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In a memoir full of charm and grit, Pieman: The Papa D Story, June V. Bourgo and Dennis Bourgo relay their story of how Dennis – aka Papa D – built his meat pie business at the end of a dirt road, with June’s love and support. On the coast of British Columbia, the Bourgos found a rural piece of land and undertook the painstaking process of creating the wildly successful Papa D’s Comfort Foods, featuring his Nana’s recipe. Although the book’s focus is often disrupted by free association and digressions, readers will be drawn in by the authors’ easy, […]

A tender and engrossing work of romance, Love, Lydie by Blair Harton encapsulates a teenage girl’s dreams of romantic fate. On the streets of Greenwich Village, rockstar Nathan Roth defends a young woman, Lydia, in an altercation with her boyfriend – a fateful encounter, as they fall in love. The novel fast-forwards a decade to Lydia’s hometown, where Nathan is a single father working at the local theater, and their relationship takes a turn because Nathan is in love with the theater’s events coordinator. Secrets and wounds are unearthed, weaving unexpected mystery into the novel through a series of enticing […]

I’m Right Behind You by Rose Talitha is a chilling, suspenseful thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. Candice and her husband Dr. Max Kilbourne become the center of a murder mystery when one of his patients is murdered, and he’s a prime suspect. Isolating themselves in remote woods, they are led to dig into each other’s pasts and reveal secrets that are better left buried. Talitha unfolds this mystery through a collection of well-drawn characters who will do anything to protect their own version of “good,” with their stories intertwining in a chorus of internal monologues that show, […]

A spellbinding sci-fi adventure, Alien Son by G.S. Kenney time travels between Earth and the planet Aran and across eras in search of answers to a great mystery. When doctoral candidate Aiana Kim sees herself in a hologram in a time and place no historian has ever accessed, she knows that although her research threatens dangerous heresy, she must get there. Meanwhile, Mikel, Earth’s only interstellar half-breed, is on Aran with his own story to tell. Though the digressions into history and backstory sometimes slow the pace, this space opera is exceptionally well-written and expertly plotted with a complex series […]