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Montana Pines Winter Romance: Find your way home

August 8, 2025
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Montana Pines Winter Romance: Find your way home

“And then they just walked away through the tops of the snowy pines, and I swear I haven’t been drinking, officer!”

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The Girls of Tonsil Lake

August 8, 2025
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The Girls of Tonsil Lake

There is NO WAY to take that title as other than a double entendre.

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How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

August 8, 2025
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How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

And design by the same aesthetic.

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RAD YOUTH LIB: Dismantling the roots of all oppression

August 7, 2025
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RAD YOUTH LIB: Dismantling the roots of all oppression

Read the description, and you’ll realize that the “bad” cover is just, like, rebellion against the constraints of convention, man. (h/t axolotl)

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Saturday He Fed the Cat

August 7, 2025
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Saturday He Fed the Cat

Whoever put this cover together is permitted to operate motor vehicles. How’s THAT for frightening?

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THE DRAGON WAY HOME

August 7, 2025
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THE DRAGON WAY HOME

It appears to involve drugs.

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Operation Absolom: A World War II Action Adventure. (Carter’s Commandos Book 1)

August 6, 2025
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Operation Absolom: A World War II Action Adventure. (Carter’s Commandos Book 1)

Remember, nothing says “excitement” like Norway!

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The Thin Line (‘Bobby Harris – Beach P.I. Series Book 1)

August 6, 2025
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The Thin Line (‘Bobby Harris – Beach P.I. Series Book 1)

“Oh, crap! Better slap the genre on there so readers will have some clue as to the contents!”

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