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The Accidental Gatekeeper
The Accidental Gatekeeper: The Accidental Midlife Trilogy Book 1 by Carla Rehse BooksGoSocial Everly Popa is a middle-aged mom of one who has informed the FBI on her husband and, for safety for herself and daughter, has returned to her hometown, Crossing Shadows. This town isn’t the usual sort of home town, but a border between other worlds and the earthly one. And Everly is from one of three families who are marked and who alternately act as gatekeepers between the worlds in order to keep the balance. Currently, it’s another family that is slated to take over the job but when Everly arrives it seems all hell has broken…
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Wish Hunter
Wish Hunter: (The Savannah River Series Book 1) by Jordan Riley Swan and Hero Bowen. Story Garden Nadia Kaminski is a wish thief, using her position as a marriage counsellor to steal wishes from her clients. She comes from a family of wish hunters and they currently owe a huge debt of wishes. But Nadia has never used her own wishes and wants to use one of her own to resurrect her murdered husband. In order to do that, she needs to steal an untracked wish to find a way to clear the debt. An opportunity that fulfills this requirement happens along and she steals a wish from Miles, a…
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Throughout the history of the world, the countries that have existed have been through constant change. Sometimes there’s an invasion and sometimes it’s just a case of an unclaimed island being claimed. This adorable book covers forty-eight countries that once existed but are now, in the words of the author, extinct, If you are looking for extensive information, this is not the place to go. Only a few pages are devoted to each country and one of those pages is a map. It’s a fun book with humorous accounts of how countries came to be and again how they ceased to be. It’s short and sweet and great for those…
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The Blacktongue Thief
“I was about to die. Worse, I was about to die with bastards.” These first words of The Blacktongue Thief provide a pretty good idea of the nature of this wonderful book. Kinch Na Shannack is the speaker of these words and he’s the narrator of this tale. He’s a Galt thief, who owes a massive debt to the Takers Guild. He also has a bit of magic, which isn’t exactly common knowledge. Kinch is offered an opportunity to reduce his debt and is asked to either accompany or follow Galva, a Spanth he and his associates attempted to rob earlier. The task is supposed to take him to Oustrim…
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The Text God: Text and You Shall Receive
Jen is having a hard time in life at the moment and she really wishes something good would happen. She says a little prayer and “God” answers her in the form of a text. Meanwhile, Gabe sends a text message to the younger sister of his friend, offering some help as she is following the same career path as he has. This younger sister keeps asking for more and more and soon he is thinking she’s a bit off her rocker. Some of Gabe’s assistance gets Jen into a job at a hotel that he works with as a hospitality lawyer. It’s not long before they happen to meet and…