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The Bookbinder’s Secret The Library of Alexandria — Book One At the height of the Library of Alexandria’s power, knowledge is sacred — and dangerously fragile. Callimachus Ariston, Master Librarian of the greatest repository of learning the world has ever known, believes truth is preserved through precision. Every scroll copied, every binding sealed, every word preserved exactly as it was written. Until a mistake appears. A single altered word in a newly bound scroll leads Ariston into the bindery wing—where glue, ink, and quiet labor hide something far more unsettling than error....

Second Life By Errin Stowell Grayson Shaw built an empire on control. Billionaire. Visionary. Relentless dealmaker. At sixty-five, he still believes the rules of risk, leverage, and victory apply everywhere—even on a mountain. He’s wrong. A catastrophic skiing accident leaves Grayson’s body shattered and his mind trapped in a silent coma. Doctors call it “no evidence of consciousness.” Machines keep him breathing. The world assumes the man who dominated boardrooms across continents is gone. But Grayson is still here. Somehow, impossibly, his consciousness can slip into the bodies ...

Cheyenne Frontier Days should have been Jace Rourke's shining moment. As the booming voice of the West, he commands arenas and stirs the crowd with every call—until his voice gives out mid-ride, leaving him humiliated and fighting for his career. Enter Callie Benton, a sharp-witted speech coach with boots, grit, and a past she doesn’t like to talk about. Tasked with saving Jace’s voice before the finals, she throws him into a crash course of breathing drills, tongue-twisters, and late-night balcony confessions. Sparks fly in and out of the arena, but neither expected the rodeo to ...

HOUSE RULES When the mob sets its sights on a Native-owned casino in Kansas City, Kansas it expects an easy takeover—intimidation, bribery, and blood money disguised as business. What it doesn’t expect is three sisters. As the Wyandotte Nation prepares to host a high-stakes gambling championship, outside money moves in and old threats resurface. Fires burn. Lines are crossed. And the tribe’s sovereignty is tested from within and without. Dani Whitefeather knows the law. Maya Whitefeather knows the numbers. Reese Whitefeather knows how to fight. Bound by blood and legacy, the sisters ...

MANITOU RISING In the winter forests of 17th-century Huron Country, sickness spreads like a curse. Children whisper in voices not their own. Bodies twist, bleed, and break without cause. The elders fear disease—but Waban, a respected Wendat (Huron) shaman, knows the truth is far worse. Something ancient has crossed into the living world. A spirit that does not belong to this land. As the tribe fractures under fear and the pressures of the lucrative fur trade, a Jesuit priest arrives with fire and scripture, convinced the Devil hides behind every native rite. To Father LeClair, salvation ...

The Calling By Errin Stowell Eli Cooper has spent his life running from a truth he never asked for. As an FBI agent, his uncanny ability to see crimes before they happen has made him invaluable—and deeply unsettled. As a child, those same abilities nearly trapped him inside the Fold, a secretive, religious sect that believed Eli was destined to become its next spiritual Seer. He fled instead, leaving behind his father, his faith, and a calling he refused to accept. Then Eli’s ten-year-old half-brother, Caleb—quiet, brilliant, and showing signs of the same terrifying gift—vanishes ...

THE SILENT COVEK After years of war and wandering, Sanel Nikolić comes home to St. Louis carrying more scars than luggage. A Marine veteran and Bosnian Orthodox Serb, he returns to settle his grandmother’s estate—only to find himself pulled back into a tight-knit immigrant community he barely recognizes… and one he never truly left behind. At a neighborhood brewhaus, Sanel locks eyes with Lubjana Kovačević—intelligent, strong-willed, and bound by traditions that refuse to bend easily. Their attraction is instant. Their path forward is anything but. Standing between them is Petar,...

"Minnesota Nice" doesn't apply to COVET NOT, the Samuel Sparks series debut set in the Twin Cities. A killer with a disturbing fetish has his sights set on Gina Simmons, a local television reporter, who goes missing.Samuel Sparks, a solo attorney, becomes the main suspect in the disappearance of Gina, who happens to be his girlfriend. Sparks investigates Gina's disappearance on his own, butting up against a dogged detective and some of the Twin Cities' seedier elements.Will Sparks find out the truth before it's too late for Gina?

THE SPIRIT MASK History has teeth. And it’s hungry. Deep in the Florida Everglades, a ritual murder signals the return of an ancient reckoning. The symbols etched into the victim’s skin are Seminole war marks—used only when a sacred betrayal has occurred. Elan Osceola, a reluctant spiritual tracker who is a descendant of the famed Osceola, feels the land shift beneath his feet. His ancestor's name whispers in the cypress shadows. The past is no longer content to remain buried. When the stolen death mask of Osceola resurfaces, descendants of his betrayers begin to die—each killing ...

The Dead Sea Conspiracy Buried in the caves of Qumran, a forgotten scroll hides more than prophecy—it conceals a formula born of desperation, a weapon crafted from desert fungi that can rot flesh in hours. For two millennia, sectarians, zealots, and scribes swore oaths to keep it hidden. Now, after a break-in at the Shrine of the Book, archaeologist Dr. Rachel Adler finds herself entangled in a deadly hunt. Her mentor is murdered, fragments vanish, and whispers of “the eagle’s fall” resurface in the modern Middle East. Pursued by mercenaries, shadowed by Mossad, and courted by a ...

What if you inherited the memories of your ancestors? What if those memories were destroying your life? Meet Clive Holcomb, a desperate young man, suffering from nightmares in which he sees himself as the perpetrator of horrific murders, none of which he actually committed. How far is he willing to go to discover the truth behind the nightmares? If you enjoy the BookShots of James Patterson then give this FastRead Thriller a try.

In the future, the Judicial Technology System determines the merits of court cases. John Cargill, a law student, finds out first hand how important it is to defend one's legal rights.

They mocked him with his mother’s name. Loki Gardsdottir—the outcast, the fatherless, the cursed. What began as an insult becomes a scar that will not fade, a prophecy whispered by ravens, and a destiny carved into rune stones older than kings. With only a band of scarred outcasts at his side, Loki fights to survive battles, betrayals, and the cruel laughter of jarls who see him as nothing more than a joke. But when fire blazes from ancient runes and crows circle overhead, men begin to whisper that perhaps the gods themselves have marked him. In a world of frost and steel, where mockery...

1931. Vermont’s northern border. A quiet bay where families live by water, work by hand, and measure worth by survival—not by theory. When a state-sanctioned Eugenics study arrives in Missisquoi Bay, it brings polished language, scientific certainty, and a promise of “public good.” What it truly brings is judgment—deciding who is fit to exist and whose future must be erased. Henry Jenkins, a celebrated academic and architect of the program, believes he is saving society from itself. His daughter Ella believes him—until she begins interviewing the people behind the statistics. ...

The Buddha Protocol When the Buddha died in the 5th century BCE, his relics were divided among kingdoms. But one group of monks stole away with a secret too dangerous to share—a tooth hidden inside an ivory reliquary, containing a coded palm-leaf scroll. Within it lay more than prophecy. It held the design for a weapon: a resonant bronze gong capable of killing without a blade. Centuries later, at Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth, UNESCO investigator Maya Sen oversees a cultural audit during the sacred Esala Perahera festival. When the reliquary vanishes in the night, Maya discovers the ...