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Category: Books

‘Acts of God’ by Kanan Gill: A Book Review

August 28, 2025August 27, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Acts of God’ by Kanan Gill, is a mind bending pocket universe story with an entertaining narrator.

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Stack Overflow: 5 Spooky Books and 3 Family Stories for August

August 25, 2025August 19, 2025Mariana Ruiz

I love Halloween themed books, and middle grade novels, too.

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Circular Motion by Alex Foster. Front Cover

‘Circular Motion’ by Alex Foster: A Book Review

August 21, 2025August 21, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Circular Motion’ charts the lives of 3 characters from a forgotten industrial town, set against the backdrop of a world literally spinning out of control.

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The Damned King

‘The Damned King:’ A Book Review

August 19, 2025August 18, 2025Robin Brooks

Book 3 of ‘The Eidyn Saga’ has arrived. ‘The Damned King’ might just be the saga’s ‘Empire Strikes Back!’ It’s another great volume in this excellent fantasy series.

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Stack Overflow: Fabulous Fiction

Stack Overflow: Fabulous Fiction

August 18, 2025August 18, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack: some great fiction!

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Mania by Lionel Shriver

‘Mania’ by Lionel Shriver: A Book Review

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Mania’ by Lionel Shriver imagines a world where it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of intelligence.

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Learn to Draw and Have Lots of Fun With These Two Books

August 4, 2025Mariana Ruiz

These two books are a great way to end your summer.

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Stack Overflow: 5 Books for July

July 28, 2025July 24, 2025Mariana Ruiz

Nonfiction books, picture books and a middle grade novel.

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The Ellyrian Code front cover

‘The Ellyrian Code:’ A Book Review

July 20, 2025July 18, 2025Robin Brooks

‘The Ellyrian Code’ by B.F. Peterson is the first book in an training academy fantasy that features dragons and political intrigue.

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Stack Overflow: Tripping Through History

July 14, 2025July 13, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack: time travel books about visiting the past!

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Cruise Ship Kid

‘Cruise Ship Kid’ by Emma Swan: A Book Review

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Cruise Ship Kid: Thief at Sea’ is a find detective novel set onboard holiday cruise ship. With a unique voice and fun interactive pages, the book is a perfect kids’ summer read.

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The Last Pebble by Alex Horne Cover

‘The Last Pebble’ by Alex Horne: A Book Review

July 9, 2025July 9, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Taskmaster’s’ Alex Horne has written his first children’s novel and it’s a delightful seaside story about the importance of family and friendship.

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Stack Overflow: Old Haunts

Stack Overflow: Revisiting Old Haunts

July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stacks: sequels and books from a series!

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Front Cover of Paved With Good Intentions by Peter Mclean

‘Paved With Good Intentions:’ A Book Review

June 24, 2025June 24, 2025Robin Brooks

Peter McLean is back with “Paved With Good Intentions” with his trademark elements of shades of grey and tricky decisions, he’s delivered another excellent fantasy novel.

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Deepen Your Painting Skills This Summer With This Book!

June 21, 2025June 20, 2025Mariana Ruiz

Gouache is a very forgiving medium.

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Kill Them With Kindness

‘Kill Them With Kindness by Will Carver:’ A Book Review

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Kill Them With Kindness’ by Will Carver pictures a world where a deadly pandemic meets a toxic dust cloud.

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‘The Betrayal of Thomas True:’ A Book Review

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025Robin Brooks

‘The Betrayal of Thomas True’ is a captivating gothic novel with multi-layered secrets and hidden identities lurking on every page.

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Stack Overflow: 3 Books for June

June 16, 2025June 4, 2025Mariana Ruiz

Two picture books and a classic comic strip.

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Supa Nova by Chante Timothy Graphic Novel Cover

‘Supa Nova’ by Chanté Timothy: A Book Review

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Supa Nova’ by Chanté Timothy is a fun grpahic novel for young middle grade readers that aims to entice them to discover the joys of science

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Christopher Edge's Escape Room Game Zero book cover

‘Escape Room: Game Zero’ A Book Review

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025Robin Brooks

Christopher Edge returns to the ‘Escape Room’ with ‘Game Zero.’ Eden finds herself inside a computer game. She needs to defeat challenges and puzzles to escape, but what if she dies inside the game?

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Choose Your Own Evolution Front Cover

‘Choose Your Own Evolution:’ A Book Review

June 6, 2025June 5, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Choose Your Own Evolution’ offers an irresistible journey of natural selection. A multi-pathway book where YOU make the decisions and find out what sort of creature you’ve become!

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Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky

‘Bee Speaker’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky: A Book Review

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Bee Speaker’ is the third novel in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s excellent ‘Dogs of War’ series. Once again a thrilling and thought-inducing read.

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Stack Overflow: Here We Go Again

Stack Overflow: Here We Go Again

June 2, 2025June 2, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack is about time travel. Wait, didn’t that just happen last week? Maybe you’re stuck in a time loop.

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Stack Overflow: Portals to the Past

Stack Overflow: Portals to the Past

May 26, 2025May 25, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

If I’m going to finish all the time travel books in my queue, I’ll need a time machine!

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Malevolent 8 Front Cover

‘The Malevolent Eight:’ A Book Review

May 22, 2025May 21, 2025Robin Brooks

‘The Malevolent Eight’ is the sequel to Sebastien de Castell’s ‘The Malevolent Seven’ and once agin delivers wise-cracking anti-hero hijinks!

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Kawaii is Back in Style With These Two Books

May 20, 2025May 19, 2025Mariana Ruiz

A classic and a new title give us the cute vibes.

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‘Then There Was One:’ A Book Review

May 20, 2025May 19, 2025Robin Brooks

Mix Agatha Christie with ‘The Hunger Games’ and you get ‘Then There Was One’ by Wendy Cross, a smart SciFi thriller for Young Adult readers.

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Stack Overflow: 6 Books for May

May 19, 2025May 13, 2025Mariana Ruiz

These books have all a very distinct quality.

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Epic Factopia Cover

‘Epic Factopia!:’ A Book Review

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025Robin Brooks

‘Factopia’ is back, and this time it’s EPIC! It contains 400 hundred whopping great facts for children to marvel at, all linked in a continuous chain.

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Stack Overflow: Alien Intelligence

Stack Overflow: Alien Intelligence

May 12, 2025May 11, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

What happens when we encounter minds that are quite different from our own?

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