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FEATURED AUTHOR: NATALIE C. PARKER Mad Max meets Davy Jones in Steel Tide, the second entry in Parker's YA trilogy. In a futuris c, seafaring world, Caledonia loses her all-female crew to a warlord, so she decides to rescue her friends and annihilate her enemy's fleet once and for all. As Caledonia fearlessly sets upon her task, she encounters perilous situa ons and nonstop adventure, resul ng in a high-energy, high-stakes story that examines complicated, emo onal rela onships as well as the moral complexi es of war. While readers anxiously await the trilogy's final book, they should try Nicole Castroman's Blacksouls, Bryony Pearce's Phoenix Rising, or Parker's other tles, listed Steel Tide below. By Natalie C. Parker Seafire
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Proof of Conspiracy By Seth Abramson
"Oh what a tangled web we weave . . ." might be the sub tle for this detailed, some mes obscure, and, yes, tangled look at the corrup on Abramson finds as he tries to put Donald Trump's foreign-policy efforts into an understandable package. He begins with secret mee ngs in 2015 that he dubs "The Red Sea Conspiracy"—mee ngs that involved the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, among others.
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