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#133 — October 4, 2019 • Featured Author • Newsworthy • Adult Nonficon • Adult Ficon • Graphic Novels • Youth Nonficon • Youth Ficon

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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 futurisc, 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 situaons and nonstop adventure, resulng in a high-energy, high-stakes story that examines complicated, emoonal relaonships as well as the moral complexies 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 subtle for this detailed, somemes obscure, and, yes, tangled look at the corrupon Abramson finds as he tries to put 's foreign-policy efforts into an understandable package. He begins with secret meengs in 2015 that he dubs "The Red Sea Conspiracy"—meengs that involved the , , and Egypt, among others.

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