Change Agent – Daniel Suarez

About the Book On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle— and his transformation begins. . . .  In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol’s most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform “vanity edits” on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures…

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A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers

About the Book Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s…

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COVER REVEAL | The Infernal Battalion – Django Wexler

Dear readers, I am incredibly excited to delight you with a cover reveal. Django Wexler is an author who, in my mind, has revitalized epic fantasy. He’s blazed his own trail with a series that is long, detailed, and surprising. I’ve recently been rereading the whole thing, and I have fallen in love with it…

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April has sucked.

I’ve really had one hell of a month. Things started out well enough. I met with a pain management doctor who not only is very reluctant to prescribe medication (which is why I was really afraid to go to a pain management clinic. I was afraid they’d throw Percocet down my throat until I was…

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SPFBO | The Grey Bastards – Jonathan French

About the Book LIVE IN THE SADDLE. DIE ON THE HOG. Such is the creed of the half-orcs dwelling in the Lot Lands. Sworn to hardened brotherhoods known as hoofs, these former slaves patrol their unforgiving country astride massive swine bred for war. They are all that stand between the decadent heart of noble Hispartha…

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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich – Norman Ohler

About the Book A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany’s all-consuming reliance on drugs. The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World…

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Pill City – Kevin Deutsch

NOTE: I wrote a glowing review of this book and then someone sent me this link, regarding a controversy I wasn’t aware of. This book may be complete fabricated crap, which really pisses me off, however, it’s already online so I figured I’d keep it there with the link and a note where my absolute…

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The Romanovs – Simon Sebag Montefiore

About the Book The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched…

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