, simply one of the best. Every time I walk into a used bookstore, his name is one of the first I look for…