The Second World - a satirical sci-fi book by Jake Korell

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It's only a short 225-million kilometer, nine-month trip to the Martian biosphere in author’s satirical sci-fi “The Second World” (Feb 24, 2026).

Debut author Jake Korell takes readers to a newly sovereign Mars—where bureaucracy, ego, and generational divides run as deep as the Martian ice. When Flip Buchanan, the reluctant son of the most powerful man on the Red Planet, stumbles through two tumultuous decades of alien discoveries, killer clones, and interplanetary conflict, he discovers that building a new world isn't so different from ruining the old one. 

After a decade of working in Hollywood on shows like Arrested Development and a project with Danny DeVito and Jeff Goldblum, Korell dusted off an old TV pilot and adapted it into his first novel. The result is a darkly funny, irreverent satire about American history, political and media spectacle, and the human urge to make a finite life matter in an infinite universe. The Second World blends the wit and worldbuilding of Andy Weir and John Scalzi with the biting social commentary of Kurt Vonnegut and Matt Haig. It's a speculative coming-of-age story for our era of misinformation, memes, and misplaced idealism—equal parts hilarious and heartfelt. 

More about the book: Mars has declared its independence from Earth. But founding a new nation takes more than a flag, an anthem, and naming a donkey the national animal. In this satirical space epic about power, legacy, and culture, The Second World needles the myth of progress and legacy with humor, heart, and a little bit of sci-fi madness. As Mars fights to define itself, Flip Buchanan learns that the hardest part of independence—personal or planetary—is figuring out what to do with it. 

Quinto's Challenge - a science fiction novel by Peter McChesney

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For fans of Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, and The Three-Body Problem comes a bold, futuristic, genre-bending debut challenging the conventions of religion, science, and political power.

On the 100th anniversary of JFK’s challenge to land a man on the Moon, visionary US President Vince Quinto challenges America with an even more audacious goal: to conquer death itself before the century is out by making human resurrection a scientific reality.

As the 21st century draws to a close, advances in genetics, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence converge to make Quinto’s Challenge possible. The final breakthrough—hailed as the Theory of Everything—is made by Deeley Carr, a young, shy quantum physicist recruited to work on a top-secret US government project.

However, those privy to this highly classified science realize that the power to bring about immortality doesn’t just open a Pandora’s box of ethical and existential questions, it is a double-edged sword—if it falls into the wrong hands, it would become the ultimate weapon of surveillance and control.

Quinto’s Challenge is the first book in the Dawn of Immortality series, a sweeping science fiction epic that introduces the ethical, political, and human questions that emerge when humanity attempts to conquer death. An unmissable debut that raises unsettling questions about the future of humanity. 

Anthrax to Zodiac - A Snarky PI Delves into the Most Notorious Unsolved Mysteries of the Past 150 Years by Denise Diana Huddle

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Reeling from the devastation of 9/11, Americans anxiously waited for the other shoe to drop. Then the anthrax letters came, branded by the FBI as the worst biological attacks in US history. Despite a lengthy and expensive investigation, no suspect was ever charged.

Six hours after Patsy Ramsey called the Boulder police and frantically reported that her daughter had been kidnapped, on the day after Christmas, 1996, JonBenét Ramsey’s father cried out from the basement of their home and emerged from the stairs carrying the corpse of his six-year-old daughter, launching one of the most notorious murder investigations of modern times. Twenty-seven years after the crime, no one has ever been tried for the murder.

In the summer of 1969, as the first astronaut stepped on the moon and 350,000 Americans flocked to Woodstock, the Zodiac killer terrorized California residents, claiming his murder victims would be his slaves in the afterlife. Despite one of the longest-running investigations in the state’s history, the killer has never been identified.

On January 15, 1947, the body of the woman called the Black Dahlia was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The corpse had been cut in two at the waist, eviscerated, and drained of blood. The search for her killer morphed into one of the most extensive homicide investigations in the history of the LAPD. In spite of thousands of leads and multiple confessions, the murder of Elizabeth Short has never been solved. Or has it?

