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Up In a Heaval by Piers Anthony
An innocent piece of Mundane Snail Mail has provoked the dreaded Demon Jupiter to hurl his Red Spot at the magical land of Xanth. As the dire Dot draws closer, the unwelcome ordeal of saving the enchanted realm falls to Umlaut, an unlikely lad with an unknown past and an uncertain future. With a handful of colorful companions at his side, Umlaut must unravel a high-stakes intergalactic puzzle, uncover the secret of his mysterious past, and learn to understand the urgings of his own heart.

Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
In the spring of 1937, Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his struggling family after a year spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. His wife and children have been living under the care of his sister Anna on the harsh and unforgiving prairie landscape. A survivor of war, labour camp, and Stalin’s crimes in Ukraine, Teodor is determined to make a new life for his family, and so he takes to the land with desperation and resolve. As the crops grow so does the strength of the children and Teodor’s willpower, but the family peace is soon disrupted by the return of Anna’s rogue husband who has been unable to find a backer for a get-rich scheme that involves buying land along the railway line. Tensions between the two men heighten as Stefan increasingly treats Teodor like a hired hand and demands a cut from the sales of the crops. Soon the family is splintered with a brother pitted against his sister, a son against his mother, and a mother against her newborn, leading to an unforgettable tragic climax. A novel about family, struggle, survival, and the resiliency of the human spirit, Under This Unbroken Sky is an emotionally resonant tale told with cinematic aplomb by a passionate new storyteller.

I Can See You by Karen Rose
Eve Wilson’s face was once scarred by a vicious assault. Terrified and ashamed, she escaped to the online realm, where she could choose the face she allowed people to see. Years later, her outer scars faded and inner scars buried, Eve has fought her way back to the real world and is determined to help others do the same. Now a graduate student moonlighting as a bartender, Eve researches the addictive powers of online communities. When her test subjects begin turning up dead as a result of apparent suicides, she doesn’t know where to turn. Homicide detective Noah Webster is one of the few people who believe the victims are connected murders. Eve becomes Noah’s online guide and realizes that the handsome detective may have secret scars as painful as her own. As Eve and Noah chase a killer who is always one step ahead of them, together they try to overcome the tragedies of their pasts and learn to trust again, but they soon discover that danger is much closer than they think.

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