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Book Review: Putin by Philip Short

May 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Book Review: Putin by Philip

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This is meticulously researched, and very readable. It starts with the life of Putin’s grandfather and gives a good overview of Russia from the early 1900s to the present. If you want to understand not just Putin, but that part of the world, I would highly recommend this book.

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Featured Fantasy: Barely Magic (Maddy Madrigal Mysteries Book 1) by Debra Castaneda

May 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Barely Magic (Maddy Madrigal Mysteries Book 1) by Debra Castaneda

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“Fans of early Anita Blake will definitely appreciate this!”

“I highly recommend this book – and I can’t wait for the next in the series!”

“The novel expertly balances suspense and supernatural elements”


Maddy Madrigal doesn’t believe she’s magic. If she were, she wouldn’t be busting her butt every day working for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Occult Affairs division, rounding up the strange and nasty entities unleashed by the last earthquake. At forty, if she were magic, she’d have less aggravation and more money.

So, when a security job opens up in an exclusive gated community, she takes it. Better money, great perks, and best of all, no entities.

At first, her problems are solved—the job’s great, she’s made new friends, and a good-looking man has caught her eye. She even has time to cook her favorite Mexican dishes while her new cat watches, though there’s something not quite right about him.

But the fancy neighborhood she was hired to protect hides a secret: something supernatural is attacking the residents, and as Maddy tries to unravel the mystery, she discovers a secret of her own: she may have inherited magical abilities from her famous great aunt, a Mexican witch.
With monsters roaming the hilly streets, residents up in arms, and her boss breathing down her neck, Maddy must decide how far she’s willing to go to preserve her new life.

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Barely Magic, Debra Castaneda, Maddy Madrigal Mysteries

Featured Sci-fi: Star Kingdom Books 1 – 3 by Lindsay Buroker

May 15, 2025 by Carolynn

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★★★★★ “…endearing characters you can’t help but root for!”

It is a time of treachery, terrorism, and tyranny in the Star Kingdom. The king cannot be trusted, the galaxy is on the brink of war, and a notorious mercenary is destroying everything—and everyone—in his path on his quest for vengeance.

The Star Kingdom is in dire need of heroes.

What it gets is a band of misfits and underdogs:

• A washed-up bounty hunter struggling to make ends meet.
• A genetically engineered cat woman on the run from her makers.
• A robotics professor who gets space sick before leaving orbit.
• A brilliant scientist who’s better at punching people than talking to them.

As unlikely as it seems, this motley crew is the best hope for bringing peace to the galaxy. But they have troubles of their own, and they’ll have to fly fast to avoid being hunted down and killed.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Lindsay Buroker, Star Kingdom

Featured Fantasy: Stolen Time (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 1) by Christine Pope

May 15, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Stolen Time (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 1) by Christine Pope

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When the past steals her future, only one man can help her reclaim it.

Devynn Rowe never asked for her unpredictable gift of time travel. But when a fall in an abandoned mine shaft hurls her back to Jerome, Arizona, in 1926, she finds herself trapped in a world where her own witch clan — the Wilcoxes — are the mortal enemy of the McAllisters of Jerome.

Rescued by the handsome and kind warlock Seth McAllister, Devynn weaves a web of lies to protect her true identity. As she struggles to adapt to life a century before her time, she can’t ignore the growing attraction between them. But pursuing a relationship could unravel everything she’s fought to keep hidden.

Seth is drawn to the mysterious woman he found unconscious in the mine, even as his duties to his clan pull him in another direction. When family obligations thrust him into a dangerous world of bootlegging and deceit, he finds himself torn between loyalty and love.

As Devynn and Seth dance around their feelings and their secrets, the truth threatens to burn away all their illusions. But time is running out. A moment of violence changes everything…catapulting them into a situation more perilous than either could have imagined.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christine Pope, Stolen Time, The Witches of Mingus Mountain

Featured Sci-fi: Star League Assasins by Jaxon Reed

May 15, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Star League Assasins by Jaxon Reed

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The Republic’s AI controls a clone on one planet. The League controls a bot on another . . .

Jade Thrall is the League’s Tetrarch but she holds a secret even she does not realize. She is a highly advanced droid, formerly known as Miriam.

Few military assets are available to Jade in her effort to wrest back League planets lost during the war. But one potent tool remains in her arsenal: assassins . . .

Join this rip-roaring, action-packed space opera adventure! Featuring space marines, rotten villains, fist fights, gun battles and sharp political intrigue, Digital Death kicks off a brand new series by veteran science fiction and fantasy author Jaxon Reed set in the Milky Way Universe.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Departure (G581 Book 1) by Christine D. Shuck

May 14, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Departure (G581 Book 1) by Christine D. Shuck

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Their mission was to build a second home for humanity – but who knows if humanity will survive long enough to reach it? Setting forth on a six-year journey to Gliese 581g – Zarmina’s World – Daniel Medry and a crew of fellow scientists planned to explore a brand-new world potentially ripe for colonisation – but when a man-made virus wipes out most of Earth’s population and leaves the rest infertile, their exploration mission becomes humanity’s only hope for survival.

Alone in deep space, a series of equipment malfunctions occur that might not be accidental – and as the crew struggles for survival, some suspect that one of their own intends to keep them from making planetfall. With time running out, Daniel must stop the saboteur before humanity’s last hope for survival is snuffed out in the cold, unforgiving vacuum of space.

Gliese 581: The Departure is an exhilarating sci-fi thriller. If you like dystopian future worlds, second-chance heroes, and suspenseful mysteries, then you’ll love Christine Shuck’s gripping intergalactic thrill-ride.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christine Shuck, G581, The Departure

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