Twenty-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from the nursery of the New Jersey home of his parents, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, on March 1, 1932. When the baby’s nurse discovered the child was missing, Charles Lindbergh summoned the police, launching the investigation into the crime of the century. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and executed for the murder of the baby, but did Hauptmann act alone? Or could he have been aided by Charles Lindbergh himself?

On August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were found dead of multiple head wounds inflicted by a sharp-edged hacking instrument. After the inquest into their deaths, Andrew Borden's eldest daughter, Lizzie, was indicted for the murders. Lizzie Borden was tried for the crimes and acquitted. No other suspect was ever charged, and the murders remain unsolved. So, we may never really know if Lizzie Borden took an axe...

Journey back through time from 2001 to 1892 as veteran PI Denise Diana Huddle brings her field-hone investigative skills and trademark snark to her in-depth examination of seven of America’s mot notorious unsolved mysteries.
From A to Z, Huddle lays out the events and evidence, identifies patterns, and tests theories. As disturbing details of the mysteries that have haunted America over the last century are revealed, the cases you thought you knew may not be so clear-cut after all.

You be the judge...Who did it?

WHEN LOVE RETURNS - a small town, second chance romance by Judythe Morgan

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Can love truly come home again—or are some first loves meant to remain in the past?

Becca Fitzpatrick fell in love with Ethan Wells at five. At eight, he proposed. At seventeen, he vanished—without explanation—and shattered her heart.

Twelve years later, he’s back. But he’s no longer the small-town boy she knew. Now he’s Ethan LaMotte, a polished, world-traveled Parisian executive with a new name, a sophisticated life, and one unwavering truth: he never stopped loving her.

Becca, however, isn’t the same girl he left behind. Rooted in her Texas hometown, surrounded by her close-knit family, and devoted to her students, she’s built a steady, meaningful life. She’s learned hard lessons about trust, and she’s certain her heart is safer without him.

Ethan believes some things are worth crossing oceans for and determined to prove that the past doesn’t have to define their future. But winning Becca back won’t be easy. Old wounds still ache, unanswered questions linger, and forgiveness demands more courage than either of them expected. 

Psychic Echoes: Mary Jameson Book 2: A Supernatural Thriller by J.P. Alters

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Mary Jameson communicates with the dead but craves a normal life away from her paranormal past. However, when Detective Jay Santiago seeks her psychic abilities to locate a missing boy, Mary is pulled back into the supernatural realm. Facing immense danger, she must decide if rescuing the boy is worth risking her own life.

"Both a thrilling and heartbreaking tale of found family, love, sacrifice and the consequences of our choices."

the moment we met was a lie - Volume 1 by Kari Wiethop

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A restless woman gets recruited into a collective of misfits who cater to their wealthy clients’ requests. Perfect for anyone seeking a fresh take on romance with a side of black comedy.

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The Red Road - A historical fiction set in 1930s Maine by J.E. McCarthy

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There is no greater duty than family.

If your brother was murdered on a dark dirt road, would you wait for justice?

When teenager Jim McGinn is killed on a dark Maine road, the police want to call it an accident, but the facts don't add up. Jim is a middle child of twelve children to a widow in depression era Maine. When his older brothers and extended family begin an investigation of their own, they soon find themselves at odds with the most powerful family in the county.  

Parker Moreland is the richest man in the county. Not only because he owns more land than everyone else, but because he is the biggest bootlegger in central Maine. In 1933, prohibition is coming to an end and the last thing he needs is an investigation to hamper his operations.  

Mary McGinn lost her husband with a brood of twelve children from teenagers to infants. She and the oldest boys have done their best to keep the farm alive during the midst of the great depression. But now she has to do the unthinkable and bury a child. In her mind, she wants to turn the other cheek, but in her heart, she knows that will never happen.

The Red Road pits rich against poor in a search for justice, but beyond that, it tests the limits of conscience when ordinary people are forced into extraordinary situations. Only the power of family will bring justice for Jim in book one of the McGinn Family Saga.