5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By Christopher Graves Most books about real estate development are not really about anything beyond the transaction. A Sense of Place: The Story of Port Warwick is a different kind of book entirely, one that asks what it actually means to build somewhere worth living, and then answers that question with the story of how developer Bobby Freeman turned 153 acres of contaminated former industrial land i

5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By Sally Pearson There is a particular kind of memoir that earns its warmth not by glossing over the hard parts but by looking at them squarely and finding, somehow, something worth laughing about on the other side. David Browning Abright’s My Tumbling Bumbling Wonderful Life belongs firmly in that category. It is candid in the way that only a writer who has genuinely made peace with his own stumbles

5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By William Reimers There is something quietly audacious about a writer who sets out to trace an entire human life across a collection of short stories, and Paul Clayton pulls it off with considerable grace. Seeing Sunny Again follows the arc from childhood to old age, gathering its characters at the moments that actually shape a life: the early stirrings of desire, the particular disorientation of se

5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By Valeria Parker What a gift it is when a novelist brings genuine lived experience to the page. W. Michael Blumenthal was himself a teenage refugee in Shanghai, and that personal history pulses through every chapter of this riveting historical thriller. His protagonist Obermann arrives in WWII Shanghai already on the run, and the city he lands in is exactly as chaotic and dangerous as one might imag

5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By Maya Towers Ellen Turner arrives in Branded already knowing something most people spend years learning the hard way: that desire is a form of power, and power is what she intends to have. At eighteen she grasps a lesson that will shape every decision that follows, that seduction is not about attraction but about control. From that moment forward, Michael Solomon’s novel becomes a portrait of a wom

5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By Fabiana Barbery The title comes from Samuel Beckett, and it lands with the quiet force that Beckett’s best lines always do: dying is much like any other day, only shorter. For an oncologist who has spent more than fifty years watching people approach that shorter day, it is not a bleak observation but an honest one, and Frank J. Brescia builds his meditation around exactly that honesty. An Ordinar

5 Star Review Click HERE to Purchase Your Copy Today! Editorial Book Review: By Laura Zanky The Carolina Mountains have always been fertile ground for strange and unsettling fiction, and Leslie McCall understands exactly why. In Trailhead & Other Stories, he works the seam between the familiar and the disturbing with the assurance of a writer who knows that the most disquieting things are never entirely foreign. They live close to home, in landscape you recognize, among peopl

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