Kathy McIntosh is the author of ​Murder, Truth or Consequences Style

Mystery/Cozy

In a town called Truth or Consequences, somebody's hiding both.

Madrone Hunter can't catch a break - not even on vacation. A relaxing stay in New Mexico's hot springs town turns chilling the moment her host's neighbor is found dead, right after the two had fought bitterly over a property line.

Police call it suicide. The victim's son calls it murder. When Madrone starts digging, she not only finds motives but a decade of rivalries, betrayals, and a blackmail scheme that someone would kill to keep buried. As the suspect list grows, so does the danger. In a town built on secrets, will the truth cost Madrone everything? 

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Erik D. Larson is the author of The Kikiloa Chronicles

The Kikiloa Chronicles

Literary Science Fiction (Time Travel)

“An engaging time-travel romp that mashes up Jung and Doctor Who to masterful effect.” OUR VERDICT: ✓ GET IT — Kirkus Reviews

“Moving, surprising time-travel story of the fight against entropy. Rewards patient attention.”  Editor’s Pick — BookLife Reviews by Publishers Weekly

Kikiloa, the puckish and imperfect time-surfing Mother of humanity, takes us on an award-winning kaleidoscopic adventure of hope, loneliness, and self-discovery. Reviewers agree: it's a "wildly original" novel "unlike anything else" they've read — philosophical literary storytelling that "offers a rich and rewarding experience."

Kiki is both the 200,000-year-old Mitochondrial Eve and a freckled fourteen-year-old trickster bounding across a San Francisco park to meet her ordinary friend Hazel, who Kiki believes can make death itself pass people by. Probably.

As she flickers across a trillion universes, Kiki is determined to discover an antidote to entropy before everything meaningful is lost. And she hopes Hazel is the key.

When a cliff collapses beneath them and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left facing the man who attacked them, while Kiki’s braided hopes unravel backward through self-delusion, all the way to her bleak first life as an outcast enslaved in a dystopian prehistoric world.

But Kiki never lets up. She laments a Hawaiian tsunami, alchemizes sniper attacks, tells quantum stories, weaves through highway pileups, goes Jungian, and bakes perfectly average cookies. And through it all, she spars with her infuriating, enigmatic mentor Paha, who believes surfing is elegy: all waves break, and fighting the end only creates suffering.

The Kikiloa Chronicles is Erik D. Larson’s emotionally vast, funny, and wild literary debut carried by Kiki’s unmistakable voice — from the devastating loneliness of her first life to the hard-won wisdom of friendship. Charming and self-deceiving, she wrestles with love, a force like gravity, alive at the core of a universe destined for darkness.

Circe meets Douglas Adams in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin. Foreword Clarion 5 out of 5, Literary Titan Gold Book Award, 2× American Fiction Awards Winner.

Read Book One of Kikiloa's trilogy with your eyes, mind, and heart wide-open. 

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Mark Grenside is the author of the Marcus Riley Thriller Series

 Sunset Circus

Thriller

Producer Marcus Riley believes dangerous stories belong on screen. That changes when Charlie Foster, a former Hollywood prop buyer now scraping by on Venice Beach, presses a riddle into his hand. Hours later, Charlie is found dead outside Sunset Circus, a pawn shop in Los Angeles.

When the police start asking questions, Marcus realises Charlie's puzzle points to the Miksas, a Nevada crime family who rule on two buried secrets: a fortune in Romanov treasure smuggled out of Russia by Olga Miksa's father, and an act of Cold War betrayal that bought the family's immunity from East and West alike.

With his partner, designer Melinda 'Mako' de Turris, Marcus follows the trail into the Nevada desert, uncovering an assault on Charlie's daughter at The Mighty Bison casino and the theft of an artefact the Miksas must recover, one that ties back to the lost Tobolsk urns and the Eremin Letters, and forward to Stalin's darkest secret. Olga and her daughter Lexi Miksa will do whatever it takes to hold on to power, and the deeper Marcus and Mako dig, the higher the body count climbs. Riley digs into the past, but he could end up digging a grave for himself.

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Linda Soules is the author of the So You Want To Be A... series

The So You Want To Be A... series, a growing collection of career-exploration books for readers ages 10–14. Now with 50 books!

So You Want To Be A Shark Researcher: A Kids' Guide to Sharks, Marine Science, Ocean Conservation, and the Bold Scientists Who Study the Sea's Top Predators

Children's Nonfiction (Middle Grade)

​​Sharks have been in the ocean for more than 400 million years. We are only now beginning to learn where they go, and the answers are coming from people who spend far more time on data than in the water.

In So You Want To Be A Shark Researcher, readers ages 10–14 learn what studying sharks actually involves: satellite and acoustic tagging, tracking migrations, taking tissue samples, analyzing diet and reproduction, surveying populations, and building the statistical models that turn scattered detections into a picture of a species' life.

Young readers get the real path in — biology, chemistry, statistics, and coding coursework, dive certification, boat handling, volunteer and internship work, undergraduate degrees, and the graduate research where most shark science happens. The book also covers the conservation side, where science meets fishing policy and international agreements.

It profiles working shark scientists and researchers who changed how the animals are understood, and it is candid about the trade-offs: fierce competition for funding, seasonal fieldwork, long stretches at a computer, seasickness, and the difficulty of protecting species that many people still fear.

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Prince Adam's Quest by Terrence W. Walsh is On Sale

 

Prince Adam's Quest by Terrence W. Walsh is now ON SALE for $.99 on Amazon Kindle.

Get your copy by Sunday, August 16.

 

One dragon. One prince. One witness. A Quest that will change them all.

Prince Adam always wins. When destruction and a dragon are reported in the kingdom of Leftovria, Prince Adam sets forth on a Quest to slay the dragon, accompanied by the apprentice bard, Minnow. Their journey takes them over bridges managed by trolls. Trolls love tolls, which Adam struggles to pay. Minnow composes songs as they travel, charming everyone including the king of trolls.

The Quest may have three endings: history, comedy, or tragedy. Adam, by his actions, will get to choose his fate.  

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